Confidence definitely did not get me here! More of, like, desperation.
Jesmyn Ward
Recitation: by Male by Female
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
John Irving
LifeLoveLiveCourageEnoughYou
Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.
Robert Pattinson
PeopleMeWorldBelieveGangster
One should have a wide variety of assets in one's portfolio. And oil, by the way, is a particularly important asset to have in one's portfolio because we need it, and the economy thrives on it.
Robert J. Shiller
ImportantWayOilNeedEconomy
I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.
Anna Quindlen
I AmPersonNowComfortableBeing
Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality.
Siri Hustvedt
DreamsBelieveRealityAcceptEvents
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
AgeQualityMeInterestingKindOwn
I think Picasso was someone who took art's powers of consuming, its powers of much-ness and multiplicity, and used that to his fullest extent. That's something that was permitted to men, obviously, much more than women, but was also permitted in the past much more often than now.
Molly Crabapple
WomenArtMenPastThinkSomeone
A great Chicano forebear of mine in writing is Rolando Hinojosa-Smith. He was writing good border mysteries for Chicano readers back in the '80s and '90s.
Luis Alberto Urrea
GoodGreatWritingBorderBackMine
A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.
Louise Penny
DisciplineI AmBookLazyWithout
God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.
Joyce Meyer
GodHappyPeopleYouWillOthers
I'm trying to demystify the whole process. Make it simple, make it palatable. I want people to have respect for the law, and I want to educate people on the basics of the law.
Joseph Wapner
RespectSimplePeopleLawProcess
I identify as a Georgian who wants to do right by Georgia.
Jon Ossoff
RightGeorgiaWhoIdentifyWants
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