"Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again."

-- Peter Ackroyd

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Psychics Quotes

“Follow your heart wherever it takes you. Nobody knows where the wind blows. No one can say.”

Source : Song: Follow Your Heart, Album: Follow Your Heart
“When I went to medical school, I was taught about two basic kinds of diabetes: juvenile onset and adult onset. From the time I did my training in medical school to the end of my residency we were already seeing the transformation of adult onset diabetes into Type II, which is what we call it now, which from my perspective is a euphemism we have draped over this condition to conceal the fact that what was a chronic disease in midlife is now epidemic in children. Frankly, Type II diabetes in a seven year old is adult onset diabetes. We just don't want to confront that unpleasant fact.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.”
“Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.”
“I do make a concscious effort to be genuine among other comedians. If I write something or try something that doesn't feel like me, I stop doing it.”
“You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.”

Source : "George Gerbner, 86; Educator Researched the Influence of TV Viewing on Perceptions" by Myrna Oliver, articles.latimes.com. December 29, 2005.
“Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.”
“Trump has a pretty remarkable ability, going back to when he was in business, to reframe defeats as wins. So he had four business bankruptcies and he found a way to say that those are actually wins for him.”

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