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“I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.”
Source : "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.
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“You owe it to yourself to make your creative development a top priority.”
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“Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.”
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“The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.”
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“Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.”
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“Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced”
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“My routine is really based around my kids, and I try not to hold myself to a schedule, because it is always changing. What has been the most influential thing to help me keep my center is to set priorities and stick to them.”
Source : "Trista Sutter from The Bachelorette: Spreading the Gift of Gratitude". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”