"But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples, and apple cheeks so rosy I appear in a perpetual blush. At five foot four, I barely squeak by average height. And then there's my voice: straight out of second grade. I come across so young and innocent and harmless that I have been carded for buying maple syrup. Tourists feel more safe approaching me for directions, telemarketers always ask if my mother is home, and waitresses always, always call me 'Hon."

Sarah Vowell

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“Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.”

Source : Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Evarts Perkins, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Park Bucker (2000). “To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe--Maxwell Perkins Correspondence”, p.128, Univ of South Carolina Press
“I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.”
“It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.”
“I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.”
“I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.”

Source : "Glenn Beck: An Hour With Author Vince Flynn". "Glenn Beck", www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2009.
“I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.”
“Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.”
“People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.”

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