"I think I have a very nice demeanor, but at the same time, when pushed, I will freak out. I have a backbone, but I don't feel like I'm terrible about it."

-- Debbie Gibson

#Nice Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Freak Quotes

“With the first kid, you micromanage it, making sure there's no hair out of place when it goes off to school. But by the third kid, it's more like, "Oh, you want to wear a splatter-painted, Hard Rock CafÃ© T-shirt for seven days in a row and not brush your hair? Go for it. Be who you want to be."”
“I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.”

Source : Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.99, Yearling
“Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.”
“Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.”
“Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.”
“A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.”
“Gustave Flaubert said, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi." It is not possible to write something you are not, but to have a new form, with a different hair color and a new body ... I do very little of that. That's why I keep bringing up the same people. I haven't given myself a hard time about it. But I can't make six new characters instead of one.”
“Everything you do is so personal. In the end, it doesn't matter so much if you write about your own life or not. It's going to be as much artifice when it comes out as a piece of music. Everything is in character in a way. But that's a great thing.”

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