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“Many writers hate the shilling process, and I understand that. However, it's really the only thing about the publication process you can somewhat control. You can't affect reviews. But you can try to find your book an audience. One of the problems with the book publishing industry is that their publicity efforts tend to be spent on people who already read, and know how to discover, literary fiction.”
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“Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.”
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“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?”
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“Wherever you are spiritually, whatever you have been through emotionally, you are already wrapped in the Lord’s embrace. Held by nail-scarred hands. Enfolded in the arms of One who believes in you, supports you, treasures you, and loves you.”
Source : Liz Curtis Higgs (2009). “Embrace Grace: Welcome to the Forgiven Life”, p.6, WaterBrook
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“In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place”
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“I didn't write the memoir with any sort of intention of feeling better. I wrote the memoir because I had a weird need to write a good story. But once I was done, I did feel better about myself. Not better, just calmer. Because a tremendous onus had been lifted off my day-to-day.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made.”
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“Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.”
Source : "What it Means to be a Human Being". John Trudell's speech in San Francisco, California, www.radio4all.net. March 2001.