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Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

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FamilyEducationMusicDisciplineMe

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

Jim Harrison

PeopleThinkSaidWhyOutCritic

Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.

Megan Fox

PeopleThinkSometimesSaySarcastic

When people left on the Oregon Trail from St. Louis, they knew that only a fraction of them would make it to the West Coast. But they went anyway.

John M. Grunsfeld

PeopleTrailWestWest CoastLeft

I am an 'other.' As a queer, biracial man who occupies and embodies many different intersections of 'otherness,' I've spent my entire life seeking reflections of myself in the world around me to connect and relate to.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

LifeMyselfManI AmMeWorld

Near my desk, I keep a large plastic carton filled with fresh notebooks and stationery of various kinds, sizes, and qualities.

Michael Dirda

DeskPlasticFreshKeepKindsLarge

You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.

Steve Carlton

LifeProgressYouFindWayOut

It's kind of a weird process being pitched by the company you're already with.

Stephen Curry

ProcessWeirdYouKindCompany

When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.

Tom Rath

CompetitionWeekKindergartenBooks

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Robert Burton

FaithGreatIllusionFeelingsWill

We do learn a thing or two from art. It may not be the one-to-one instruction of a moral lesson or the rote learning of a grammatical rule or mathematical concept. But the habits of mind art cultivates are important.

Michelle Dean

LearningArtMindLearnLessonTwo

This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

AgeSpecializationTheaterLudicrous

I had had no aspirations to be a filmmaker or a writer.

Jonathan Demme

FilmmakerAspirationsWriterHad

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