Jason Isbell Quotes

I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

Jason Isbell

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To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!

Anna Seward

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As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.

Tori Amos

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If someone came into my home and wanted to arrest me for murder, that would be far less traumatizing to me than someone coming in and taking my 7-year-old twins.

Trent Franks

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You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

Robyn Davidson

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My father will always be my hero. He pioneered two successful companies that paved the way for the technology services industry and has devoted much of his life to helping people in need and those who serve our nation in the armed forces.

Ross Perot, Jr.

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Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

Lorrie Moore

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The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

Judy Blume

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For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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I've seen the enemy we face up close. Radical Islamist jihadists are a direct threat to our nation and to Colorado. I know what it takes to defeat this enemy.

Jon Keyser

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Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.

Doug Larson

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I do not like going to the dressing room and trying on millions of outfits. I just look at something and hope that it will work. I try it on at home, since I don't like going through the whole process.

Ciara

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The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

Arthur C. Clarke

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