Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.
David James Duncan
Recitation: by Male by Female
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
Andre Agassi
FeelYouLoseSpecialSomething
My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.
Robert Schumann
HeartLosingMindFeelDeadTurn
You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.
John Hoeven
YouGrowingEconomyTaxesGet
It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.
John Hurt
BusinessPeopleYouI CanTellGet
Fidel Castro's most scandalous show trial was not mounted against a political figure but against a writer: Heberto Padilla. In 1971, after 38 days of detention, Mr. Padilla was forced to 'confess' at the Cuban writers' union to the charges of 'subversive activities.'
Alvaro Enrigue
PoliticalDaysActivitiesAgainst
You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.
Tommy Chong
TreatDoubtDemonsYouLookNeed
I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.
Roisin Murphy
LoveHappyWritingPerformanceWell
If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts - but it's not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it's any better - but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.
Jay-Z
GoodBetterYouConnectionBornSay
When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about - because a lot of his work was top secret - he would always tell me these stories and laugh. As deadly serious as his work was, he would laugh at the absurdity of it all.
Doug Liman
WorkFatherHomeMeLaughSerious
I didn't have to keep a bloody journal. It's terribly boring keeping a journal anyway. I hate it. You spend more time writing down life instead of living it.
Christopher Plummer
LifeTimeHateWritingYouDown
Being a mom, I can't imagine my child not having a meal. That's hard to digest.
Ciara
ChildMomHardMealImagineBeing
I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty, and like Him, I love all of humanity.
Phil Robertson
LoveMeTreatDisrespectHumanity
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