Laura van den Berg Quotes

I always tell my students that, in fiction, the opening is a clue to the work's DNA: not only what it is, but what it will become, where it will lead you.

Laura van den Berg

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Our life is all about the choices we make, and when I was looking for a mate for life, I really was looking for someone who was a family man, somebody who would embrace my girls as much as they were going to embrace me. I guess I just wasn't finished having children yet.

Joan Lunden

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If anything, Twitter helps me read about perspectives outside of mainstream media and learn about new authors, artists, and ideas that I don't always get exposed to in my regular media diet.

Jenna Wortham

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Campaigns are weird animals and innately bring out bizarre road stories.

Meghan McCain

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I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

Jeffery Deaver

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Life's too short and too complicated for people behind desks, people behind masks to be ruining other people's lives, initiating force against other people's lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, whatever.

Jeff Buckley

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My family is so weird.

Tori Bowie

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When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.

Mary Roach

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Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

Mike Huckabee

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Keep in mind, our demographics of our state, how it breaks down in terms of political affiliation: over half the people in this state chose not to align themselves with any party at all.

Lisa Murkowski

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I used to have a group called Bad-Movie Saturday. Every Saturday, six of us would go see the worst movie that came out each weekend. It'd be noon in Burbank. It was just a running commentary. All executives - we would each talk through the movie and make jokes.

Jason Reitman

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I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms.

Jasmine Tookes

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In a Toyota, the cops don't think about stopping you so much.

Chuck Berry

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