Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.
Chad Harbach
Recitation: by Male by Female
I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and, you know, when it was composed and who was the poet and all of that and whether Strauss or Wagner or French Belioz, Duparc or Debussy or whatever.
Jessye Norman
SingingSongSpeakYouKnowPoet
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
Jill Lepore
FutureInnovationPastTraditionTug
We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.
Jean-Claude Juncker
MoneyHighAttractInterestRussian
I actually feel sorry for people who have nothing to do on Christmas Day other than watch an NBA game.
Stan Van Gundy
DayPeopleSorryGameFeelNothing
'The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.
Trudi Canavan
PowerBalanceSocietyEndSomeone
Phish has run its course and that we should end it now while it's still on a high note.
Trey Anastasio
EndNowRunHighNoteStill
My entry into the field of hydrogen came as a great surprise. President Bush of the United States was interested in hydrogen for energy applications, and I was asked to chair a committee on hydrogen for the Department of Energy.
Mildred Dresselhaus
GreatEnergySurpriseChairUnited
Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.
Derek Bok
HappyPeopleInequalityEuropeMade
Music comes from a place we don't know.
Chris Martin
MusicPlaceKnow
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
Confucius
FuturePastYouStudyDivineWould
Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge.
Coretta Scott King
PowerFreeHusbandChillJudgeLong
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
Clifton Fadiman
SpeechBananaPeelPartsAdjective
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