When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle.


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When I have lost all my illusions I search for them
GIOVANNI BOINE
The first priority of all concerned was maintaining operations at Heathrow with 35 percent less fuel...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the ...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
Airports take their own commercial decisions on their ownership structure. But this must not be at t...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI
On the first or second pitch of the inning, I landed on my (left) heel instead of my toes in the del...
GIOVANNI CARRARA
You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
NIKKI GIOVANNI
Black love is black wealth
NIKKI GIOVANNI
I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and w...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same ...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without gu...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three p...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick peopl...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
NIKKI GIOVANNI
It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
NIKKI GIOVANNI
I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I d...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm tak...
GIOVANNI RIBISI
I am because someone dreams me; a man who sleeps and dreams and sees me acting, living and moving –...
GIOVANNI PAPINI
If we reach our target of 100 percent for worldwide electronic ticketing in 2007, then the airline i...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI
She sounds extremely creative, in that she turned historical figures into mythical figures. Obviousl...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
His headstone said "Free at last, Free at last" - But death is a slave's freedom - We seek the freed...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
Sometimes hypocrisy is found in the least expected places. But always in abundance
GIOVANNI COLLAZO
All that we've had, all that we have, and all that will be ours will be lost. If not during our life...
GIOVANNI COLLAZO
When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a ...
GIOVANNI GUARESCHI
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
Don't let others change your ways; only better them.
GIOVANNI JOUBERT
I am because someone dreams me; a man who sleeps and dreams and sees me acting, living and moving �...
GIOVANNI PAPINI
You that have said and done consciously or unconsciously good and bad things that you have to people...
GIOVANNI COLLAZO
You are who you are. people can either take it, or leave it. Never should you help people in any way...
GIOVANNI COLLAZO
I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk ...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
We are filling the planes-and with high load factors-but there is a lot to do before the industry's ...
GIOVANNI BISIGNANI
don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
NIKKI GIOVANNI
I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what t...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can sk...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
GIOVANNI FALCONE
La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
NIKKI GIOVANNI
We love because it's the only true adventure
NIKKI GIOVANNI
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
NIKKI GIOVANNI
There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick peopl...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
NIKKI GIOVANNI
It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner
GIOVANNI GUARESCHI
There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love
GIOVANNI PAPINI
He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with hi...
GIOVANNI FALCONE
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism ...
NIKKI GIOVANNI
Există ceva dincolo de reprezentare? Cunoașterea e o fereastră demnă de încredere spre real, sa...
GIOVANNI PAPINI
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienc...
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowin...
GIOVANNI RIBISI
The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That ma...
NIKKI GIOVANNI