"Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish."

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Source : FaceBook post by John Jakes from Sep 19, 2014

John Jakes

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“The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.”
“The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.”

Source : Howard Fast (1978). “The immigrants”, G K Hall & Co
“I would say "These Days." It was the title song to an album I put out, and it's really this song that you'll hear throughout the episodes and the season in the show. I write all my music, I'm an independent artist so we do it all in-house and that song embodies exactly what the title says.”
“Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.”
“America is a great country. I've been in the south, in the center and in the north. I like it. Americans are very good people. There's just too much air-conditioning.”
“Bureaucratic solutions to problems of practice will always fail because effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of practice are not simple, predictable, or standardized. Consequently, instructional decisions cannot be formulated on high then packaged and handed down to teachers.”

Source : Linda Darling-Hammond (1997). “The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools That Work”, Jossey-Bass
“Worship comes from a thankful heart.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 28, 2016
“I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.”

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