Nell Zink Quotes

I admire Eudora Welty. 'Delta Wedding' is a book I've given as a present to numerous women. Eudora Welty rocks. She writes such jewel-like, fine, refined short stories.

Nell Zink

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Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

Jeremy Lin

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I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

Andie MacDowell

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'Lunch Hour' is suitable for a teenager.

Jean Kerr

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There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

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What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

Michelle Obama

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Few things are more painful than being a successful writer born in a small country with an impenetrable language.

Michael Korda

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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Lou Holtz

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If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

Bob Kane

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One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area where you might pick up a tummy bug, you should seek out the local probiotic yogurt. Eating it will introduce you to the local gut flora, apparently.

Anthony Head

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I don't believe in a personal god. It's good to give thanks, whether or not there's a god. There's no reason not to live life to the fullest. Morality is all the more important for people who don't expect to get a piece of celestial candy after they die.

William T. Vollmann

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Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

Pete Rose

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