"I'm an accidental writer."

-- William P. Young

“A family is a burial mound of its own doings and sayings ...”
“People are already p*ssed off at me because I'm athletic and beautiful; to be smart in addition to that... it's like, too much.”
“Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.”
“Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'”
“Our old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a place where decent people could escape the wreckage of failed lives and start over. Come along, the dream whispers, and you can have another chance. We still listen to promises in the wind. This time, we think, weâ€™ll get it right.”
“We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two healthcare workers who contracted the disease from a dying man. They are isolated. There is no information to suggest that the virus has spread to anyone in the general population in America. Not one person in the general population in the United States.”

Source : "Smith: Ebola panic 'not worth the ratings'" by Hadas Gold, www.politico.com. October 15, 2014.
“I worked so much when my first son was born that I missed a lot.”

Source : Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2012.
“Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple operations, to judgments so brief, that they never lose sight of the evidence that serves as their guide.”

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