In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.
Nora Roberts
Recitation: by Male by Female
If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.
John Marshall
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While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.
Andy Kaufman
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'Smart, Funny and Black' is about celebrating, critiquing and learning about black culture, black history, and the black experience.
Amanda Seales
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Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.
Stanley Crouch
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If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.
Jay Parini
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Getting a tax refund is nice, but having more money year-round is better. If you get a chunk of change from the IRS, you're giving the government an interest-free loan - not something they, or any bank, would ever give you. Instead, change your withholding so you get a little extra in each paycheck.
Jean Chatzky
ChangeMoneyGovernmentBetterYou
I'd love to see more businesses take this approach - intentionally rightsizing themselves. Hit a number that feels good and say, 'Let's stick around here.'
Jason Fried
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We moved to Wales when I was quite young, but we frequently visited the rest of my family, especially my mother's side.
Joseph Morgan
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I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.
Douglas Coupland
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Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.
David Suchet
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I've never been a show horse or particularly charismatic. I'm just the guy who gets up and works hard every day.
Chuck Fleischmann
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