"I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes to write chapters, and how you have to push everything else aside and really focus."

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Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

Melissa Harris-Perry

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Focus Quotes

“Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.”

Source : "Scotty McCreery Talks Fans, Faith & Post-'Idol' Fame". Interview with Beville Dunkerley, theboot.com. June 15, 2011.
“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”
“We were the most conservative revolutionaries in history.”
“It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.”
“I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your own death, it is that your upholstery is already dead around you.”
“Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.”

Source : "Obama's Big Screen Test". www.nytimes.com. February 21, 2007.
“Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.”

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