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Jonathan Franzen quote: "Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people."

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

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My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really. Jeremy Northam
Walt Whitman quote: "You will hardly know who I am or what I mean"
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...success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Theodore Sturgeon quote: "You must write to the people's expertise."
You must write to the people's expertise. Theodore Sturgeon
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person. Candace Bushnell
The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google. Edward Felten
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. Herman Hesse
Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets BP rather than other companies? I don't think that - would be right. David Cameron
I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.' Ryan Hurst
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A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times. Andrew Denton
The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again. Ruth Buzzi
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Charles Peguy quote: "Freedom is a system based on courage."
Freedom is a system based on courage. Charles Peguy
Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out. A whole chorus of voices. Orphaned voices. They seemed to speak for all the unlived parts of me, and they came with a force and dazzle that I couldn't contain. They seemed to explode the boundaries of my existence. I know now that they were the clamor of a new self struggling to be born. Sue Monk Kidd
My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before. Sergio Aragones