It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Recitation: by Male by Female
Sleep is my great indulgence, and I get eight hours every night. Being chronically overtired raises stress levels in a bad way and is responsible for a lot of depressive breaks.
Andrew Solomon
GreatStressSleepNightBadWay
Being a filmmaker in the digital platform has given me complete creative control. I can make what I want, when I want. I don't have to wait to book an audition.
Anna Akana
CreativeMeWaitControlBookI Can
People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.
Michael A. Stackpole
MoneyPeopleNeverOutBuyGoing
Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things.
Michael Cunningham
GodWarWritingSearchEarlySaid
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.
John Singer Sargent
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A lot of people say they eat, drink, and sleep sports, but does anyone really do it, ingesting nothing but Dodger Dogs and Soda Shaqs and Greg Norman Zinfandels 24/7?
Steve Rushin
SportsSleepPeopleSayNothingEat
Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.
Sid Waddell
YouSayOutNeckStickWell
I ran for Congress, just once.
Shirley Temple
CongressJustOnceRan
Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.
Ruhollah Khomeini
GreatSnakeSatanWounded
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.
Dee Rees
WorldHeroesInfluencesComeMost
I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
Chris Wallace
GreatPeopleThinkEnvyLookNews
Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.
Brooke Burke
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