Even if it's a national issue, the federal government cannot provide all the answers.
Elaine Chao
Recitation: by Male by Female
You lose yourself in the to-do list and never tackle those big things you promised you would when the campaign came to an end.
John Dickerson
YourselfEndYouLoseNeverBig
You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
John Irving
CharacterRelationshipPeopleMeYou
While I was doing Hindi, people there laughed at me because I couldn't speak Hindi and English properly.
Amruta Khanvilkar
PeopleMeSpeakDoingEnglishHindi
I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.
Steve Martin
MomentDayLaughterMeLaughYou
I always knew I was going to make a record called 'The Foundling.' Since I picked up a guitar, I knew it.
Mary Gauthier
GuitarAlwaysUpGoingMakeKnew
The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore.
Michelle Dean
CultureManSocietyExploreOut
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
Luke Ford
LifeGodReligionMeSeriouslyWay
If I could have a family and a home one night, and all of it's gone the next, that must mean that life has the capacity to change. And then I thought, 'Whoa! That means that just as change happens to me, I can cause change in my life.'
Liz Murray
LifeFamilyChangeHomeMeNight
I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.
Judy Blume
PeopleThinkBackGoWriteAbility
I want to be someone for young girls to look up to, for fathers to want their daughters to listen to me because I'm not rude, and I'm actually talking some sense.
Jorja Smith
MeSomeoneTalkingLookYoungWant
People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.
Jonathan Frid
PeopleThinkRightPayAnything
My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.
Diane Duane
PassionChildrenGenerationYoung
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