In my family, telling stories is just a way of life.
Helen Oyeyemi
Recitation: by Male by Female
I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.
Meg Rosoff
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An artist is his own fault.
John O'Hara
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I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.
Stephen Schwartz
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For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading.
Sonam Kapoor
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I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.
Michael Storm
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Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.
Mitch Kapor
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When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.
Lucy Larcom
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I love a bit of glamour - who doesn't? - but I probably wouldn't be able to pull it off.
Julia Sawalha
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That movie - 'Airplane!' - it influenced so many of us.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.
Jorge Ramos
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Israel needs to change direction, and this is not just political. We're becoming more closed-in, more isolated, more scared. Those who talk tough are making the State of Israel very weak, very isolated - very Jewish, in the Diaspora-sense, in that 'everyone is against us.' We need to get out of this.
Tzipi Livni
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My company, Against All Odds Productions, has done print on demand; we were the first to do a book with a CD-ROM in the early 1990s. We do custom covers. It's always fun to do something new.
Rick Smolan
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