Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.
0What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.
0What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.
0I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
0I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.
0The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
0What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
0When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.
0I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.
0When I was in the military, I socked away $100 every month. When I was discharged in 1954, I got home at 5 A.M. By 10 A.M., I was pulling out of a foreign car dealership in Pasadena in a new Jaguar XK120.
0She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would put the kids to bed, and then I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so I would write.
0After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
0I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.
0As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
0I couldn't see him as a celebrity, nor just an incredible basketball player. He was my sweet husband and the beautiful father of our children. He was mine. He was my everything.
0The outpouring of love and support that my family has felt from around the world has been so uplifting. Thank you so much for all your prayers.
0I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.
0It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.
0It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.
0Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.
0Everything isn't permanent, so don't pretend that it is. Everything's supposed to move and shift.
0I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.
0I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.
0Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.
0I write linearly without knowing the full story. I discover it as I write it.
0All the women close to me - my mother, sister, wife and friends - are strong and independent.
0There's nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing.
0As much as you want Liverpool to lose, it is my job to do everything that I can to help Liverpool to win as there are millions of people around the world who want that to happen so I really don't want to let them down.
Liverpool F.C.0The slavery at Bufford's was too fresh in my recollection to let me care to bind myself again. From the time that I took my nose off that lithographic stone, I have had no master, and never shall have any.
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