I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
Damon Galgut
Recitation: by Male by Female
I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.
John Fogerty
WorkGoodWork HardYouBadNever
I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.
Andre Aciman
WritingPlaceWriteEverythingMay
We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.
Ann Richards
WorkChallengesSocietyProblemsNew
After you've watched your dad beat the crap out of Charlie King or some other bad guy in about forty movies, you pretty much always said, 'Yes, sir,' and meant it.
John Ritter
KingYouBadSaidMoviesForty
It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.
Siouxsie Sioux
WomenTimeTryingDownStereotypes
As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.
Janice Dickinson
SayingWantGoesCorpse
When one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.
Deontay Wilder
GoodGreatnessDoingAchieveWant
The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.
Donna Brazile
PoliticsBalancePeopleMediaCreate
A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
Donald Knuth
StrongOnlyWeakest LinkLinkList
People are giving me more respect.
Christina Ricci
RespectPeopleMeGivingMore
It's important for a parent to learn to take delight in a child whose behavior might seem mystifying. In the case of an extroverted parent with an introverted child, it can be learning to see the inner riches of your child that may not always be expressed on the surface - but are there.
Susan Cain
LearningChildParentBehaviorLearn
I don't understand the lack of respect for amazing players when people say they are not good enough for me.
Pep Guardiola
GoodRespectPeopleAmazingMeSay
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