There are consumer shows like this all over the country, usually held in a single venue. Here, we're familiar with scrapbook conventions, like at the South Towne Expo Center, that draw about 13,000 people. Houston has a national quilting festival for one week in October, and it brings in 150,000 women from around the world.


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All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I de...
JO NESBO
Yorkshire folk are not fools: talk about devolving power to cities and regions, while simultaneously...
JO COX
'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that ...
JO NESBO
I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.
JO COX
I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson -...
JO NESBO
Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.
JO BRAND
As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming ...
JO BONNER
People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn'...
JO BRAND
I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else ...
JO COX
I shut my eyes and concentrated on the sun, and on feeling it warm my skin. On pleasure. Hedon. The ...
JO NESBø
The hard part is putting one word after another.
JO LINSDELL
Can you believe that just last weekend I was at my prom?! ... And now here I am with a record deal a...
ERIKA JO
I guess you guys aren't going to hear this next song, but it's the it's going to be the next single ...
ERIKA JO
It was kind of bitter sweet for me. He wanted to be there. He wanted a record deal. But in a way he ...
ERIKA JO
It's been crazy, but a good crazy. I wouldn't have had it any other way. I recorded the album and pu...
ERIKA JO
Gwen: It's not going to work.
Paul: Pardon me?
Gwen: Cinderella's not going to sleep with ...
JO LEIGH
in order to isolate what was possible, you had to eliminate everything that was impossible
JO NESBø
I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.
JO WALTON
Reason lives in the head, and faith in the heart. They're not always good neighbours.
JO NESBø
Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary.
JO WALTON
1 tatty old man in jeans—what was he thinking? Jeans are for young people.
JO WALTON
Marry me he said voice full of emotion. Be my soul mate my friend and my lover as long as we both li...
JO DAVIS
Are you dying?"
Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry.
JO NESBø
But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we...
JO NESBø
Telephone conversations are so inadequate, so lacking in expression and gesture and everything.
JO WALTON
We are grateful to Tony Riley for his dedication and hard work and look forward to his continuing co...
JO MAJOR
As we exit our corporate restructuring, we are pleased to introduce a series of innovative new produ...
JO MAJOR
Gross margins improved for the fourth consecutive quarter and are up 13 percentage points from the s...
JO MAJOR
We now run a parallel orientation for parents. They get to meet (Principal) Juan Rodriguez, and the ...
JO LEWIS
They can establish relationships right from the start.
JO LEWIS
This presents an opportunity to explore the building, find their way around. It helps them make the ...
JO LEWIS
I think it ran really smoothly.
JO LAMARCHE
A lot of people are just waiting to see how this works with Burlington.
JO LAMARCHE
As soon as somebody gets to 50 percent, it stops.
JO LAMARCHE
I'm never going to leave the stage. I love the instant, immediate reaction. It's my home.
JO KOY
That's one thing I pride myself on, that I'm Asian. All I really know is my Asian heritage.
JO KOY
That's my man right there. He really took my comedy to the next level. I think it was a sense of urg...
JO KOY