I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
For two generations up through the mid-1980s, many thought we were losing the Cold War, even in early 1989, few believed that… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
What happened to me should teach everybody that you should never give up on anybody. — David Ortiz Copy Share Image
We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
So many good things have happened to me in the game of baseball. When I do allow myself a chance to think… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm satisfied with what I've done. I'm not satisfied with what has happened in my career, some of the real roadblocks I… — Ray Price Copy Share Image
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My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can't understand what happened at the singularity we came out of,… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
I was in Athens for a football match when 9/11 went down, and it was quite spectacular - we went into this… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
I worked in a paper mill all my adult life and there were a lot of funny guys there. So you pick… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Indeed, evolutionists don't agree on how divergently our own biosphere could have developed if such contingencies as ice ages and meteorite impacts… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with… — Alexander Walker Copy Share Image
I think it's nice when everyone's happy. I'm that kind of person. But then sometimes you have people that are never happy,… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
When 9/11 happened, the world, certainly in the United States of America, there was a unity. There was this sense of unity.… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
Fire and water do not mix, neither can you mix judgment of others with the desire to repent. If a man commits… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back… — Micky Dolenz Copy Share Image
