Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Antonio Porchia
Recitation: by Male by Female
I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's stories trespass the truth of mine.
John Edgar Wideman
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I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece.
Robert Nozick
JobWrinklesThinkYouNewTry
When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.
Anna Chlumsky
BusinessSportsSchoolHappyChild
A hunk of beef raised on Scottish moorland has a very different ecological footprint from one created in an intensive feedlot using concentrated cereal feed, and a wild venison or rabbit casserole is arguably greener than a vegetable curry.
Tristram Stuart
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The loser, the fool, is embraced in England because there is a recognition of silliness there that allows a person to keep his ambitions and desires at a certain distance. Just being in the race is enough.
Roger Rees
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Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period.
Ruben Blades
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No one can ever prepare a parent for two things: the immeasurable love that comes with having a child; and the sorrow and confusion that comes when your child appears to learn in a different way from other children.
Maryanne Wolf
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We have to be ready to share our faith in Christ.
Michelle Carter
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I never drank water. Always soda. I didn't use to like water, but I've had to train myself to drink it.
Missy Elliott
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You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.
Lotte Lehmann
MeWingsYouMoreAlwaysThan
When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.
Don Kardong
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