I have not won far more awards than I have won.
Alice McDermott
Recitation: by Male by Female
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
Jesse Jackson
MeBornI Was BornSlum
I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.
John Banville
LiveGodLightMeWritingWhy
People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.
Jennifer Weiner
GoodBestMenPeopleMeWriting
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
Max Lerner
ExcellenceManGreatnessSearchSee
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Amy Tan
PowerWordsAmazingMeMagicYou
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy Adams
HonestyMenBelieveLongSomething
I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.
Roberto Cavalli
LoveWomenMenFriendsIntelligent
I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.
Cliff Martinez
DiversityNeverAlwaysRadioLeft
I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.
Annie Lennox
JobWorryWeekKnowStrikeUnions
One of the few things that can be said for certain about Europe's prehistoric peoples is that they all came from somewhere else.
Norman Davies
SaidEuropeThingsSomewhereFew
We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!
Richard Curtis
BusinessHotPositionAgencyEither
Just do what you want to do, and who cares what people think. That's always been my thing.
Lil Yachty
PeopleThinkYouWantAlwaysBeen
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