My books aren't autobiographical.
Emily Giffin
Recitation: by Male by Female
If something's really selfless, then there's really no value in it for you... there's only value in it for the world.
Jeff Baena
ValueWorldSelflessYouSomething
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Sophocles
LiveBestLightlyUnthinkingly
All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
Robert W. Welch, Jr.
AloneBuildingReadingWashington
No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has a melancholy to it. You can say dread, or doom - it's that feeling we all feel when we fall in love with someone: we have this horrible, fearful feeling that maybe we will never have that person in our life.
Robert Zemeckis
LifeLoveFeelSomeoneYouFall
When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy.
Luis Alberto Urrea
WorkHappyPeopleLiteratureDoing
People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.
Mildred Dresselhaus
LifePeopleThinkingEasyEarlyGet
I don't care about age very much.
Chinua Achebe
AgeCareMuchVeryAbout
Being a showrunner is doing a bit of everything. It's not just writing. It's also management: managing actors, managing producers, managing a crew, being kind to people, being a good boss, observing deadlines.
Courtney A. Kemp
GoodBossPeopleWritingManagement
If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I'd much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That's Rome to me.
Anthony Bourdain
GodMeGoSinRomeEat
I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.
Alison Goldfrapp
MyselfThoughtGivingYouToo Much
I really like brunettes.
Shawn Mendes
LikeReally
I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither.
Richard Preston
NatureControlThinkCreditToo Much
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