"However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously."

-- Wally Lamb

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“So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.”
“The dangers that exist are real, but only illustrate the fact that men and women need Christ. The suffering and dying of missionaries advance the Kingdom as nothing else could and the blood of the saints has ever been the seed and fuel of gospel advance.”
“There are two kinds of people in the worldâ€”only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either deadÂ inÂ sin or deadÂ toÂ sin.”
“The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.”

Source : Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.122, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
“I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.”
“I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.”

Source : "Kara DioGuardi's 'A Helluva High Note': Quit Not Fired From 'American Idol' and More Secrets" by Kate Aurthur, www.thedailybeast.com. April 25, 2011.
“I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.”

Source : "Talking About Singing with Anna Camp". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2012.
“Millions of Americans have already convicted Mrs. Clinton on many, many things. They will never vote for her.”

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