Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!
Thabo Mbeki
Recitation: by Male by Female
Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.
Jerry Spinelli
ThinkEndYouDownNowNeed
The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet.
Melvyn Bragg
BestBetterCountrySometimesPlanet
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
John Keats
BeautyGreatPoetSenseRather
Neil Gaiman swooped into my life though another friend, Jason Webley, who knew we were fans of each other's work and introduced us via email. Neil and I, like me and Ben, just hit it off instantly.
Amanda Palmer
LifeWorkFriendMeMy LifeEmail
On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.'
Stephen Tobolowsky
DaySingleWhereBeingIrritating
There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.
Steve Yzerman
PeopleTeamBagYouFallMore
Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against anti-Semitism.
Tom Stoppard
AngerLettersCapableModernAgainst
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
Robert Collier
SwimmingWorldEncouragementGoal
The vision of the Internet as a vast digital wasteland isn't correct. Everything is awesome, and we have more stuff to read than we ever have in history.
Robin Sloan
VisionHistoryInternetMoreDigital
I'm dangerously generous.
Mika
GenerousDangerously
We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.
Lou Gramm
WritingPlayInvolvedStillSongs
I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.'
Donny Most
WorkThoughtComedyMoreDramatic
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