Most fiction comes from your experience.
Susan Minot
Recitation: by Male by Female
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
John Cheever
WorldLiteratureDespairSalvation
I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.
Robert Rauschenberg
PaintingWorldThinkMoreRealOut
Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
Anna Louise Strong
CharacterPracticeWashingtonChina
When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.
Angie Harmon
MotherMyselfI AmFeelDoingGuilt
In its more listless moments, 'Pharaoh's Army' seems a ramshackle collection of memories not overly concerned with telling a larger story.
Jeff Giles
MemoriesStoryArmyMomentsMore
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
John Steinbeck
SadSoulGermThanQuicker
I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer.
Stephen Collins
ExperienceMeChanceParentLaugh
Sometimes, people know me from Marvel's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' But that usually only happens in America.
Ruth Negga
PeopleMeAmericaKnowSometimes
I yearn for the day when we'll return to the foundational value that makes this country great.
Mike Gallagher
GreatDayValueCountryReturn
As a woman in Saudi Arabia, you have one of two options. You either lose your mind - which at first happened to me because I fell into a deep depression - or you become a feminist.
Mona Eltahawy
DepressionWomanMindMeDeepLose
In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.
Diane Ackerman
WinterFlowersSkiingGrowEnjoy
When I want comfort food, I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates, but especially those. You can eat them, and because they're so light, you can convince yourself that they are not actually that fattening.
David Walliams
LightFoodYourselfYouComfortEat
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