The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.
Tommy Rettig
Recitation: by Male by Female
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
Jennifer Weiner
MenYouHorrorWriteFictionNotice
Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.
Jean Piaget
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I feel like I'm constantly fighting against my exterior, or this exterior presentation of myself, because of how I look or perhaps because of who I'm with.
Amber Heard
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Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.
Sue Kelly
EffortYearCongressThroughAct
In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.
Russell Brand
GoodPoliceSomeoneMannersWill
The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.
Mary Higgins Clark
TruthHateMeDoorTruth IsPerson
I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.
Mary Pope Osborne
ImaginationIdeasResearchPersonal
Too many people who come in as CEO of a poorly performing company assume that none of the incumbent executives are worth retaining. That's not always the case. Sometimes the talent is there, but it's not being led well.
Mindy Grossman
TalentPeopleWorthSometimesAlways
I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the gridlock, the pettiness, and the corruption.
Jon Ossoff
WorkCorruptionHillYearsSawFive
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Christian Nestell Bovee
NameMoreOnlyObjectsTenderCure
I started keeping a diary in third grade and, in solidarity with Anne Frank, gave it a name and made it my confidante. To this day, I feel comforted and relieved of loneliness, no matter how foreign my surroundings, if I have a pad and a pen with which to record my experiences.
Ariel Levy
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I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.
Aung San Suu Kyi
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