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Tod Goldberg has long been one of the most interesting writers around, and Gangsterland is his biggest and best book so far.
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The only way to be happy and be a more enjoyable person to be around is to embrace what you've got. Everyone has issues about their body, but I feel confident now. I'm healthy and happy.
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God has presented this opportunity for us and we are stepping up to the plate. The pastor knows the area we work in and makes it much easier.
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Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
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I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.
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The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.
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When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?"
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I suppose also that watching marketing and publicity stuff play out from behind the scenes, making those plans and seeing each piece fall into place or not, each year, for each book, has made me a little more tranquil about the process for my own book than I might otherwise be.
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You may have lost your way more than a little bit, but I believe you can find your way back. That's the trick. Finding your way back.
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I do like when you find a true personal relationship with any of the characters, you like to make that honest connection. And every once in a while, there's that glimmer where you got that line in where something happens, where you get to really talk.
