Work is what saves you.
Carlos Fuentes
Recitation: by Male by Female
One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.
Joanne Harris
LifePeopleMeWindowWritingLoved
In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails.
John McCain
IntegrityCharacterOpportunityTime
In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will 'take our country back' from everyone they disapprove of. But what they don't realize is, there's a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change.
Matt Taibbi
ChangeTeaVictoryRevolutionBack
I write in public libraries and sometimes coffee shops. I can't write at home and gave up trying long ago. I need activity around me that I'm forced to block out. It helps me focus.
Stephen McCauley
HomeCoffeeFocusMeTryingLong
I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.
Steve Prefontaine
CompetitionYouGoKnowNowRun
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
Rudy Rucker
BeginningAdviceYouDoneWriteOut
There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy.
Rupert Friend
LifeGreatJoyMagicIllusionMeet
That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.
Jason Fried
WorkHomeEyesGreatPeopleWind
The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.
Christopher Hitchens
HomeLosingCityFlyAmericanYou
My dream was always to have a stamp. I feel like people who have a stamp really did something. They really did some acts of service.
Brie Larson
ServicePeopleFeelDreamAlways
I loved performing in the 'High School Musical' movies - that didn't seem like work - but the gym felt like torture!
Ashley Tisdale
WorkSchoolHigh SchoolLovedGym
I have an abundant amount of love in my life, and I'm grateful for that.
SZA
LifeLoveGratefulMy LifeAbundant
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