Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
Hilary Mantel
Recitation: by Male by Female
Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.
Stephen Root
BestPeopleThinkDoingYouWant
I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I've spent a fair chunk of my time doing.
Stella Young
LifeLoveTimePeopleMy LifeDoing
The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.
Steven Cojocaru
HopeGreatCompassionGenerosityMe
In some ways, you kind of take a personality and drop it on the ground, and it breaks into a bunch of little pieces, and you kind of water those pieces, and it grows into characters. So they're all me in a way.
Tony DiTerlizzi
WaterPersonalityMeYouKindWay
The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.
Mike McCue
SuperiorWebiPadConsumptionDevice
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.
Louise Erdrich
LoveI AmPlaceSheWhereHere
If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.
Jaron Lanier
LifeJobOld FriendsFriendsLook
Truth is the daughter of time.
Aulus Gellius
DaughterTruthTimeTruth Is
I grew up under the politics of my size and my skin. I grew up under the politics of the sound of my voice and a lack of agency, or a feeling of a lack of agency, and not always being able to find myself in images that were in the media.
Winston Duke
MyselfPoliticsVoiceMediaSkin
Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private.
Shawn Amos
FamousUpScrewedGetExclusive
For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic.
Sheila Heti
LifeMeRepresentationMemoirYour
The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack and deny science.
Sheldon Whitehouse
ScienceArchitectureControlOthers
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