Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.


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Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty mug--rain splatters on dry window pane--open jou...
VAL UCHENDU
Faced with delicate issue, consider kindness and deference. It's neither familiarity, indifference n...
VAL UCHENDU
Success is the ability to turn a pickle, a bump or an epic failure into an opportunity for success
VAL UCHENDU
An artist must take comfort that there's no satisfaction whatsoever with one's creation, just a diss...
VAL UCHENDU
To embody a slice of life on stage/film/script/book is awe-inspiring; like peeking into a window to ...
VAL UCHENDU
Celebrate differences, give love, and more love. Anything short is a rigidity that cuts both ways an...
VAL UCHENDU
Wisdom is the thin conduit between two opposing viewpoints
VAL UCHENDU
Great moments are ephemeral, like a lovely text message or viral twitter moment, but when lived, it'...
VAL UCHENDU
Not like others? You may be inspired differently. Be bold, step out, follow YOUR intuition, no matte...
VAL UCHENDU
There're many ways to inspire others but the goal is the same. The pathways are different and must b...
VAL UCHENDU
The mindset of loss of a loved one is to understand that the loss will never be undone. You must liv...
VAL UCHENDU
Laugh to be refreshed, discover to be surprised, accept and celebrate differences to be happy
VAL UCHENDU
Love is purely spiritual, until you can honestly accept and love your essence and truth, you have no...
VAL UCHENDU
Opportunity must be captured; it only yields to those brave hearts that dare to try
VAL UCHENDU
When an image depends on the next for a complete meaning, it moves the story and audience along with...
VAL UCHENDU
An artist who works from impulse creates pathways for his body and emotion; the lines will naturally...
VAL UCHENDU
Peace of mind comes from keeping people's opinion far away from self perception; one is steady and t...
VAL UCHENDU
Nothing can resist a person who is
nonresistant... When you overcome
negative with posit...
VAL UCHENDU
The earth is always changing...readjusting to our existence. Each era is full of unique challenges
VAL UCHENDU
All art forms possess liberty beyond space and time, yet grounded by urgency of now, and a breath of...
VAL UCHENDU
A society gets the criminals it deserves.
VAL MCDERMID
He's a change of pace pitcher out of the bullpen.
VAL MCLEAN
Brent is a good heads-up player in the outfield. David got a lot of work in a reserve role last year...
VAL MCLEAN
We have 10 students and seniors signed up for the program. Most of the students taking part are girl...
VAL SULLIVAN
You've got to allow kids to be kids. Our discipline will get better; I just wish we didn't have to p...
VAL TRUJILLO
The Glasgow accent was so strong you could have built a bridge with it and known it would outlast th...
VAL MCDERMID
I'm sorry you are wiser, I sorry you are taller; I liked you better foolish and I liked you better s...
ALINE MURRAY KILMER
There's a strange lack of knowledge about the role of drag queens in our culture. I attribute this t...
JOSH KILMER-PURCELL
A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man ...
C. KILMER MYERS
We have relegated the saints to a pink and blue and gold world of plaster statuary that belongs to t...
C. KILMER MYERS
We are content to place a statue of Francis of Assisi in the middle of a birdbath and let the whole ...
C. KILMER MYERS
Blackouts can be fun if approached with the right mindset. You just can't sweat the fact that you've...
JOSH KILMER-PURCELL
To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to tell...
VAL EDWARD SIMONE
We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth t...
VAL EDWARD SIMONE
It seems that THC is creating a historic district without following one legal guideline. It's very, ...
JUDGE VAL BEARD
I am very pleased to tell the crew they did a great job.
JUDGE VAL BEARD
We need to sit down and get some ball-park numbers together and move on.
JUDGE VAL BEARD
My first concern is THC asking us to spend tax dollars on private property. Secondly, I don't think ...
JUDGE VAL BEARD