"Several elements of the ADD mind favor creativity....As mentioned earlier, the term 'attention deficit' is a misnomer. It is a matter of attention inconsistency. While it is true that the ADD mind wanders when not engaged, it is also the case that the ADD mind fastens on to its subject fiercely when it is engaged. A child with ADD may sit for hours meticulously putting together a model airplane."

-- Edward Hallowell

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“The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Family is the root of all that is good in our lives, and I am so grateful for mine.”
“You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.”
“Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.”
“America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.”

Source : James Ellroy (2011). “American Tabloid: Underworld USA (1)”, p.3, Vintage
“My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it.”

Source : "The Lonely Dead". Book by Michael Marshall Smith, 2004.
“Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.”
“You know, there is an argument to be made that these extensions of unemployment benefits keep people from going and finding jobs. In fact there are some studies that have been done that show people stay on unemployment compensation and they don't look for a job until two or three weeks before they know the benefits are going to run out.”

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