Maria Shriver
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RACHEL SKARSTEN DIANE SETTERFIELD JOYCE CAROL OATES ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO CHIP CONLEY I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and an... STEVEN R. MCQUEEN LAURA DERN DON RICKLES When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories thr... NINA ARIANDA RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me... EVE BUNTING I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed u... RACHEL SKLAR Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?&#... RAELYNN I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. Tha... SHARON CREECH When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most mem... 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On Saturdays, I'm at my kids' games and I... BETH MARSHALL 'Harry Potter' changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mother... AIMEE CARTER BARBARA CORCORAN I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,... ERIC DICKERSON It was weird to get my first at-bat before I pitched my first inning. That helped me relax. I was ju... PAUL MAHOLM I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an... ANDRE AGASSI I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my po... GEORGE MURRAY TONY KUSHNER DOROTHY HAMILL EMILY DICKINSON I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented... JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE CAROLYN KIZER I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many... KIM GORDON I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som... MARGO JEFFERSON I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poe... PAULA MCLAIN EUGENE IONESCO DOUGLAS BRUNT CHELSEA CLINTON SANDRA CISNEROS CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY Seize the Night , the sequel to my novel Fear Nothing , o... DEAN KOONTZ RICHARD FORD I was definitely a tomboy. My mother liked to dress me differently, but it was her loss when I came ... TROIAN BELLISARIO GARY JOHNSON I have children, and they demand my full and complete attention. They get that when I'm at home,... ESSIE DAVIS My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. ... CHRISTOPHER JUDGE When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophica... BARRY MCGUIRE I call my tiki bar my tiki office, even though I also entertain out here all the time. This beautifu... MICHELLE PHILLIPS CARRIE FISHER KIP MOORE My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me ab... CANDACE CAMP PAT CONROY When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to... RACHEL BLOOM JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER MAYER HAWTHORNE WALTER DEAN MYERS Most of the time I played by myself. Even then I was a loner, and I have stayed a loner all my life.... ROY WILKINS TINA FEY PATTI SMITH Oh, I laugh hard every day. I mean, my husband is Will Smith! I'm telling you, that's one of... JADA PINKETT SMITH MICHELLE OBAMA I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduc... RASHID JOHNSON ISLA FISHER The act of exercising at 6 A.M. really helped me. It made me not dread the workout part of my day al... MARISSA JARET WINOKUR JENNIFER GARNER Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and wha... KASKADE IYANLA VANZANT I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs ever... MIKE HUCKABEE YUVRAJ SINGH JUNOT DIAZ RANBIR KAPOOR They (fellow inmates) were there for me and helped me out when I was in there, ... But it was a bad ... EDDIE GRIFFIN LOUIE GIGLIO ALICE WALKER WALTER MOSLEY
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It is the realization that any opinion is valuable,... SARGENT SHRIVER It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant. SARGENT SHRIVER Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later. SARGENT SHRIVER LIONEL SHRIVER LIONEL SHRIVER If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigi... SARGENT SHRIVER Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in h... SARGENT SHRIVER The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about i... SARGENT SHRIVER When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should... SARGENT SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER LIONEL SHRIVER Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disa... MARK SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and chari... SARGENT SHRIVER If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. SARGENT SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER SAIOM SHRIVER LIONEL SHRIVER LIONEL SHRIVER LIONEL SHRIVER LIONEL SHRIVER LIONEL SHRIVER LIONEL SHRIVER LIONEL SHRIVER LIONEL SHRIVER LIONEL SHRIVER LIONEL SHRIVER You grab one or two cookies without even thinking about it. Or if you have something bad in the morn... ALANA SHRIVER I'd still like to lose about 20 pounds, but I feel like I'm a whole new person. ALANA SHRIVER I think they knew it was tough being a fat kid in school. They tried to help me lose the weight, but... 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I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my b... 
For almost every novel I've written, I've read the daily newspaper of the time almost as if ... 
I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for al... 
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of... 
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy ... 
It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wro... 
From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even wh... 
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reade... 
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time ... 
'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would t... 
Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a t... 
My life is scattered and busy. I think of my home as a resort. When I step through the door, I feel ... 
My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She'... 
My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolw... 
My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them. 
I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my siste... 
Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least o... 
Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're hav... 
Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. I... 
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stu... 
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My... 
I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and ev... 
My parents opened a bank account for me when I was really little, and I think I paid for some of my ... 
In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagn... 
My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was readin... 
I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the f... 
I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. M... 
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.... 
I began writing poems when I was about eight, with a heavy assist from my mother. She read me Arthur... 
When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class... 
The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gol... 
And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wond... 
I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jo... 
I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to... 
In August of 1998, I completed Seize the Night, the sequel to my novel Fear Nothing, o... 
For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I ha... 
I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for every... 
What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because i... 
I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reck... 
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to be... 
I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going thr... 
I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a l... 
I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She gra... 
For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it w... 
My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she&... 
My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys ... 
My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I'd find it easy to be a w... 
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about fin... 
In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was ... 
I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She ... 
It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing... 
I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career... 
But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the... 
My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. 
When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the las... 
I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own person... 
No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you'... 
I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has toug... 
We have nothing to offer
you.. say the cows of
their gravy.. but our
blood, sweat, and tears.
(cows'... 
Sunwands turn rain droplets
into blackberry drupelets
as enkindled okra seeds
acknowledge heliocr... 
War profiteer cartels
and the Cheney Wolfowitz regime
are called The United States
by warwhore news ... 
A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed re... 
I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its to... 
I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common co... 
Alec Issignois said a camel was a horse
made by a committee.. but a camel is an animal created by
... 
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurr... 
Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special ... 
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Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. T... 
Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with peopl... 
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. 
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Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding. 
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. 
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m... 
The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ... 
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. 
Nature knows best, and she says, roar! 
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. 
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. 
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Not having an administrator sends the wrong message to the airline industry. 
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