There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
Laura Schlessinger
Recitation: by Male by Female
Whether you work with a small or corporate press, the important thing is to have realistic expectations in terms of sales, promotion, and the work you have to do as an author promoting your novel.
Joe Meno
WorkSmallExpectationsYouSales
If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.
Jessi Colter
FriendLiveBestWritingBest Friend
I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it.
Robert Mapplethorpe
I AmSelfishArtistsAttributeAm
I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
Robert Indiana
ArtArtistsPopLeast
Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.
Matt Damon
TodayDayWorldYouRulesYesterday
My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience.
Amanda Seales
MotherExperienceSchoolIdentity
I'm generally a very happy guy because I'm doing what I want. I'm willing to tell you that there are people who are much better than I am in writing. I don't have to be the fastest gun in the West.
Stephen J. Cannell
I AmHappyPeopleWritingBetter
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
Mitch Daniels
FailureFutureOptimismAmbitionNow
If you score 20 goals one season, then you have to promise yourself that in the following season you will get 25.
Luis Suarez
GoalsYourselfYouWillScoreGet
I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.
Judy Greer
PeopleLateToo MuchAwesomeDancing
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.
Chinua Achebe
GreatYourselfPeopleStoryYouTry
Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.
Christopher Dodd
SafetyMilitaryOurShouldConfront
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