'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.
Jeff Baena
Recitation: by Male by Female
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
Joan Didion
ResearchWritingYouDownGoMatter
We have the word 'Mc' attached to so many things now, like 'McMansions.' It's become part of our vernacular as something on steroids almost, just bigger and bigger. I think, to a degree, studios have fallen prey to that as well.
John Lee Hancock
ThinkNowBecomePreyDegreeBigger
The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.
Robert Kiyosaki
ValueLostOverDollarPercentFed
When a leader doesn't do his or her job, it isn't just a problem with the person. They take their whole organization down.
John T. Chambers
LeaderJobOrganizationProblemDown
Growing up Catholic has been a gift.
Moira Kelly
Growing UpGiftGrowingUpBeen
It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.
Jarvis Cocker
LeaderMeWeirdFeelPartyTwo
With kids, I have less time for things like masks - though I do try to treat myself, after they've gone to bed, to a mask or something. It's kind of funny because, as you get older, you probably need to do more in terms of beauty, but actually, you have less time to do it. But becoming a mother has made me a stronger person.
Doutzen Kroes
FunnyBeautyMotherTimeMyselfMe
For a long time growing up, I thought that everything happens for a reason and it's kind of already written. But as I've grown and learned various things, I think that the most important moment is the one that you're in, and that's the only moment that matters, that you can really control. The future is unknown, and the past is history.
Christen Press
FutureHistoryTimeMomentPastYou
No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.
Christopher Dawson
NatureChangePathWorldSociety
A wedding, a great wedding, is just a blast. A celebration of romance and community and love... What is unfun about that? Nothing.
Ariel Levy
LoveCommunityGreatWeddingNothing
You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other.
William Hurt
LifeTimeGriefJoyYouTunnel
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
Philip Roth
FearGreedManifestMoreVolatility
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