Quotes about american-author
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Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. Harriet Beecher Stowe
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. Sam Levenson
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It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please. Rose Kennedy
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. Mark Twain
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. Oliver Herford
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The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. Tom Bodett
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A more relevant description would be a plateau in production capacity that might be reached in the fourth or fifth decade of this century. Daniel Yergin
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. John Steinbeck
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. John Burroughs
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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So far I've been very lucky in that stories have come to me like a thunderstorm, unexpected, full of darkness and energy demanding all my attention. Russell Banks
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Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off. Steven Brust
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No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style.
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Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.
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A recent survey in Wisconsin found that only 6 percent of citizens believe their elected representatives serve the public interest. William Greider
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Apocalyptic versions are fall-back systems when the normal systems cease to offer effective answers to the dilemmas of existence. Chaim Potok
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Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything.
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As he watched, he had an immovable expression on his face, composed but alert, as if someone were giving him directions to an unknown destination. Jhumpa Lahiri
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As for characters, I think that very little is needed. You just give a hint and the reader will make up the character on his or her own. Harry Mathews
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Oh, and for capturing the wonder and magic of fairy tales and turning that into fresh and modern stories, there is no one around to the Neil Gaiman. Sarah Zettel
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The mutual fund industry has been very successful at promoting itself in this glamorous way. Mutual funds are actually vast, impersonal bureaucratic structures, and yet they were clever enough to give a human face to the mutual funds. Ron Chernow
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The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature. Kenneth Anger
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A few years ago, I had an exhibition at a museum in Holland where, for the very first time, I saw how much Miffy had changed over the years. Dick Bruna
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After leaving college and while working on a newspaper and then on a magazine in New York, I wanted not to lose what Greek I had acquired. Robert Fitzgerald
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin
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ESPN has said that they fired me without having been told to do so by Disney, and I actually believe that. I think they did it on their own. Gregg Easterbrook
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See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.
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Sam Walton knew that he hadn't cornered the market on good ideas and that's why he was constantly reaching out to learn from others. Michael Bergdahl
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Sam Walton encouraged his employees to be entrepreneurial in their thinking and not to limit themselves, in their work, to any one functional area.
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Radio content is never captured and catalogued in a systematic way, so there's no way to hold radio show hosts accountable for their words. David Brock
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.