Bonnie Jo Campbell Quotes

I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

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My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

Jim Lehrer

DailyExperienceGratefulI AmNow

I try and borrow my mom's vintage stuff as much as she lets me - she has this amazing vintage Gucci that I love.

Jessica Springsteen

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'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

Jennine Capó Crucet

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In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie.

Michael Douglas

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After I lost my legs, I got invited to my old high school, and I shared my stories with all the classes. I remember I was so nervous and didn't know where to start, but I knew I had information they could take away.

Amy Purdy

SchoolStartHigh SchoolRemember

The ambition of 'Ten Thousand Saints,' Eleanor Henderson's debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. In nearly 400 pages, Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire and bit of emotional detritus.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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I adopted England as least as much as England adopted me.

Tom Stoppard

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The world stage is very difficult. It's not easy to be on the world stage.

Mohammed Morsi

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I am grateful, you know. I have to be grateful in the sense that I feel that what I have is a gift.

Derek Walcott

GratefulI AmGiftFeelYouKnow

I'm pragmatic. If this is going to make sense, get me a job, and in the end let me put my kids through school. I'll play killers. But my kids always ask me, 'Do you die in this one, too, Daddy?'

Colm Feore

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Growing up, I used to babysit, but, thinking back on what I was like at 15, this was probably a terrible idea.

Corey Stoll

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I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

Bob Fosse

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