Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.
John Edgar Wideman
Recitation: by Male by Female
My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn't explain the strange noises we so often heard in the attic.
Jennifer McMahon
StrangeGrandmotherSheExplainEven
Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
Robert Morgan
BestPoetryThinkAmericanDays
I feel very privileged to have played China, and the pyramids, all these fantastic places, but it created a kind of smoke curtain between the audience and me as a musician.
Jean-Michel Jarre
MeFeelSmokeKindPlacesAudience
Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery. I didn't just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and it was scary.
Amber Rose
MoneyWinningDreamPersonPoorGet
If we want politics to be the kind of arena where you're attracting and encouraging really competent people who do a job well because that's what they're supposed to do, then you have to pay them a salary that's commensurate with that.
Stephen J. Dubner
PoliticsJobPeopleYouWantKind
Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.
Srikumar Rao
PositiveCultureMotherhoodThinking
I am an actor. I try to do different things.
Tony Shalhoub
I AmActorTryThingsDifferentAm
There is money to be made giving trick-shot shows at schools, clubs, tournaments, and even shopping centers. Pool shows on television almost always include a few fancy shots.
Robert Byrne
MoneyShoppingGivingTelevision
I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.
Rupert Murdoch
WorldInformationNewsKnowYoung
It's rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically.
Matt Bomer
YouRareSomethingGetSignificance
It's a bit naff, but there is something exciting about pulling a bit of pottery out of the ground that's 2,000 years old.
Mary Beard
OldYearsOutGroundSomethingBit
By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.
Jay Parini
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