Molly Antopol In terms of the Eastern Europe stories, my family is originally from there; even as a kid, it was the Russian writers I loved most, and I’ve spent a substantial amount of time there myself, traveling and on research grants. – Molly Antopol Eastern Quotes Europe Quotes Family Quotes Grants Quotes Kid Quotes Loved Quotes Originally Quotes Russian Quotes Spent Quotes Stories Quotes Substantial Quotes Terms Quotes Time Quotes Traveling Quotes Writers Quotes I always tell my students to seek out other writers as models, and though it took me years to heed my own advice, it really was life-altering when I found writers who wrote long stories, full of back story and side plots and sub-histories. One of the main reasons I write fiction is to try to understand what life is like for people other than myself, to try to see the world through my characters’ eyes. I often find that I’m able to understand certain emotional truths about my own life by exploring things from different vantages.
Chris Bosh You have to be ready to compete. Because lots of people dream that dream, to be the best at something. But are you ready to commit to the hard work that it takes to get there? For me, it just became a part of my life, and it was what it was. Another day, another basketball practice or another game. – Chris Bosh
George Will Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions. – George Will
Alex Cora My dad was a founder of our Little League chapter in my hometown so you talked baseball in our family for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Everybody says I was in diapers with a bat running around a Little League ballpark. – Alex Cora
Babyface Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren’t like producers, and can’t hear the diamond in the rough. – Babyface
Alex Gibney I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem. – Alex Gibney
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