"All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad."

-- Meg Cabot

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“I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields. ... I'm a country songwriter and we write cry-in-your-beer songs. That's what we do. Something that you can slow dance to...I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. ... Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.”
“Does man Progress? A thousand questions answered yesterday create a thousand questions today.”
“If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.”
“As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.”
“There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.”

Source : Charles Buck (1807). “A Theological Dictionary”, p.238
“I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time. I know that some of my colleagues disagree, but I believe in it.”

Source : Source: www.formula1.com
“I cannot get close to any you.”

Source : Nicole Brossard, Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood (2006). “Mauve Desert”, p.30, Coach House Books
“The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.”

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