Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Recitation: by Male by Female
The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me, tackling that first novel. Just writing it.
Jesmyn Ward
MeWritingThinkImportantFirstHe
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
Anna Freud
GoodMyselfI AmPeopleMeOpinion
I wasn't the classic comedy type; I wasn't bullied or extrovert. I was more the ambitious literary one who wanted to write clever little plays.
Stewart Lee
ComedyCleverMoreWriteClassic
If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.
Rolf-Dieter Heuer
LosingResearchStartYouStage
Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.
Lord Kelvin
ScienceFaceProblemEverlasting
If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.
Chris Cornell
Be KindPeopleWaitStupidSomeone
Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?
Christopher Meloni
New YorkNewTwoSeriesWhoever
I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.
Cory Doctorow
LifeMy LifeLookDownPageOut
My childhood closet was ornamented with U.S. jerseys of World Cups spanning the nineties and two-thousands - some of my favorite memories are from summers when, with a ball under my foot and a jersey on my back, I watched the U.S. team go up against the world's best players in the largest sporting event on Earth.
Clint Smith
MemoriesBestChildhoodTeamWorld
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
Clive James
LifeOutFictionLeftDullBits
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
Aretha Franklin
MusicRock And RollRockAlwaysRoll
Private is our DNA, in my DNA. It enables us to make decisions for the long term.
Anthony Pratt
DecisionsLongDNALong TermUsOur
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