People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.
Anita Desai
Recitation: by Male by Female
All my life, I have been a celebrant of Halloween. For me, it is the most important day of the year, the turning point in the old pagan calendar.
John Burnside
LifeDayMeMy LifeYearCalendar
My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway.
Jeffrey Skoll
PowerPeopleReachGoalMoviesWill
At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
John Polkinghorne
ThinkingPresentToo MuchMuchVery
All you can do is the same as any other fight: whoever they put in front of you, you go in there and try to get the W.
Stipe Miocic
FightYouGoTrySameGet
One of my main wishes in wanting to write about my mother was to explore the impact of her death on my life, explore our relationship, think about the different versions of myself that I was with and without her. I also had the really strong wish to bring her to life for my children, who were born after she was gone.
Tracy K. Smith
LifeMotherRelationshipChildren
I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.
Tommy Rettig
MeWorldThoughtSmokingHelpWorst
I have often thought of doing a story with someone either as a human being or as a robot who, by a series of stages, changes into the other end of the spectrum. By the story's end, he'd be either totally robotic or totally human, the opposite of what he once was. And possibly... bring him back again.
Roger Zelazny
StoryThoughtEndSomeoneDoingHim
I don't subscribe to the 'Doctor Who' magazine and we've only got the normal amount of 'Doctor Who' fridge magnets.
Arabella Weir
DoctorNormalGotOnlySubscribe
It's not like I wake up and think, 'Oh God, I have to go to the gym.' It's just pretty much a given. I do cardio, light weights, and a good stretch, and I always try to get to the pool for at least a 15-minute swim.
William Fichtner
GoodGodLightWake UpThinkGym
I'd love to have time to do my hair, honestly. I'd love to be Victoria Beckham just for one day - to look that good. But I can't.
Pink
LoveGoodTimeDayHairLook
One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.
Sean Hannity
SuccessHappinessBusinessGreatDay
I'm not standing above the audience trying to manipulate them as a puppet master or a trickster; I'm inside the story I'm writing and making and thinking about things very seriously and feeling very deeply at times, and trying to translate that into a narrative.
Scott Derrickson
WritingStoryThinkingTryingInside
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