Mary Pilon Quotes

Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book, sometimes even relegated to a tiny font size. They're often forgotten but, in nonfiction, particularly history books, can offer a fascinating footprint into the author's research, a joyful, geeky abyss.

Mary Pilon

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Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.

John A. Logan

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Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings.

Jeremy Grantham

TodayPeopleWorldThinkWeirdHigh

I've learned to accept that I'm a children's writer, even if it's not what I set out to become. It's what I should have been all along, and I'll stay in this role as long as I'm a writer.

Jeff Kinney

ChildrenLongAcceptBecomeOut

This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

John Thorn

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I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable.

Rosalind Wiseman

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I don't think Mr. Snowden woke up one day and had the wherewithal to do this all by himself. I think he was helped by others.

Michael McCaul

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Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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I'm realistic. I'm not becoming Farrah Fawcett here. If you stay beyond your welcome, it's for ego or money or because you can't exist without the limelight. I'm fine without it.

Judy Sheindlin

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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

Douglas Coupland

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My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

William Scranton

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I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.

Peter Facinelli

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The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.

Seth MacFarlane

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