Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
Hilaire Belloc
Recitation: by Male by Female
I was quite naughty at school. I was always in the back of the class messing about with the Bunsen burner rather than paying attention.
Jim Sturgess
SchoolAttentionBackClassNaughty
For people who don't know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. I've been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.
John Barrasso
WifePeopleMeMedicineCareKnow
The news changes every day. So it's not like being involved in any litigation that goes on for four years, and the trial lasts three months.
Megyn Kelly
DayEvery DayNewsThreeChanges
I think I'm seen as trustworthy. I'm seen as having determination and persistence, and I'm seen as having a capacity to reach achievable answers to difficult issues.
John Howard
DeterminationPersistenceThinkReach
As a novelist, I remain interested in the notion of a single reckless act and its consequences.
Anita Shreve
ConsequencesSingleActReckless
The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.
Jeff Cooper
FamilyPoliceCitizenDevelopmentUp
I know I can pick up a playbook.
Stefon Diggs
I CanKnowUpPick
I started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a guy knifed him at the end of my street. That's how I became a photographer. I photographed the gangs that I went to school with.
Don McCullin
SchoolEndPhotographyStopStreet
I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.
Douglass North
LifeWorkSchoolMy LifeIntention
In the beginning, the clients would say, 'This is too much,' but over time, the ones I liked kept working with me. They'd say, 'It's not too much. Coco can still be Coco. She still gives 100 percent when she's on a photo shoot.'
Coco Rocha
TimeBeginningMeToo MuchSayShe
You're just constantly battling this thing that is telling you, 'I don't think I can do it.' I think we all have it. When you're fresh and alert, you can easily put those doubts down. But when you're tired, they easily come up to the surface.
Ashton Eaton
TiredThinkYouDownI CanFresh
I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
Alice Walker
FriendshipWomenCollegeMeLoved
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