Carmen Agra Deedy Quotes

The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.

Carmen Agra Deedy

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TimeMindFindingYouWriteHardest

I had a concussion I didn't get over for three years. I think that's why I'm goofy.

Jim Harrison

ThinkThreeWhyOverYearsGoofy

If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it's the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad.

Matt Mullenweg

FocusJobIdeasYouBadQuit

A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold War was Johnson's vehicle for expanding the Southern economy and making it, as he hoped, one of the more prosperous regions of the country.

Robert Dallek

BeginningGovernmentWarWorldCold

Growing up, I was a giant KISS fan, and the truth is the record I had was 'Rock and Roll Over,' and there wasn't even a clear picture of them in the packaging! So I really had no idea what they looked like; I just loved their music.

Rivers Cuomo

MusicTruthKissGrowing UpTruth Is

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

Ron Schiller

ProudNewsStraightforwardTelling

People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.

Michael Schumacher

CarPeopleMeDriveFeelRacing

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.

Mona Simpson

HomeWomenLiveDailyChildrenGo

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

Joni Mitchell

StupidShallowSinceDecided

Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers. I would love to perform at that level. I love the exchange with the audience. I love being able to sing and dance to express your emotions and the community and friendships that are formed when working on a theater piece.

Brianna Brown

LoveCommunityDanceEmotionsAwe

People think, 'Wow, you're an actress, so people must be really nice to you and kiss your ass.' NOBODY kisses my ass.

Alicia Silverstone

KissPeopleThinkYouNobodyNice

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

William J. Clinton

TimeHateStressPeopleThinkNeed

It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty, musty term, and yet it clearly applies.

Susan Choi

FunnyMyselfMeThinkSomeoneSeems

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