New York is, of course, many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.
John Updike
Recitation: by Male by Female
You gotta find that hook so everybody can grab on to it. So that you're true to the culture but, at the same time, how it relates to the larger tapestry.
Jimmy Smits
TimeCultureYouFindTrueSame
It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.
Jilly Cooper
PressureGoOfficeMustTerrible
Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
TruthEffortClimbYouDownBring
Turns out, Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, occurring once in every 800 births, and no one really knows why it happens. It just does.
John C. McGinley
DownWhyOutCommonJustHappens
If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers.
Jeremy Lin
MyselfDayVideo GamesPlayGames
As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.
Andrew Greeley
WarYearPresidentEuropeOwn
I'm not one of those people who has an act.
Ani DiFranco
PeopleActWhoThose
I think empathy is romantic. I think humor is romantic. Kindness is romantic. I think those kind of gestures of caring and love are romantic.
Michael Buble
LoveKindnessRomanticHumorCaring
I was 8 years old when I started listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company and Led Zeppelin.
Johnny Colt
ListeningBadOldCompanyYearsLed
The reaction of the public plays a very important role. It gives us an adrenaline boost, especially when people start to shout and clap their hands in time with the music. That really helps us to go on.
Simone Biles
MusicTimePeopleStartHandsGo
Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.
Ron Fournier
WarRestYouSayWantConnected
The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.
Jason Gann
InterestingPlaceRoomWriterReally
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