Max Joseph Quotes

One thing you learn about doing nonfiction is that you've got to get it right, fact-check, do your research. You've got to not only get the facts right but represent the subject to the world in a way that insiders feel like it's an access port and outsiders can access it. If you're too insider, you block access to anyone else.

Max Joseph

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I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.

Jennine Capó Crucet

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The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose.

Melvyn Bragg

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I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.

Meaghan Rath

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I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

Robert Powell

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I think the most important thing in life is your health. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything.

Matthew Rees

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For more than 20 years, Camfed has supported a generation of African girls and women with access to secondary and higher education, employment opportunities, and, ultimately, into positions of leadership.

Ann Cotton

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'Top Gun' was one of my favorite movies growing up.

Stephen Colletti

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I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists, and therefore I know there is a God.

Romeo Dallaire

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I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan.

Miguel

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To be honest, I can't wait to be a dad. I really hope that that's how the cookie crumbles for me.

Lucas Neff

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Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away.

Joshua Foer

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The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.

Jon Meacham

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