Graydon Carter Quotes

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

Graydon Carter

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MeWritingParisStrangeGetMine

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

Joe Nichols

LostGetThemselvesAnybody

I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so, going on these TV shows and appearing on the cover of this or that. Now kids can see how baseball can change your life. Frank Thomas did that for me.

Matt Kemp

LifeChangeCommunityBaseballMe

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

Stella Young

MyselfThinkDisabilityOldUsed

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books.

Roald Dahl

GoodChildrenPeopleWritingWorld

I work with men a lot, and there's a yin and a yang that goes on when you work one guy and one girl. And there's things that I bring that they don't bring and things they bring and I don't bring.

Roisin Murphy

WorkGirlMenYouBringGuy

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Mary Wortley Montagu

TimeMoneyMenLossMannersNever

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

Mike Tyson

TimeBookReadingRevolutionDid

When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.

Mike Lee

MoneyDoorYouFindMoreOut

When 'stuff' hits the fan, it has a way of making you stronger.

Dhanush

StrongerYouWayFanStuffMaking

Industrial hemp is a safe substance with many practical commercial applications.

Cory Gardner

SafeIndustrialPracticalHempMany

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

LifeMyselfPainPeopleThinkWant

The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.

Scarlett Pomers

PeopleEatingStoryTalkMoreReal

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