Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
Robert M. Pirsig
Recitation: by Male by Female
Once you figure out what your passion is, surround yourself with like-minded people who can help you grow.
Jessica St. Clair
PassionYourselfSurround Yourself
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.
Megan Abbott
LoveNew YorkWritingNewKindTwo
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of 'The Wind in the Willows,' which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.
John le Carre
FatherMeWindBookReadingEnd
I'm very much of the opinion that to work is better than not to work.
John Hurt
WorkOpinionBetterThanMuchVery
This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.
Anna Lindh
WorldBadNewMoreAdjustSystem
Anyone can be a celebrity now; this is not a big deal anymore.
Michael Keaton
NowCelebrityBigDealBig Deal
I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.
Loni Anderson
SchoolHigh SchoolRealityActing
I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.
Johnny Galecki
SportsGrowing UpWorldNightYou
For me, it's all about healthy eating and working out. If I have to look slim for a bikini, then I will eat lots more salad and fruit, which are low in calories and don't make you look bloated.
Debra Stephenson
MeFruitEatingYouLookHealthy
The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.
Donald Miller
LoveChristianPersonImportantMost
On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.
Christian Lous Lange
LimitsNameNationalismMoreExist
As a kid, I just always learned that if you want to be the best, you have to play against the best.
Christian Pulisic
BestYouPlayWantKidAlways
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