In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.
Ezra Koenig
Recitation: by Male by Female
Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.
Jodi Picoult
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One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.
John Wells
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Every woman who has a business book has a platform. For the most part, they're either a television personality or someone who had the perfect pedigree and worked their way up the career ladder.
Sophia Amoruso
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The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.
Jordyn Wieber
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I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.
Atom Egoyan
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In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.
William Lilly
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I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.
Sydney Brenner
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The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
Peter McWilliams
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'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.
Pawel Pawlikowski
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.
Richard Armour
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Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.
Lynn Nottage
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