The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Recitation: by Male by Female
I was a freshman at Stanford University the first time someone called me a 'bama.' One of my new friends from D.C. said it, laughing, and even though I didn't know what it meant, exactly, I got that it was some kind of insult. I must have smirked or shrugged, which made him laugh harder, and then he called me 'country,' too.
Jesmyn Ward
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When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with no help available anywhere. Which is how it should be.
John Banville
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In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?
Andreja Pejic
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I asked long ago,'What must I do to be saved?' The Scripture answered, 'Keep the commandments, believe, hope, love.' I was early warned against laying, as the Papists do, too much stress on outward works, or on a faith without works, which as it does not include, so it will never lead to true hope or charity.
John Wesley
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Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year.
Merritt Wever
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Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
Amy Winehouse
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I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.
Steve Vai
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I don't want to be an editor! I don't want to direct; I'd be a horrible director. I don't want to write - I have a 'story by' credit on one film I did. And I don't want to edit at all.
Topher Grace
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I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.
Rufus Wainwright
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Wild and urban at the same time - that's the type of woman I'm with.
Michael Winter
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I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.
Lucy Hawking
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I'm honored to have served for 18 years as Arizona's 10th Senator - and for four terms in the House of Representatives before that.
Jon Kyl
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