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Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.


Peter Ustinov
There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.
Rick Bragg
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If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early.
Camille Paglia
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I was way too hyperactive to study for long. I would freak out, then crash, then be too tired to read or write. I really should have had less sugar.
Mo Rocca
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The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.
Suzan-Lori Parks
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.


Zooey Deschanel
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I've learned to allow myself the room to fall in love with what I'm writing.


Sylvia Day
If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.
Jim Carrey
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Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.


Bill Cosby
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I think I can allow myself one child - and from then on, I think I would have to adopt. It makes sense not to add to the population problem.
Evangeline Lilly
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I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.


Saul Kripke
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It's hard to get those roles that allow you to show everything and feel like you're really being used and exhausted and spent, which I think is what actors really love: We want to be tired.
Amy Landecker
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My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.
Lisa Whelchel
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My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
Anita Desai
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
Anthony Trollope
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If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.
Troy Polamalu
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It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
Isadora Duncan
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I was tired of writing for shows where there was always a shoot-out in the last act and somebody was killed. 'Star Trek' was formulated to change that.
Gene Roddenberry
The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.
Robert Fortune
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I would have to change my entire life if I went into acting. I dance eight hours a day, and then suddenly to be sitting on a set for 12 hours a day is a big difference for my health.
Sarah Hay