"The thing you start noticing as books go by, is that you become aware not only of a shape of a career, but of your themes and interests. You don't want writing tricks where you make the same joke every time, but you do start to notice what consumes your mind, or what drives you."

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Nathan Englander

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“If he'd done something to harm her, I would annihilate him.”
“For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.”

Source : "The Daily Balancing Act" by Willow Bay, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2007.
“People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.”
“It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.”

Source : Usenet article "Gay and straight", groups.google.com. February 14, 2003.
“Time's going to pass anyway, so it's prioritizing what to do with that.”
“The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.”

Source : Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.51, Pearson UK
“I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.”
“Other people canâ€™t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others donâ€™t make us impatient. We make ourselves impatient, through our expectations and demands, fixated attachments and stuckness.”

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