I love a star print. I always get a lurch if I see a nice one.
Bella Freud
Recitation: by Male by Female
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
Jim Harrison
PeopleThinkSaidWhyOutCritic
I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as easily be writing to forget and put that past behind me.
Andre Aciman
PastMeWritingForgetWriteReturn
I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!
Angela Cartwright
WorkGoodHopeGreatArtMom
I think the important thing now is to have a celebration and then with determination move into our common, shared, different future.
Michael D. Higgins
FutureDeterminationThinkImportant
I don't think perfect is interesting. I think what makes life exciting is the imperfections.
Mary Frann
LifeThinkInterestingPerfectMakes
The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to everybody and to explain specific color, specific ambience. I need to be very precise, but I think I'm a better director when I'm more a channeler than a dictator.
Denis Villeneuve
EnergyColorInspireThinkBetter
A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?
Phoebe Snow
FriendPeopleMeCountrySugarWho
Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.
Sydney Brenner
WorkScienceChallengesRememberNew
I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.
Marianne Faithfull
I AmGetLikeMuchFrightenedAm
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
Mark Strand
LiePoetryFreeDirectionFeelYou
The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.
James Heckman
LifeEducationSuccessCharacter
I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women's movement. I didn't know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation.
Grace Paley
WomenMomentWomanWritingBuilding
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