"I also read a lot of nonfiction. I just got "Nixonland" by Rick Perlstein. I felt like what with everything that is going on with the president [Donald trump] and the parallels with [Richard] Nixon's presidency, I needed to know more about the man."

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Source : Source: www.bostonglobe.com

Laila Lalami

#Men Quotes #President Quotes #Nonfiction Quotes

“There are times when we do not recognize that it is time for us to move forward. When life is ready for us to move and we resist, life will move us by any means necessary. What may feel like a disaster is actually a graduation. Remain open to being guided, supported and protected by the universe.”
“All my good movies, nobody sees.”

Source : "Chris Evans Complains That 'Nobody Sees My Good Movies'", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2011.
“I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?”
“If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.”
“I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.”
“Struggle is what it means to be alive and free.”

Source : David Budbill (2012). “Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse”, p.43, Copper Canyon Press
“I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there is a large deal of detection in the short story.”
“If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.”

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