Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.
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great masters, is this, that they... JOSEPH ADDISON I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a c... MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV I want people to be the authors of their own life story. MICHAEL GOVE Our conference is focused on helping authors be more successful in selling their books. Although Inf... TOM GREGORY Winning the Guardian prize is a wonderful reward for any writer. It is such a distinguished award, .... JACQUELINE WILSON Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n... J. SWARTZ Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n... WILLIAM STYRON The Americans are certainly hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes... OSCAR WILDE They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who a... KANWALJEET ANAND They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who a... KANWALJEET ANAND Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the le... ORSON SCOTT CARD It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic t... JESMYN WARD People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was n... AZAR NAFISI Physicians must be free to make clinical determinations, in accordance with medical standards of car... MARIA CANTWELL It evolved that any child we could take out of institutionalized care, while waiting for adoption, c... JUDY ELKINS It is totally incomprehensible as how a filmmaker can cast a female actor taller than a male actor t... ANUJ SOMANY Indie authors write, design, sell. Like magic, skip one and you make must read vanish. TEMPLE EMMET WILLIAMS Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarett... SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point. GEORGE DENNISON PRENTICE Speakers, coaches, consultants, thought-leaders, experts, and authors who dedicate their professiona... SUSAN C. YOUNG If all superheroines were as indestructible as Superman, leaping across rooftops, smashing through w... MIKE MADRID They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scient... KANWALJEET ANAND They have literally stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scient... KANWALJEET ANAND They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scient... KANWALJEET ANAND The authors, and the disciplined volunteers following the practice of caloric restriction, are to be... DR. GARY GERSTENBLITH I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a c... JAMES HERRIOT I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident w... MINDY KALING I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And ... JAMES PATTERSON Fetishizing is the norm for males, not for females. ROBERT STOLLER Though Charles II both craved and enjoyed female companionship till the end of his life, there is no... ANTONIA FRASER Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualificati... GEORGE ELIOT Everyone thinks if you fix a male dog it will lower his aggression, but most of the biters are femal... MINDY MCGINNIS I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands ... REESE WITHERSPOON I'm not bald... I'm just taller than my hair CLIVE ANDERSON Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family... AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER The faculty are our authors, and they are the enabler of the ideas. DEIRDRE WOODS All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what ... SHAKIRA We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience... IHAB HASSAN Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed... M. J. ROSE Habits of close attention, thinking heads,
Become more rare as dissipation spreads,
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