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The story is about what happens when you share your heart with somebody else; it is also about the danger of keeping things locked up. Kate DiCamillo
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The subject of a vicious and false attack. Those are the kinds of things people should be looking for and be very careful and concerned about. David Brock
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The 'Talk of the Town' was really that in the 1940s: it was all about New York, it was only about New York, and it was about people. Michael Chabon
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Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain
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Read all you can about it, interview experts on it, even travel to the sites of the story to guarantee authenticity and get a feel for the background. Irving Wallace
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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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During that year while we were waiting to be inducted into federal service, I wrote the first draft of my first novel, Tournament. Shelby Foote
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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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So much of broadcasting hasn't really noticed that Watergate happened, that no one takes the voice of authority seriously anymore. Sarah Vowell
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Sometimes when someone is asking you a question you can become Socratic, and ask them a question, and have them answer their own question for them. Vincent Bugliosi
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere. Jack Vance
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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.
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Conceivably, we could be witnessing the start of a break from the era of US-led globalization in which Washington preached unfettered trade to the rest of the world.
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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade. Leo Buscaglia
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At a time like this, scorching iron, not convincing argument, is needed.
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As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others. Marianne Williamson
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Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before. Joseph Campbell
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This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack. Richard Schickel
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.
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I tried to fit a little humour into it when I thought it was appropriate, but it just gets uglier and uglier as July 4th approaches. Kevin Williamson
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Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies. Daniel Yergin
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As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.
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As to that sensitive child out there, I know they exist, but maybe a good dose of the truth would be a warning for what's waiting. Robert Cormier
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As I said at the BYU conference some years back, we make aliens out of people by treating them as alien, rather than recognizing similarities. Elizabeth Moon
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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