"If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation."

-- Julianna Baggott

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“I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.”
“If you write what you know about, you will always be on safe ground. I am very edgy and nervous about going into territories I know nothing about. That's why you don't find much high finance, group sex, or yachting parties in my stories.”
“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”

Source : Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.53, Dial Press
“Given all the money printing that is going on globally - and not just in the US - and given that the total credit as a percent of the advanced economies is now 30% higher than in 2007 before the crisis hit, I think that gold is a good insurance.”
“Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.”
“I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.”
“You’re either the one that creates the automation or you’re getting automated.”

Source : "Soon There May Only Be 2 Types Of Jobs: Coding Computers And Getting Bossed Around By Computers" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. August 13, 2014.
“Testimony is a result of choice, not circumstance. In all seasons of my life, testimony has been a conscious choice - and this choice has given everything else in my life meaning. Building a testimony is the beginning of building a happy life. Testimony grows step by step as we invest the effort to exercise faith and hope as active parts of everyday living. Prayer is a major tool to help us gain faith and hope.”

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