Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
Leo Buscaglia
Recitation: by Male by Female
When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole - it creates an engaging experience. We don't dip in and out of an episode of 'Game of Thrones,' after all - we take it in as a whole. Why have we abandoned this concept when it comes to publications, simply because they exist online?
John Battelle
GoodTimeExperienceGameMediaWhy
I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss.
Jenny Nimmo
LifeFamilyFatherDeathI AmWorld
In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.'
Steve Schirripa
MotherBestDoingSayReactAsk
Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.
Roger Ebert
DayWindowRoadSearchYouDrunk
In my family, they were all big boozers.
Ronnie Wood
FamilyBigWere
Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.
Lucy Liu
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It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass.
Jay Cooke
LifeBlackYearsDecideMayBass
Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.
Arthur C. Nielsen
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Never was I booed.
Willie Stargell
Never
It takes a long time to get good at something, so it's important to begin as early as possible so that we can improve and begin to see the compounding benefits of the work over time.
Priscilla Chan
SucceedYouBadThings HappenKid
I had a quite unconventional childhood, in the sense that I traveled a lot and I went to 10 or 11 schools. I was completely confused academically, but wherever I went, I could paint. I painted an inordinate amount.
Ridley Scott
ChildhoodConfusedTraveledPaint
It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs that got us into this economic mess than most of us believe.
Mark Zandi
BelieveEasyDifficultMessEconomic
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