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I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

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Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly. Conan O'Brien
I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest. Cesar Romero
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There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail. Brad Garrett
I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free. Gilbert K. Chesterton
I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed. Coco Chanel
You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes. Dick Wolf
I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily. John Mayer
Mike Love quote: "Mankind invents things to fight about."
Mankind invents things to fight about. Mike Love
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Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions. Isabel Allende
Feminist education? the feminist classroom? is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university. Bell Hooks
Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is with my kids[...]The bundle of bright yellow warming my core, formerly frozen and uninhabitable[...]They got yellow from me, and I felt yellow giving it to them and it was all good[...]So, why am I leaving my show? It took my yellow. I wanted it back. Without it I can't live. The gray kills me. Rosie O'Donnell
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I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing. Carly Simon
Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement. Soren Kierkegaard
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The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government. Thomas Watson, Jr.