Sharon Salzberg Quotes

It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films.

Sharon Salzberg

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Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

Jimi Hendrix

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Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.

Joe Pantoliano

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In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.

Jess Walter

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That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'

Jenny Zhang

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Journalism doesn't have to be your first love... or your only love. You can come to it in desperation, because you can't think of anything better to do with your life, that it's this or the abyss. But once you get going... it helps if you love it.

Robert Krulwich

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I always wanted to be a designer and always felt surprised as a child when my sister used to deliberate about whether to be a nurse or a teacher.

Matthew Williamson

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November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.

Anita Diament

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The one thing that Hendrix had that is unique among extraordinary guitar players is he had songs that were on the radio. His guitar genius was exposed to the masses by 'Foxy Lady.'

Tom Morello

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I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.

Tom Daschle

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I think that people need to stand up with their backbone and not go to places where they feel like the workers aren't taken care of.

Tom Douglas

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The only thing I didn't like as a kid was I was required to do a minimum of 3 hours of schoolwork every day, and there was a tutor on set.

Jonathan Ke Quan

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My husband gets up at around 5.30 A.M., so I'll tuck him in around 9.30 P.M. or 10 P.M., and then I'll go and lie down on the couch with a book and my two dachshunds.

Diana Gabaldon

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