The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Jim Rohn
Recitation: by Male by Female
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.
Jerry Saltz
WorkArtPeopleGamePersonRun
Republicans aren't interested in a one-sentence fix unless that sentence is, 'Obamacare is repealed.'
John Barrasso
FixRepublicansInterestedObamacare
I'm an essayist. And this is a genre that has existed for a few thousand years. Ever heard of Cicero? So these rules that I'm working under are not mine but rather were established by writers who recognized the difference between the hard research of journalism and the kind of inquiry of mind that characterizes the essay.
John D'Agata
MindResearchJournalismRulesKind
I think that social media has really empowered bullies because you get to do it from the comfort of your own home, completely anonymously, with no ramifications.
Maysoon Zayid
HomeSocial MediaThinkMediaYou
The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.
John Updike
LightBetterPresenceStarKnowsHe
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Stephen King
ChangeTalentSmartThinkChoose
I'm not good at eating small meals. Some people can sit down and be very disciplined. When I sit down at a meal, I sort of eat everything I can reach. I know medical people say that's exactly the wrong formula, but I've made it this far.
Stanley A. McChrystal
GoodMedicalPeopleEatingSmall
Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.
Steven Soderbergh
WorldPortraitI CanMove OnStreet
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
Tony Kushner
PeopleYouAudienceThingsWell
I like to think of myself as a true artist.
Luke James
MyselfThinkArtistTrueLike
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
LiveTimeManCreateKnowCreation
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
TimeWishBackGoI WishOnly
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