"I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I entered my teens, I got more into horror and science fiction and wrote a lot of short stories. A literary education complicated things and for many years I wrote nothing but poetry. Then I got back to story-telling."

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Source : Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2008.

Peter Robinson

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“You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible.”
“Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks.”
“My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.”
“My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.”
“It’s not a playoff game, it’s like the Super Bowl. … This is going to be a blood bath out there. I know they’re going to be ready to play. This is going to be a physical game. I’m sure that I’m going to be ready and I know my boys are going to be ready to back it up.”
“Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.”
“When you blow it, God still celebrates His Son in you. The litmus test of whether or not you understand the gospel is what you do when Â you fail. Do you run from Him and go clean yourself up a little bit before you come back into the throne room? Or do you approach the throne of grace with confidence? If you don't approach the throne of grace with confidence, you don't understand the gospel.”
“A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267, Epigrams, LXXXII. 1, 1922.

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