"I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible."

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Source : "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, transcripts.cnn.com. October 27, 2006.

Connie Willis

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“The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.”

Source : "In our search for Britishness, we should put out more flags - or none" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2006.
“I really like to have a coffee shop next door and be able to smoke a cigarette. I'm a city person; I regard nature as something hostile and problematic. I do enjoy it when I get out there, but it is mostly against my will. It's a bit of an awkward thing to say - people really don't like it when you say that.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Being a champion and staying that way is the most difficult thing to deal with. Everyone sees you as a target. They want to bring you down. I should always train in order to be at a higher level. Other fighters are training hard as well. I have to be a step or more ahead.”
“I used to listen to so much doo-wop, and I've talked a lot about gospel music, but I realised a lot of that language came from doo-wop music. You know, "I Asked the Lord Above," "Heaven Sent Me an Angel." That's rock-'n-roll, and that's where a lot of this language is coming from. Also, I've said before that as soon as you start having a conversation with Jesus in a song you know you're dealing with issues of morality and how fragile it is to be human. It's a shortcut to putting those ideas across.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.”
“Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.”
“Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople.”
“Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 393-94, Epigrams, CXL. 1, 1922.

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