"Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus & weep to keep a diary."

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Source : "A teachable moment". Interview with John Lee, logger.believermag.com. August 6, 2013.

Alissa Nutting

#Trying Quotes #Curls Quotes #Giants Quotes

“Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.”
“It's as if I'm taking away his pain and he's taking away mine.”
“The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.”
“We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.”
“We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.”

Source : "Big Hurdles Remain To A Deal In Budget Talks" by John King, www.cnn.com. July 20, 1997.
“If you don't learn from your mistakes, then they become regrets.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Anyone who has property that exceed his needs, let him support someone whose property does not (meet his or her needs), and anyone whose food exceeds his needs, let him share it with someone who does not have food.”
“We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.”

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