I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism.
Svetlana Alexievich
Recitation: by Male by Female
Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.
Stanley Donen
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I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
Tracy Kidder
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Golf is the most fascinating game, but other people's game is the most boring thing.
Ronnie Corbett
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I am not strong on perfection.
Jasper Johns
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I haven't shifted language. I'm writing in English because I like it. I'm a sucker for the language, but the good old poems I'm still writing in Russian.
Joseph Brodsky
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Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Dick Gregory
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I've been the teenage success, I've been homeless and driving around in my car and not knowing where to eat. You just want to keep working and learning, and I was doing that. If I hadn't done 'Wild Bill,' I'm sure I would have acted in something else.
Dexter Fletcher
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I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of years.
William Golding
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In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
Kirk Douglas
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The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.
James Weldon Johnson
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I know now that there are men out there who are, for me, the whole package, who are supportive of my successes because they know I will be just as supportive of theirs. I'm less tolerant of foolishness now; I know that it's important I not tie myself up with the wrong person, because then I will miss the right person coming along.
Ginnifer Goodwin
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