Lisa Kleypas Quotes

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Lisa Kleypas

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The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

EducationMyselfSacrificeBrother

They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible.

John Doerr

FamilyGreatWorldSmallGroupWay

Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.

John Hickenlooper

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I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.

John Woo

FriendMeEveryoneMasterSeeJust

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Stefan Sagmeister

MyselfI AmPeopleThoughtFind

I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.

Soledad O'Brien

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Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those. I played the guitar and sang - and lost.

Sissy Spacek

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It's strange: I love pop music, and I really can enjoy it, but I didn't feel like the characters within pop music - like when Madonna sings 'Crazy For You', for instance, I don't feel like I would ever be the character she takes on in that song. I would never feel... I don't have that confidence in me.

Shura

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In a lot of groups, you can change a musician, and it doesn't mean anything.

Robbie Robertson

ChangeYouMeanAnythingMusician

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

Robin Morgan

WomenFaultSexismMothersYour

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

Michael Ritchie

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Thankfully, I have a job where it does not matter in the least what I look like.

Jason Aaron

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