David Guterson Quotes

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

David Guterson

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I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.'

John Barrowman

OpportunityMyselfSorryStandFeel

All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.

Melissa Etheridge

WomenMenEqualEverythingBetween

My parents are kind and accepting. Because so many of my friends were gay, it was just an accepted thing in my house. I was very lucky.

Melissa McCarthy

ParentsFriendsHouseGayKindJust

Coming from L.A. to D.C., I'm always impressed that in D.C., people are doing the things that the people in L.A. are pretending to do. Whenever I'm in D.C., I ask people what they do, and they say, 'I'm with the agency, or I'm with State.' In L.A., I ran into a guy who said, 'I'm working on an audition for a guy who happens to be with an agency.'

Maz Jobrani

PeopleDoingSaidSayAskThey Say

ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division.

John Knoll

FirstCompanyDivisionHadWorked

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

Amy Alcott

SpiritualMindGameGolfYouOver

Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us.

Steve Buyer

WomenTodayMenUniformLivingUs

If the right thing came along, I would absolutely direct something I did not write because I love the process so much, but we'll see. I'm taking it day by day.

Stephen Chbosky

LoveDayProcessWriteRightSee

Flickr was designed partly to market itself. There are a lot features, in place early on, that let people take their photo, upload it to Flickr and post them elsewhere, on their own Web site or their blog, which meant a lot of incoming links.

Stewart Butterfield

PeopleEarlyPlaceOwnTakeWeb

I like the idea that one thing leads to another. You can tweet something completely innocuous, and then find yourself going off on a tangent that's inspired by a response.

Steve Martin

YourselfYouFindSomethingGoing

I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.

Ruth Bernhard

LifeMeWayMoreEverythingPursue

Nobody tells you how to be famous.

Mike Cernovich

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