Karen Bender Quotes

I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.

Karen Bender

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GoodStartThoughtFriendsDone

I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.

John Banville

PastStartWalkingI CanGoRight

In such a therapeutic, pragmatic, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps society as ours, the message of God having to do all the work in saving us comes as an offensive shot at our egos.

Michael Horton

WorkGodSocietyOffensiveUsShot

I'm not the neatest person in the kitchen by any means.

Amy Brenneman

KitchenPersonMeansAny

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

Tom Peters

ChangeTechnologyToolsDrivingWeb

All anyone agreed on was that Kurban Said was the pen name of a writer who had probably come from Baku, an oil city in the Caucasus, and that he was either a nationalist poet who was killed in the Gulags or the dilettante son of an oil millionaire or a Viennese cafe-society writer who died after stabbing himself in the foot.

Tom Reiss

SonCityNamePenSaidOil

At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.

Robert Dallek

StartMeasureFirstGoodwillTerms

If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then.

Rupert Friend

DoneNowMinuteFilmMakeAbout

It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.

Michael Leunig

FearHistoryTimePeopleFreeLived

The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.

Lucas Papademos

GovernmentProcessCountrySound

From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.

Jason Priestley

LifeAgeSchoolHigh SchoolActing

I'm living a boyhood dream.

Dimitri Payet

DreamLivingBoyhood

I don't happen to believe, by the way, that immigration policies that single people out because of religion, for instance, are fair and just.

Bob Iger

ReligionPeopleBelieveImmigration

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