P. N. Elrod Quotes

Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

P. N. Elrod

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If you give people something they want, they'll come and see it.

Melvin Van Peebles

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Hubble showed us the marvel and majesty of stars being born.

John M. Grunsfeld

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I would love to have more actress friends, but I just don't.

Anna Faris

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I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

Tony Hawk

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I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.

Mary Roach

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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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When you grow up in an extended family, or in a stable neighborhood with two or three generations of families who live there, you feel seen. Not just the good things you've done, the stuff you put on your resume. You know they've seen you in your dark times, when you've messed up - but they're still there.

Dean Ornish

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One time, someone came up to me and said, 'I know so-and-so. They're a professor at Harvard. They're a big fan of your work.' But that doesn't impress me more than any other people feeling that way.

Boots Riley

WorkTimePeopleMeSomeoneKnow

When I was 12, I wrote a legit song - about having my heart broken, of course, because I was 12 years old going on 40. I sang the song for my mom, and she asked, 'Where did you get that song?' I told her I wrote it, and she said, 'Really?' She looked at my grandparents and just said, 'Oh, boy.'

Ashley McBryde

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Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

Arthur Smith

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Our youths are constantly trying to learn everything the West has to teach, but what is newest in the West has existed in China for thousands of years.

Sun Yat-sen

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When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.

Susan Orlean

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