There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
John Irving
Recitation: by Male by Female
My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.
Jess Walter
PoetryStepWritingTryingWrite
With 'The Soup,' obviously it has to be totally scripted out, and then, within that, I improvise punchlines and sometimes setups if I can't read the teleprompter properly.
Joel McHale
SoupSometimesOutWithinImprovise
Before Starbucks, there wasn't as much of a coffeehouse routine; we generally drank really cruddy diner coffee.
Andrew Yang
CoffeeRoutineStarbucksDinerMuch
The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.
Robert Reich
WorkHard WorkFaithAmerican Dream
In a large bureaucracy, you cannot exercise the transformation of any situation without coopting bureaucracy.
Anand Mahindra
TransformationExerciseYouSituation
I'm having to learn to get the balance right, because if you want a full-time career, and you also want to be a mother who is there for your child, then you have to make sure that when you do spend time together, you're really there for them.
Trinny Woodall
MotherTimeTogetherBalanceChild
I went to college on the East Coast in Portland, Maine.
Tony Shalhoub
CollegeMainePortlandEast Coast
I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.
Roy Blount, Jr.
MoneyWordsSchoolCollegeLanguage
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
Mikhail Bakunin
SocietyPresentWithoutIndividual
The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.
Jon Landau
GreatDisciplineGreatnessControl
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
Delmore Schwartz
LoveCourageLove IsDangerousKind
One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.
Christian Bale
AloneGrowing UpWalkingEnjoyBack
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