Jeff Kinney I’m not very charismatic or telegenic. I feel bad for the kids waiting three hours in line for their book to be signed. – Jeff Kinney Bad Quotes Book Quotes Charismatic Quotes Feel Quotes Hours Quotes Kids Quotes Signed Quotes Telegenic Quotes Waiting Quotes My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for. I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I’d written a children’s book.
Margaret Hoover More and more Republicans are recognizing and respecting the essential dignity of individuals who are gay and deserve the full rights of citizenship, just like their straight brothers and sisters. – Margaret Hoover
Matt Dillon One thing that everybody told me about directing was, ‘Never compromise’. And the whole job is a compromise. So it’s very paradoxical. How do you not compromise when the whole thing is about compromise? – Matt Dillon
Norman MacCaig And some poets are far better read off the page because they’re very bad speakers. I’m thinking of one in particular whom I won’t name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping. – Norman MacCaig
GovernmentSarah Palin Common sense tells us that the government’s attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. – Sarah Palin
Sarah Parcak There’s even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you to literally strip away vegetation and see entire cities beneath the rain forest canopy. This is the unbelievable future of archaeology. – Sarah Parcak
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