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There's different ways of presenting a pop group to the world. It doesn't have to be the same old poses.
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
I'm not interested in stories about movie stars. I couldn't care less what Steve Martin has on his mind.
A nation is the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.
If we won't fight injustice wherever we see it, then we are not safe from suffering injustice ourselves.
There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!
there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.
When students and liberals initially occupied Tahrir Square, it looked like it might be a passing thing.
This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.
One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.
I'm surprised when I see someone doing the logical, commonsense thing: Walk facing the oncoming traffic.
When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.
The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.
People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.
Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.
I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too.
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?
My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies.
If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved.
Baseball consists of a million threads of dullness, on a loom of ennui, woven into a tapestry of tedium.
Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.
One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.
In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.
Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.
I know as much as anyone how much her most fervent supporters want Hillary Clinton to run for president.
When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.
I want to thank Vox Media, The Verge, Recode, the 'Wall Street Journal,' and CNBC for giving me a voice.
The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.
If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.
What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
Success does not come to the most righteous and rigorously disciplined but to those who continue running.
I've always liked hills. I see a challenge, a goal, and I feel instantly galvanized to achieve that goal.
The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.
Gravy is persistently plagued by two problems. Problem number one - skin. And problem number two - lumps.
Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.