"Of course. You get everything from books."

-- Gregory Maguire

“Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.”
“What if obese people couldn't get married?”
“Sometimes I stand there going, 'I'm not doing any of this right!' And then I get this big man belch out of her, and I go, 'Ah, we accomplished this together.'”
“I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it's horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.”
“So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.”
“Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.”

Source : "Zaha Hadid's Bach salon" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2009.
“This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.”
“I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.”

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