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Hallie Ephron Quotes

The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first 'adult novel,' Lucy Maud Montgomery's 'The Blue Castle.'

Hallie Ephron

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

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Mother Blue Book Ready She First

We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.

Jim Allchin

Think Marketing Product Going Spend

Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.

Jodie Foster

Me Right Person Reading Weird Person

I wound up through a wild set of circumstances getting into coaching. I went in and volunteered with Don Coryell, who was a big part of my past, great coach. A lot of people say he was one of the greatest coaches ever. He was very good in high school, college and pro. Another guy on that staff was named John Madden.

Joe Gibbs

Good Great Past School College Say

If you're a black conservative and you criticize the black community, you're an Uncle Tom. If you're a white conservative and you criticize the black community, you're somehow a racist.

Jesse Watters

Community Black You Uncle White Tom

Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.

Jerry Greenfield

Business Environmental Start Think

'Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things.

Jeremy Jackson

Life Time Me Night Fashion My Life

Even on a large ensemble where their parts are relatively small - because having ten main characters obviously affects their screen time - the thing that attracts great actors is when there is that challenge to get some reality into something.

John Hillcoat

Great Time Challenge Small Reality

Music is completely not reality. There's nothing about music that has any meaning at all. A lot of people disagree with that, but it's basically true. You can listen to a piece of music, and fifteen people will give you fifteen answers of what it's about.

Michael Bacon

Music People Reality Meaning You

You come out of your MFA program with a cogent clutch of stories, trying to get an agent interested, and she or he admits these are quality, sure, but this agent actually needs something the publisher can make money on. So you get kind of bullied by the market into writing a novel.

Stephen Graham Jones

Money Quality Writing Trying You

The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.

Tom Hodgkinson

Money Simple Sleep Free Laziness

I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.

Martin Seligman

Positive Happiness Think Bring Us

The performance of your position coaches is obviously more than just the actual statistics of how their players perform. There's insight from relationships you have around the league throughout all the different interactions that you have.

Mike McCarthy

Performance You Statistics Insight