Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.

Irvin D. Yalom

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GreatCreateFirstHistoricalDeal

'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.

Jim Rash

GameTryingDownSenseTakingMany

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

John B. S. Haldane

SocialismProblemSizeBiologist

Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one's books in print, one's reputation alive.

Michael Dirda

LuckReputationArtistAliveWill

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

Travis Bradberry

LeadershipLeaderDailyGreatShe

Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.

Drake

BusinessRichSomeoneYouNiceNeed

We're all human at the end of the day. That's why I look at every person I encounter the same way.

DeMar DeRozan

DayEnd Of The DayEndLookPerson

Little Walter and Muddy Waters were incredible. And Bo Diddley was doing some great stuff, too.

Columbus Short

GreatDoingLittleIncredibleStuff

I'm obviously a white woman with privilege. I want to make sure I always collaborate with people who aren't like me so we can create a work that isn't one dimensional.

Petra Collins

WorkWomanPeopleMeWhiteCreate

I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

Sheryl Swoopes

AloneWomanMeBasketballThought

I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

Paula Fox

PeopleMeBad PeopleBadKindSeen

It's interesting. People go to an animal shelter and pick a dog that's been kicked, beaten, and has lost a leg and an eye, and they'll take that dog home and give it love and support, but they don't do that with people.

Nikki Sixx

DogLoveHomeAnimalSupportPeople

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

Maria Monk

SchoolCharitySometimesAcquaintance

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