"The fact that war is the word we use for almost everythingâ€”on terrorism, drugs, even povertyâ€”has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?"

-- Glenn Greenwald

#War Quotes #Drug Quotes #Use Quotes

“I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.”
“You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.”
“It's fun to play somebody who has no boundaries or rules. There's no book you can read on how to play a witch, so you just create a version. It's really great!”
“Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate. As President J. Reuben Clark Jr. declared, motherhood is â€˜as divinely called, as eternally important in its place as the Priesthood itself.â€™”
“Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you can lose yourself in for a few weeks and then wrap up, or grow tired of and abandon and (maybe) return to later. They can cuddle you sweetly, or make you get on your knees and beg.”
“I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.”
“I learned a lot from Jack Welch about how to run a business.”
“I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.”

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