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He Said, She Said. (White House style.)
On what she and Obama tell their daughters to help them achieve their goals: "Read, write, read, read. If the president were here--one of his greatest strengths is reading. That's one of the reasons why he's a good communicator, why he's such a good writer. He's a voracious reader. So we're trying to get our girls, no matter what, to just be--to ( Read more... ) -
He Said, She Said.
"When we read nonfiction, we try to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we try to catch the author in a truth."
-- Silver Sparrow author Tayari Jones, in an interview on NPR
Thanks for the quote, Sylvia. :)
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Show the world the content of your character.
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is... What are you doing for others?"
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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He Said, She Said. (AND Of intimidating and impenetrable fogs.)
"Write even if you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing,
and aren't writing particularly well."
-- Agatha Christie
Thanks for the quote, Joyce.
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Heheheheh. (source site: cgu.edu)
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He Said, She Said.
"I'd earned the 100+ rejection slips I had by the time I made my first sale, failing on my way to success, using every failure as the goad to push myself to learn more, to do better...
You have to work for it. You have to practice for it. And you have to have the courage to fail for it---to fall on your face, get back up, and do it again."
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He Said, She Said.
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how... The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
-- Agnes de Mille
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He Said, She Said.
"If you're a writer, you're giving a voice to the people who have
struggled all their lives to give words to the same thoughts you
think."
-- Holly Lisle
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He Said, She Said.
"Do not expect the world to grovel on its knees to meet you. Stand on your feet, climb ladders, skyscrapers, and mountains, build yourself wings and learn to fly...but no matter what challenge the world throws at you, rise up to meet it, no matter how high you must soar to do so.
Write with joy."
-- Holly Lisle
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He Said, She Said.
Let's have some fun.
"Inside every older person is a younger person--wondering what the hell happened." ~Cora Harvey Armstrong
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission." ~Eleanor Roosevelt
"Behind every successful man is a surprised woman." ~Maryon Elspeth Pearson
"Old age ain't no place for sissies." ~actress Bette ( Read more... ) -
He Said, She Said.
"When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place." -- Unknown
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." -- Japanese proverb
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