Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.
John Dos Passos
Recitation: by Male by Female
I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.
John Burnside
DisappointmentWorldRoutineWant
I would watch 'Sesame Street' and see neighborhoods and kids with other kids to play with, and I just didn't have that. You know, we were on a lake. We just didn't have that stuff.
John Gourley
YouLakePlayKnowStreetSee
I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.
Mavis Staples
MoneyPurposePeopleSingingFame
Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
Angela Duckworth
GoodEffortNobodyMatterWithout
I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
Johnny Cash
AloneTimeWritingReadingShyRoom
As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.
Amy Waldman
FactsEnoughYouFindGoTry
My first series regular was on a TV show called 'Starved,' which was so many years ago, and I was the only guy they brought in. So I go in, I read, it goes well. The next day I hear I got the job, and I rejoiced.
Sterling K. Brown
DayJobGoFirstNextYears
I need a coffee, I'm a cold coffee guy. That's how I do.
Rob Riggle
CoffeeColdNeedGuyHow
Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.
Robert Caro
WorkPoliticalGeniusWillSomeday
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the long labor of perfecting the tools of his art. Yet the work itself need not be explicitly evangelical in its themes and plots.
Michael O'Brien
WorkGoodArtCreativeWritingLong
Women rule our lives, don't they?
Juan Manuel Fangio
WomenRuleOurOur LivesLives
I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!
Debbie Gibson
MyselfHumorSense Of HumorEveryone
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