It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people.
Hubert de Givenchy
Recitation: by Male by Female
Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Jo Nesbo
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Sleep is my great indulgence, and I get eight hours every night. Being chronically overtired raises stress levels in a bad way and is responsible for a lot of depressive breaks.
Andrew Solomon
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We culturally decided, as the personal computer came in, that it was for the boys.
Megan Smith
PersonalComputerCameDecided
I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.
John Niven
MusicGreatManGoldGreedLondon
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.
Amy Tan
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Now I can see I was at fault for not being more considerate, but when we were doing the show I didn't think it was my job to be considerate to other people.
Ron Moody
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I'm fully aware, I've gotten terrible reviews my entire career. It's not a really big deal; it's something I can deal with.
Lou Barlow
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I really love working with Ramona from Nite Jewel. We've kind of grown up together.
Julia Holter
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Once, when I was playing a nude scene in an indifferent play in New York, a critic wrote, 'Diana Rigg is built like a brick basilica with too few flying buttresses.' Do you think that's fair?
Diana Rigg
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I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.
Donovan Bailey
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Tom Simpson is like the Bobby Moore of British cycling.
Bradley Wiggins
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I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
Anne Lamott
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