"I am not at all a chocoholic. I would rather eat anchovy toast."

-- Joanne Harris

“Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.”
“In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.”
“Using SROI to explore the value of our online question and answer service, askTheSite, helped us develop new mechanisms for speaking to young people and gain a real insight into the impact of our work. The project enabled us to demonstrate YouthNets commitment to robust impact measurement as well as our commercial approach to project evaluation. Perhaps most importantly, being able to assign a monetary value to askTheSite has enabled YouthNet to convey to current and potential funders how valuable the service is for both young people and the wider society in a language that they understand”
“Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?”
“One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.”
“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”
“To be quite frank and honest with you, it drives me absolutely crazy when my kids fight, the sound of them fighting and not getting along.”
“You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.”

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