I don't ever really know where I get my characters from.
Elizabeth Strout
Recitation: by Male by Female
Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.
Joe Lando
ParentsMeParentTalkingNowTry
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
Jerzy Kosinski
DayTelevisionWriteAverageWatch
I'm not that professional.
Andy Richter
Professional
The phrase 'dream career' sounds pretty stupid.
Tom Sturridge
StupidCareerDreamPrettySounds
A great idea is not enough.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
GreatEnoughIdeaGreat Idea
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
Dogen
GreatWaterMountainsColorBody
I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.
Dianne Reeves
LifeMusicMy LifePianoWhoMuch
Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler.
Claire Tomalin
GoodManAmericaYoungYoung Man
Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
William Floyd
FearFateFriendsIslandDestruction
Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
Susan Estrich
TimeActionMeant To BeMove OnNow
The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.
Sherman Alexie
SimpleThinkToolsProblemEmotions
One good step breeds another one.
Nicole Ari Parker
GoodStepBreedsAnother
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