Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house.
John Updike
Recitation: by Male by Female
The 'New York Times' is not reviewing books by non-white people.
Jenny Zhang
New YorkPeopleNewBooksTimes
My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.
Jenni Rivera
MusicProblemsThinkSomeoneWant
We very much use a prototyping model, play with ideas, and then get stuff started that way, which is how the greatest projects get started.
Megan Smith
IdeasPlayWayGreatestStartedGet
I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while in college. What I do is I just write tons of jokes, then I sort them out in terms of quality and then pick the best of the jokes and then try to form them into a plot. If I get a good theme going, I feel lucky.
Jeff Kinney
GoodBestQualityCollegeWorldTry
Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.
Jon Ronson
WritingMysteryEnjoyTryingMost
What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.
Dennis Quaid
GreatThinkLookWantLiverLike
It's a very confusing era that we're in.
Clint Eastwood
ConfusingEraVery
Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, even so the rule of one man, if in all things it has an eye to the common welfare, is democracy.
Apollonius of Tyana
BestManDemocracyEyeWorthThings
The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against.
Ali Smith
LifeWorkDownTryThingsAgainst
My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
Philip Levine
TemperamentNovelistGeared
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.
Todd Gitlin
LifePatriotismBelieveNationalism
It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.
Ryne Sandberg
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