J. Courtney Sullivan Quotes

Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.

J. Courtney Sullivan

Recitation: by Male by Female

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CharacterMyselfPerfectionValueMe

When I got started, the Bulls weren't even that popular in Chicago. The Chicago Sting, the indoor soccer team, was outdrawing the Bulls. Now you can travel all over the world - Europe, Far East, Africa, wherever - and you see people with Bulls memorabilia or merchandise. It's incredible and the one thing I never could imagined accomplishing.

Jerry Reinsdorf

TravelPeopleTeamWorldYouSoccer

Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.

Meg Cabot

SmartLookKindMattersBeing Smart

I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.

Trevor Horn

BusinessMusicYouthPlaySometimes

Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

Rita Rudner

WomenMenGrowBadBarbieGrow Up

In my 15 minutes of fame around 'Diamonds and Dirt,' it was not a healthy time for me because of my insecurity.

Rodney Crowell

TimeMeInsecurityDiamondsHealthy

I have to admit I've never had a Fruit Loop.

Ruth Reichl

FruitAdmitNeverLoopHad

No matter what, if you write a song that's great that everyone expects to be a hit, then everyone's going to be expecting another one from you. If you write a song that no one notices, you're going to want to write one that someone will.

LP

GreatSongSomeoneYouWantMatter

I came across the Indonesian genocide in 2001, when I found myself making a film in a community of survivors. They were plantation workers, and it turned out they were struggling to organize a union.

Joshua Oppenheimer

CommunityMyselfOutWorkersFilm

I get bored of vacation.

Jose Andres

VacationBoredGet

We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.

Bre Pettis

Industrial RevolutionRevolutionYou

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

Ariel Sharon

PeacePeopleCompromiseKnowHand

You know, I never fight for corporate America.

Aubrey O'Day

FightAmericaYouKnowNever

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