Margaret Atwood Quotes

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

Margaret Atwood

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There's rarely a big hat. I think all those things are great, but I'm boring in that I just use sunscreen every day. I don't mess around. I put it on first thing. I have it on now, and I'm sitting inside.

Jennifer Garner

GreatDayHatThinkEvery DayNow

I'm completely obsessed with Andrew Smith's 'Winger.' A great, hilarious, and moving story.

John Corey Whaley

GreatMovingStoryObsessedSmith

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

John le Carre

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In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

John Thorn

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Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.

Amy Waldman

PeopleMeConflictThinkJournalism

Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name.

Snoop Dogg

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The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Year's Eve show for him in 1970.

Ronnie Milsap

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I have an inability after matches are over to sort of switch off and relax completely.

Milos Raonic

RelaxOverOffSwitchSortAfter

Once you're retired and are no longer counting on earned income to live on and supplement your nest egg, you're done with disability insurance. At that point, though, the need for long-term care insurance - which protects you from spending that nest egg too fast - takes over.

Jean Chatzky

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The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.

Dick Cheney

GoodBusinessChooseGoPlacesOil

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

Colm Toibin

WritingYouRealizeManipulation

Whenever I wore a bathing suit, I kept a sarong around my hips that went halfway down my thighs. The tops of my thighs are like baby skin. Where the sarong ended, I can see sun damage: I've got dark spots and places where there is no melanin. The spots are not pretty, so I encourage everyone to protect their skin from the sun.

Christie Brinkley

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