It was tragic how life had sucked her down to the bones, all her spontaneity her laughter and freedom had vanished. I knew then that I didn't ever want to be like that. Whatever happened, life was something too precious to give up on so easily.


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Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that mome...
JEFFREY BELL
Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is t...
JEFFREY TOOBIN
In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up ...
JEFFREY SACHS
I've been in three sort of... I mean, I'd say they're groundbreaking series, if only bec...
JEFFREY TAMBOR
Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make ...
JEFFREY KLUGER
I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line wor...
JEFFREY BROWN
Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be ...
JEFFREY KLUGER
Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town s...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN
I actually got thrown into my Bar Mitzvah because my teacher, my Cantor, did not tell me that they w...
JEFFREY TAMBOR
I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where t...
JEFFREY KLUGER
I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle,...
JEFFREY TATE
I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater hero...
JEFFREY TAMBOR
Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it....
JEFFREY WRIGHT
If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding...
JEFFREY JONES
When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I ...
JEFFREY SKOLL
Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny,

the way monogamy is funny, the way<...
JEFFREY MCDANIEL
One thing I can give and still keep is my word.
JEFFREY FRY
Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Tr...
JEFFREY FRY
'Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding an...
JEFFREY MONTGOMERY
Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but...
LORD JEFFREY
Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group tha...
JEFFREY KLUGER
There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. ...
JEFFREY KLUGER
Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.
JEFFREY DEITCH
Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.
JEFFREY DEITCH
Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at ...
JEFFREY JONES
Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.
JEFFREY RASLEY
Courtney Vance and I are college classmates, weirdly enough. We're both Harvard class of 1982. C...
JEFFREY TOOBIN
Entrepreneurship does not build character; it reveals character.
JEFFREY FRY
Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.
JEFFREY DEITCH
Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.
JEFFREY FRY
You know that thing where you're trying to do the crossword puzzle, and you're trying to fit...
JEFFREY TAMBOR
At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes...
JEFFREY KLUGER
The Quiet World

In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more, JEFFREY MCDANIEL
We recognize that the typical house built in the 1920s may be smaller than what people want today.
BOB JEFFREY
The scary thing is that over time, as the downtown builds and you start to lose that fabric, once it...
BOB JEFFREY
We'll notify everyone who was signed up.
BOB JEFFREY
After recovering from decades of conflict, Afghanistan needs economic support.
BOB JEFFREY
Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experie...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN
With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challen...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN
Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an ...
JEFFREY KLUGER
A short story can be packed with meaning and impact, with the concentrated density of a collapsed st...
JEFFREY THOMAS
There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.
JEFFREY KLUGER
Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily,...
FRANCIS JEFFREY
A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distrib...
JEFFREY KATZENBERG
But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make ...
JEFFREY ARCHER
At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my ...
JEFFREY ARCHER
As I say, my real interest is in writing.
JEFFREY ARCHER
And so I gave up everything for it - time, energy, research - I dropped everything and so yes False ...
JEFFREY ARCHER
And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a...
JEFFREY ARCHER
Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
JEFFREY ARCHER
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
JEFFREY ARCHER
I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writ...
JEFFREY ARCHER
We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
JEFFREY ARCHER
Our 1999 (U.S.) GDP forecast was cut to 0.7 percent from 1.8 percent,
JEFFREY APPLEGATE
The risk to this new forecast is down, not up.
JEFFREY APPLEGATE
If our outlook is correct, very rich valuations for the best tech stocks will persist, ... Maybe for...
JEFFREY APPLEGATE