I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.
Ian Thorpe
Recitation: by Male by Female
I write narrative nonfiction, creating lively scenes through action and the use of quotes from firsthand accounts, all based on rigorous research. If I say a character leaned against a fence on a windy day, than I have at least two sources to back up these details.
Jim Murphy
CharacterDayResearchActionFence
Don't overpack your carry-on. You're never going to read that second book or that fourth magazine.
Jen Kirkman
BookYouNeverGoingYourSecond
Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment.
John Ridley
FunnyFlowerMarriageEqualityWhite
I think serial monogamy says it all.
Tracey Ullman
FunnyThinkMonogamyI ThinkSays
We were driven off like rats in five minutes.
Roger Sherman
DrivenOffFiveLikeMinutesRats
I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement.
Matt Bellamy
FamilyConcentrationNightmaresBeing
Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.
Moby
AttitudeNew YorkOpinionFriends
I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way.
Lisa Lutz
FatherMotherChildhoodParentsBond
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
Chrissie Hynde
LifeExperienceJealousyMy Life
If I lead my life according to someone else, I've screwed my life up.
Anushka Sharma
LifeMy LifeSomeoneLeadUpElse
First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in the dirt, they have to grow things. They also have to become sensually stimulated, and the way to begin is with a bakery.
Alice Waters
FoodGrowHandsWayBecomeFirst
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
William Godwin
GodRightTyrantHimself
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