"You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on what you perceive to be their failures of conscience."

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Source : "Carolyn Hax Live: Ignorant of fry equity". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 08, 2016.

Carolyn Hax

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“The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft.”
“When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.”
“The people who will succeed fifteen years from now, the countries which will succeed, are those which are most based on a sustainable vision of the world. That is what we should be training people to do”
“I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels”
“At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That's wonderful, and I'm happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?”

Source : Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
“I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.”
“You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.”

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