"I've heard people on panels say, 'You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,' and I just want to say, 'Shut up. Everything you're saying is wrong.' People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books."

-- Maureen Johnson

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“I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.”
“Early on, people invested in me because of my letters and then, somehow, after they invested, they stopped reading them.”
“James Brown opened at least six of our House of Blues clubs. He always delivered, but he demanded the respect of an emperor. But, come on, he's James Brown ! ... I got to play on stage with him. Did he ever fine me ? (Brown was known to fine players for flubbing notes or steps) - I would have loved to have been fined by James Brown !”
“These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.”

Source : "Bogut downplays injury concerns, relishes fresh start with Warriors". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. March 28, 2012.
“I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.”
“Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.”
“In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.”

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