Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
Giles Foden
Recitation: by Male by Female
I want a man who isn't questioning who he is. I want a man to be able to stand next to me and not disappear and not be emasculated by my success.
Jessica White
SuccessManMeStandWantDisappear
When I walk around on the street and someone comes up to me, I have just as many full-grown men with large beards in Slipknot shirts saying he likes my band as much as I do girls with bright pink hair.
Andy Biersack
WalkMenMeHairSayingPink
My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.
Robert Schumann
MusicI AmImpossibleFindDown
I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, it's their only elective, so this is their one shot. They'll take the Russian Novel or American Poetry, so I want to give them the high points, the inescapable poets.
Robert Hass
PoetryAmericanWantTeachHigh
I don't think that I'm as big as Lobo is, but if you could, like, transplant Mickey Rourke's body on my head, that would be just great.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
GreatThinkYouBodyHeadBig
China is just so different from the rest of the world.
Travis Kalanick
WorldRestChinaDifferentJust
I wouldn't apply myself at school. I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living.
Michelle Gomez
MyselfSchoolThoughtActingLiving
My whole life has been about risk and reward.
Michael Ovitz
LifeRewardRiskWholeBeenAbout
Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a week-long catastrophe. In truth, it's better to view it as an era.
Douglas Brinkley
TruthBetterAmericanViewEra
You have these magical moments in these live events that are never captured on film and that only live on in your memory. Those are always my favorite.
Dean Ambrose
LiveMemoryMomentsYouNeverFilm
As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watching Willie Mays play more than all of them combined, even if he played for the 'bad guys!'
Cheech Marin
LovedBadPlayMoreWatchingEven
I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.
Sheryl Sandberg
WorkSuccessWomenDaughterSimple
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