I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.
Luis Alberto Urrea
Recitation: by Male by Female
I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his essays and reviews, and it's enacted in his fiction in a mishmash of dizzying incongruities.
Joanna Scott
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
MindLimitsWillHumanHuman Mind
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
Angela Carter
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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
Stephen Ambrose
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It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn't read the cue cards.
Rocky Graziano
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I'm very proud of The Rock.
Roddy Piper
ProudRockVery
I was a tomboy, not a girlie girl.
Minka Kelly
GirlTomboy
I knew I wanted to be an actor, and my mother said, 'Call Aaron Sorkin.' It seemed dubious that I'd make it as an actor by calling Jews I knew, but it worked.
Joshua Malina
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In 'Amalur,' each person believes he has an immutable destiny, one that defines how, and how long, he will live. Until you come along. But of course, your character is the anomaly, somebody who can change both his own fate and the destinies of the people he interacts with. So, naturally, it's up to you to save the world.
Jason Schreier
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I didn't use a phone until I was 14.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
PhoneUseUntil
When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up.
Diana Gabaldon
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I had always wanted to do a collection of cartoons, but you have to wait until someone is actually interested.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
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