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For me, writing a historical novel was really hard. I love history as a subject and majored in it in college. I think, in a way, my training made it worse for me because I knew how important it was to focus on document-based analysis, and I really didn't want to get stuff wrong.

Min Jin Lee

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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

Jim Morrison

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I track some long hours.

Jim Pattison

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I think that being a parent has expanded my writing, expanded my understanding of my characters, and has added a depth and richness to my work. Having kids deepened my idea of parenting and all the anxieties that come along with it.

Jesmyn Ward

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As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course.

Robert Gottlieb

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I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no physical attraction at all. He was very much attracted to me.

Anna Nicole Smith

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' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.

Roger Ebert

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People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

Mike White

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Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

Joseph Barbera

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I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

Jonathan Demme

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The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.

Derek Walcott

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When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.

David Suzuki

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I love living in New York.

Chelsea Clinton

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