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I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is…
— Jennifer Egan
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I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine.…
— Abraham Verghese
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I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the…
— Jennifer Nettles
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When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue,…
— David Nicholls
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The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.
— Eve Ensler
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Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because…
— James Fenton
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This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an answer. The first…
— James Fenton
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Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part of that infant…
— Peter Ackroyd
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When I was very young, I used to clean up after my parents. If I stay in a hotel, I make the bed and clean…
— Mark Helprin
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In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such a fever pitch…
— Tom Shales
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Unlike the Contract with America, which was created by Washington pollsters and insiders, Families First was developed from the grassroots up. Congressional Democrats from across…
— Dick Gephardt
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If every American automatically has health coverage, the age at which Medicare kicks in becomes a less fraught issue. We could gradually raise the age…
— Joe Klein
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The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you…
— Lois Lowry
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Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a…
— Lois Lowry
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When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens is that we…
— James Redfield
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Everything about Washington is inconsistent, because they say one thing and do another, which is what my opponent, Claire McCaskill, is very, very good at.
— Sarah Steelman
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I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up.
— Sean Quinn
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The vast majority of debt that Anglo maintains is owed is strenuously disputed. However, I cannot now pay those loans which are due, following Anglo…
— Sean Quinn
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With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I…
— Sean Brady
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