Writers always know whether you like them or not.
Leslie Fiedler
Recitation: by Male by Female
Before Hurricane Katrina, I always felt like I could come back home. And home was a real place, and also it had this mythical weight for me. Because of the way that Hurricane Katrina ripped everything away, it cast that idea in doubt.
Jesmyn Ward
HomeMeDoubtBackPlaceWay
I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.'
Jesse Eisenberg
MyselfMeMomFeelYouLook
We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.
Joel Salatin
RoyalLandBeginUpSystemLock
I remember when I first came out as an artist, back in 2004 or 2005, the record label used to take me to all the radio stations and just have me sit in, like, their lunchroom or their conference room, and play for the whole staff. Just to introduce them to me so they would play my records.
John Legend
MeRememberArtistBackPlayRadio
After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.
Stella Blum
MomentWarWorldSocietyBackUp
I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own lives is that we work to heal ourselves and be better than we were yesterday.
Robert Crais
WorkOpportunityPeopleMeBetter
Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.
Luke Ford
PeopleYouPlaySeeStillFront
What comes to me always is a character, a scene, a moment. That's going to be the beginning. Then, as I write, I begin to perceive an ending. I begin to see a destination, although sometimes that changes. And then, of course, there's the whole middle section looming.
Lois Lowry
CharacterMomentBeginningMeEnding
There's a misconception about Barack Obama as a former constitutional law professor. First of all, there are plenty of professors who are 'legal relativists.' They tend to view legal principles as relative to whatever they're trying to achieve.
Jonathan Turley
LawLegalViewTryingAchieveFirst
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
Boris Pasternak
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Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.
Annie Besant
HeartMenMindWorldBornNever
Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such as high social and income inequality. The lines between criminal, inter-communal, and politically motivated violence are often blurred.
Peter Maurer
ConflictViolenceInequalityHigh
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