Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Recitation: by Male by Female
I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.
Andrea Barrett
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Divorce is horrible. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I don't think it's anything that's ever completely resolved.
Andie MacDowell
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This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career.
Treat Williams
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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
Robertson Davies
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The beauty of being co-founders with your spouse is that we run our business and family together.
Julia Hartz
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Theatre is very cutthroat, especially here in New York!
Joshua Henry
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It's okay to say what you want to do.
Jason Day
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It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.
Diana Wynne Jones
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Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.
Christopher Hitchens
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I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.
Bruce Rauner
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Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes.
Wolfgang Ketterle
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My husband is in branding. He brands places - cities, institutions.
Tzipi Livni
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