My parents were very famous, but they were never snobs.
Maye Musk
Recitation: by Male by Female
When you ask most American parents why they want to have kids, it's to bring more joy into their lives. So, when you don't feel that all-encompassing joy, it must be that something is wrong with you. I think it's dissatisfaction that the expectation was different than the reality.
Jessica Valenti
JoyParentsThinkRealityAmerican
All kingdoms look small through an airplane window - little dominions built on quicksand. But looking up from the ground, where most of us stand, they're rather impressive.
Steve Rushin
WindowLookingAirplaneSmallStand
I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.
Sigourney Weaver
SchoolMeTallMeanAwkwardUs
Bury your mistakes.
Rupert Murdoch
MistakesYourBury
A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.
Joyce Carol Oates
GoodSurpriseReviewAlways
I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country. I didn't really know how to do much of that.
Chris Stapleton
TimeWritingCountryEdgeKnowPop
I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.
Claire Forlani
ParentsBelieveThoughtFindKnow
I remember watching the Twin Towers collapse. Because it was another country and looked like a film, I just sort of thought, 'Oh.' I didn't think that much. Then three days later, it hit me. I was in a terrible state, and I was tearful for three or four days.
Bradley Walsh
MeThinkThoughtRememberCountry
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
Alfred North Whitehead
WisdomKnowledgeGrowsShrinks
A lot of times, you're interacting with people for whom you're one of the very few veterans that they've met or had a lot of interactions with, and there's a temptation for you to feel like you can pontificate about what the experience was or what it meant, and that leads to a lot of nonsense.
Phil Klay
ExperiencePeopleFeelYouVeterans
Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.
Susanna Kearsley
LoveRomanticStoryStrongMystery
My secret passion is motorbikes. I want a Kawasaki Ninja.
Petra Nemcova
PassionWantSecretNinja
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