What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo
Recitation: by Male by Female
I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.
Joanne Harris
GreatLightLaughLiteratureYou
Until I was about 16 years old, my dream was to be a musician. I played in rock bands and jazz bands. Then I decided to be an actor and kept the stable career of 'jazz pianist' as my safety net.
Simon Helberg
SafetyCareerDreamJazzRockActor
Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards for themselves, leaving nothing for the people who do the sowing.
Tom Vilsack
PeopleHelpPlanWantNothingOver
My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.
Rupert Murdoch
MotherLiveParentsStartYouYears
Sexy is the attraction that is given as an encomium to women or men, or the capacity to attract the attention of the opposite sex because of their physical attributes.
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
WomenMenSexyAttentionSex
My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name is Irish and would not be familiar to English editors, one of them said: 'If she writes anything else, do let us know.' Slowly, very slowly, the books began to sell and be noticed.
Colm Toibin
NameDownKnowSaidIrishShe
Design doesn't have to be daunting. Some people really find it challenging to take on their entire home, because they don't know their aesthetic; they don't know where they want to go.
Bobby Berk
HomePeopleDesignAestheticFind
I don't like it when I see my books sold cheaply.
Philip Pullman
SeeI SeeBooksLikeSoldCheaply
I have no issue with raising minimum wage, but then the customer can't say to us, 'Why are you raising your prices?'
Tilman J. Fertitta
CustomerYouSayWhyMinimum Wage
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
Richard Wagner
ResultSourceSeldomWorries
There's a certain type of theatre that I haven't got any time for at all - established, boring, same-old stuff without any reason or passion. There's quite a lot of it about, and it motivates me to try to do something different, something risky, raw, ugly, and challenging.
Marianne Elliott
PassionTimeUglyMeTheatreBoring
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
Lynn Abbey
IdeasSmallBrandWantRiskNever
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