I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life.
Jen Lancaster
Recitation: by Male by Female
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
John W. Gardner
CreativeFreeRestAssumptionsWeb
Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who would fight anybody. You know, he didn't tell you he was the best fighter pound for pound.
Sugar Ray Leonard
BestFightSchoolBlueChampionYou
Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.
Mikhail Bulgakov
NightStoryShortTrainNewspaper
We have rocked the ozone radically, man. They could probably fix the ozone if everybody stopped what they were doing and they put some cement up there.
Mike D
ManDoingFixUpEverybodySome
I was a difficult kid and a somewhat indifferent student but realized somehow that a new start at a good place, and far from home, was important.
Michael Rosbash
GoodHomeStartPlaceStudentNew
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
Luciano Berio
MusicSpiritualConsciousnessFinger
It is hard to make a movie funny and scary at the same time.
Jason Blum
FunnyTimeHardSameScaryMovie
If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.
William J. Clinton
FuturePeaceAmerican DreamWorld
I eat a light but sustaining dinner before the show: a bunch of greens and some non-gluten quinoa or rice. I'll have a snack at intermission. I'm trying so hard not to have meals after the show because it's so late, but sometimes I just want a big bowl of pasta.
Phillipa Soo
LightDinnerTryingLateSometimes
The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.
Susan Stewart
PowerGriefFaceVisualEvenForm
Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough chips that we could get them mislabeled. So we bankrupted at least two companies which copied our boards, and bought all the parts but they were the wrong parts, so they're sitting on all this inventory they can't sell because the games don't work.
Nolan Bushnell
WorkFunEnoughWrongSittingGames
I'm not afraid of anything.
Mustard
AfraidAnything
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