Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce
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I recently read a collection of stories called 'Boondock Kollage,' by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent.
Jesmyn Ward
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Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.
John Grisham
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Even at your best, the creative moments are still kind of fleeting.
Rivers Cuomo
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There's a lot of real estate in our brain dedicated to facial recognition and to physics. That takes a lot of processing power out of our brain.
Jon Favreau
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In 'Waiting for Guffman,' the character I played, the Corky character, he's very serious about what he does, and it's not meant to be mean that this is a small town and these people aren't the most talented people. They're trying the best they can. So to be mean, that would be kind of horrifying in its superficiality.
Christopher Guest
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Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it.
Colleen Atwood
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I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.
Aung San Suu Kyi
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I am excited to work with Vikas. Whenever I tell people that I am doing a film with director of 'Queen,' they are like, 'Wow, good for you.' That makes me feel really good, and I feel fortunate to be the chosen one.
Alia Bhatt
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It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds.
Peter Benchley
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With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.
Timothy Noah
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To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
Nicole Krauss
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I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.
Richard Burton
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