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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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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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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. William Greider
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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade. Leo Buscaglia
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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. Jack Vance
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The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone. Amy Vanderbilt
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You simply can't have 90 percent of email and phone and fax traffic coming into a newspaper ombudsman from just one ideological perspective. David Brock
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. Sam Levenson
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This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack. Richard Schickel
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They don't teach the "Wal-Mart Way" at Harvard Business School! Michael Bergdahl
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There were hardly any sports for girls when I was growing up, but I loved to race the guys and climb trees and all that sort of stuff.
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It's just I wanted to get myself in a line of work where I didn't have a boss, where I didn't have to show up any place at any particular time.
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It's especially important since September 11 for people to be trained for the unexpected. We want to try to make sure people are safe. Michael Malone
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It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
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It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late. Michael Chabon
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He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head. Jhumpa Lahiri
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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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So, The Quiet Invasion is about the attempt to coexist peacefully with people who have radically different ideas and backgrounds than your own. Sarah Zettel
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Now, I'll say this. I've never taking a course on writing. I've never read a book on writing. This isn't something that would work for me. Nora Roberts
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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.
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I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.
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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.
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
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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.
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The Big Questions, about survival and quality of life, are confronted by all the main characters in The Snow Queen, at some point. Joan D. Vinge
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Australia is the smallest continent, and most of it can support only small human populations because of low rainfall and productivity. Jared Diamond
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often. Oliver Herford
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What I write deals with relationships, with making families. It just follows that I would often write about family and what it means.