Terri Windling Quotes

My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life.

Terri Windling

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LifeBookMy LifeAmericaLived

I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.

Jennifer Tilly

BeachThinkVegasYouHouseWrong

I bought a book with guitar tabs and forced myself to learn. I would go to school and then come home and sit in my room for hours figuring out the songs.

John Gourley

HomeMyselfSchoolBookGuitarGo

I try to stay very busy. I basically work seven days a week. I try to do new things, to meet new people.

Robert Kraft

WorkNew ThingsPeopleBusyWeek

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

Andy Rooney

GovernmentMeThinkSurpriseHelp

As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.

John Thorn

SnowHeartTeamGreenGameChill

Sweden is famous for many things - but not fashion.

Stefan Persson

FashionFamousThingsSwedenMany

The worst job I ever had was working as a Lady Liberty sign-twirler for a tax services place, where I'd just dance and have fun. The way I talk about it makes it sounds like a fun job - but then I got a staph infection from the costume. So that was probably the worst part about it.

Ron Funches

DanceJobFunHave FunLadyPlace

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

Judy Blume

IdeasBadCreateWillSeePlot

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Jonathan Safran Foer

GreatYouNeverCageArtistsReally

I have a saying - 'You treat me good, I'll treat you better. You treat me bad, I'll treat you worse. And when in doubt, knock 'em out.'

Chuck Zito

GoodMeTreatSayingBetterYou

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

Paul Theroux

GreatTravelFindingThreeSayMark

I'm old enough to have lived through a time when Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Viola Liuzzo, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and others died so people of color could vote.

Thomas Hauser

TimeKingPeopleColorEnoughVote

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