That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If you think about how broadcast mini-series approach historical events, there is a hagiography. There has been a soft, very glossy idea… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
We're interested by public personas and private personas, otherwise we wouldn't put on with actors rambling on with the same kind of… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
I live every day full of gratitude for the body in which I live, treating it with great love and respect. It… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs… — Jerome Liebling Copy Share Image
I was filming a movie in London, and I drove through Ireland. It was quite beautiful, and the countryside was really remarkable.… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
...whatever other qualities Jews may posses, likable or the reverse, no one who knows them well can deny that they are personally… — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
When awareness expands, events that seem random actually aren't. A larger purpose is trying to unfold through you. When you become aware… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The bureaucratic culture that we [Afghanistan] have inherited is an obstacle. Hierarchies may be extremely efficient for dealing with certain events, but… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
In the face of events that threaten to overwhelm our lives, storytelling gives us a way of reclaiming ourselves and reaffirming our… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC's refusal to televise important… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C.… — Carla Hall Copy Share Image
People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops,… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
I think Bloomberg's broad vision of the environment in New York City is something I agree with. I broadly stand with his… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
You can look in every direction and find a competition or an event going on. Even if you're not involved in playing… — Dawn Staley Copy Share Image
I've got 12 reserves in my riding and have always been very available and worked very diligently on a few files. I've… — Andrew Scheer Copy Share Image
Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all… — Lois Tilton Copy Share Image
The solution is to change from the negative to the positive and one way to do that is to remember that failure… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A lot of times people will have after-parties or try and host an event for comedians, and they misunderstand us. They think… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
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