"However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned."

-- Helen Dunmore

#Writing Quotes #Historical Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“On my first day shooting '13 Going on 30,' Jennifer Garner had yellow tulips sent to my trailer. I'll never forget them.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“So here's the situation confronting the drug firms: The drugs cost more to make, but they can't charge more for them. What do they do? Increasingly, the U.S. market is driving them toward drugs aimed at the diseases of richer, older Americans and away from antimicrobials, vaccines, and the like.”
“I got into politics when I was eight years old.”
“Two forms of fat that are vitally important for brain health are cholesterol and saturated fat.”
“Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.”
“And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.”

Source : Letter to Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, as translated by James Harvey Robinson (1898), April 26, 1336.
“For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It.”
“When I'm older, I want to have my own workout clothes line, like leggings and cute jackets in bright and fun colors.”

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