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“One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.”
Source : Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. September 6, 2006.
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“A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high gear. My workshop leader was a Harvard professor and editor. At the end of the week we met one-on-one over breakfast, and she said, in essence, "Look, you're ready to turn pro." She gave me a list of literary agents to query once I had something to show them. I came home and wrote my first real novel, and the agent that sold it to Tor Books was on that list.”
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“Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.”
Source : "Q&A: Earle takes songwriting break to honor Van Zandt". Interview with Robert Levine, www.reuters.com. April 24, 2009.
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“Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.”
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“Love is in the air everywhere I look around. Love is in the air every sight and every sound.”
Source : Song: Love Is In The Air
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“All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.”
Source : Thomas Bernhard (2010). “Gargoyles: A Novel”, p.40, Vintage
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“News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar.”
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“people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.”