"Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway.”

Source : Carlton Pearson (1992). “I've got a feelin' everything's gonna be all right”
“Different people, different backgrounds, different ideals... We walk in different doors at the beginning of the day, and we walk out of different doors at the end of the day. But when it is time to go out on that field, we all go through the same door.”
“We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.”
“Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers had ever heard of the place. At last their supervisor showed up and set them straight by informing them that the city they had always referred to as 'Firenze' was in reality called Florence.”
“It is a surreal life living on a television series set, and especially when I go out in public. I have people who recognize me and will come up to me, saying how much they enjoy seeing me, asking for a picture, and I still think to myself, "Uh, why?"”

Source : Source: www.nerdprobs.com
“They say that at that moment you didn't do this, you didn't do that, but at that time I didn't have the means. I didn't have an army to stop the killings. I'm not Moses, I can't do miracles.”
“In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.”
“I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.”

Source : Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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