"It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!"

-- Kathryn Tucker Windham

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“I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most writers, the earmarks of thrift, if not outright povery, are evident.”
“I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.”
“The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range combined. Just a casual glance at the full pack sitting on the floor could give you a double hernia and fuse four vertebrae. After carrying the pack all day, you had to remember to tie one leg to a tree before you dropped it. Otherwise you would float off into space. The pack eliminated the need for any special kind of ground-gripping shoes, because your feet would sink a foot and a half into hard-packed earth, two inches into solid rock.”
“I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.”

Source : "Next Factor Q&A: 'Apart' Star Olesya Rulin". Interview with Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. March 5, 2012.
“An independent and free media is essential to ensure democracy.”
“We are on the brink of a new energy order. Over the next few decades, our reserves of oil will start to run out and it is imperative that governments in both producing and consuming nations prepare now for that time. We should not cling to crude down to the last drop â€“ we should leave oil before it leaves us. That means new approaches must be found soon..... The really important thing is that even though we are not yet running out of oil, we are running out of time.”
“I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.”
“All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.”

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