Jesmyn Ward My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers – how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren’t. – Jesmyn Ward Employers Quotes Friends Quotes Hand Quotes Housekeeper Quotes Lot Quotes Mom Quotes Relationship Quotes Spent Quotes Time Quotes Women Quotes That’s why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.
CarChris ReaChristmas If I’m ever stuck on the M25 – the ‘Road to Hell’ – I’ll wind the window down and start singing, ‘I’m driving home for Christmas’ at people in cars alongside. They love it. It’s like giving them a present. – Chris Rea
Jodie Turner-Smith People are making a lot more noise about representation and diversity. But I think modeling is one of the professions where people can be kind of racist. – Jodie Turner-Smith
Paula Hawkins My idea of fun is to sit looking at a blank wall in a cottage, making up stories in utter silence. The thought of going back to work in an office is horrendous. – Paula Hawkins
Munshi PremchandWedding Since the day Brahma created the world to this day, no one’s ever been able to satisfy a wedding guest. They always find some opportunity or other to find fault and criticise. One who can’t even afford a dry piece of bread at home becomes a lord at the wedding party. – Munshi Premchand
Barnaby C Keeney At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can’t tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me. – Barnaby C Keeney
Katie Hafner The story of the Web starts in 1980, when Berners-Lee, a young consulting physicist at the CERN physics laboratory near Geneva, grew frustrated with existing methods for finding and transferring information. – Katie Hafner
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