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“The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.”
Source : Roundtable with Jon Meacham, www.newsweek.com. June 26, 2009.
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“But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen. [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]”
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“So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.”
Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.74, Penguin
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“I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.”
Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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“It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.”
Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.187, Oxford University Press
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“The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.”
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“The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.”
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“I would categorically not rule out that it's not the last season of Community. Does that make sense? I would love nothing more than for Community to have a following on Friday, and to be able to continue it.”