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You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads) Anne Lamott
Philip Roth quote: "The ordeal is part of the commitment"Esquire Interview 10/10"
The ordeal is part of the commitment"Esquire Interview 10/10 Philip Roth
Beyonce Knowles quote: "Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's..."
Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife~spoken to Oprah in an interview Beyonce Knowles
Cary Grant quote: "Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary..."
Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant," Grant is said to have replied, "So would I. Cary Grant
You shouldn't speak until you know what you're talking about. That's why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I'm a fucking actor! They hand me a script. I act. I'm here for entertainment. Basically, when you whittle everything away, I'm a grown man who puts on makeup. Brad Pitt
If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it! J. K. Rowling
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."[What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck, Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929 (p. 17)] Albert Einstein
that the grace of fable stirs the mind"...and..."that the perusal of excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages Rene Descartes
Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read. Frank Zappa
From a May 2010 Interview, Chuck Palahniuk"Weird and creepy but true, I've been reading lots of Judy Blume. Being a 48-year-old male reading about adolescent sex in Forever gets me lots of stares in airports...At this point I am an authority on menstruation. Chuck Palahniuk
I was very glad afterwards to have had the interview; for, in her face and in her voice, and in her touch, she gave me the assurance, that suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham's teaching, and had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be. Charles Dickens
She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Potter has been crossing lines ever since he first arrived at this school... J. K. Rowling
[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, "What are my big scenes?" and then get every drop of juice out of them."(Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975) P. G. Wodehouse
No matter how much long-distance running might suit me, of course there are days when I feel kind of lethargic and don’t want to run. Actually, it happens a lot. On days like that, I try to think of all kinds of plausible excuses to slough it off. Once, I interviewed the Olympic running Toshihiko Seko, just after he retired from running and became manager of the S& B company team. I asked him, “Does a runner at your level ever feel like you’d rather not run today, like you don’t want to run... Haruki Murakami
In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting. Norman Schwarzkopf

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