"It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college."

-- Sara Zarr

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“My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.”
“You won't find another Chaplin, you won't find another Keaton, because the school is closed.”
“Failure is often the line of least persistence.”
“School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.”
“Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.”

Source : "Jason Collins’ Courage in Coming Out" by Abbe Land, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2013.
“I'm working as hard as I can to get back to Packer Nation.”
“A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.”
“If I drive my car to the store, those carbon molecules that are emitted actually get into the atmosphere circulation systems and affect climate in a global basis. This is shocking, this is amazing! No one in the 18th Century would have believed that anything like this were at all possible and I don't think we have, as part of our common sense, morality, norms and values that are really responsive to those kinds of issues, to the kind of power that we now are able to exert over the future and over people who live very far from us.”

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