If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Irvin S. Cobb
Recitation: by Male by Female
I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.
Jo Nesbo
NatureMyselfEvilSucceedSayTrue
I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.
John Barrasso
DoctorInsuranceWantWashington
As you get older, the days have gone, and the years have gone, and it's 'whoosh!'
Jeff Lynne
YouYearsDaysGoneGetOlder
I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me.
John Piper
JobMeLoseI CanKnowPoor
These are the two sides of Steven Spielberg: the reverent grown-up who knows when to say the right thing and the exuberant kid who loves a good laugh. Both sides are sincere, and both are necessary, for Spielberg knows he can't feel good about himself unless everyone else feels the same way.
Stephen J. Dubner
GoodFeel GoodFeelLaughSayWay
I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.
Sophie Kinsella
WorkPlansOutStarWork OutPop
With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method.
Simon Kuznets
EconomicsWorldAwardSpecialWithin
I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.
Shimon Peres
MotherBrotherMeTasteHerGot
Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.
Mary Stuart Masterson
LoveGoodFatherChildDinnerStory
I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school!
Lorrie Fair
LoveSchoolPeopleColorsBondSeem
Any narrative, whether it's fiction or not, you have to approach it as though it really happened to you. I think that's the only way to get inside the characters and make the narrative work. It's a storytelling tradition, and I think to come off as genuine then you have to really approach it that way.
Jason Isbell
WorkThinkTraditionYouGenuine
Ask any deer camp old-timer for a foolproof recipe, and you're likely to encounter a lot of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup. There is a reason for that: Mushrooms plus cream plus game meat adds up to a perfect trinity of flavors.
Jonathan Miles
SoupGameYouPerfectDeerMeat
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