I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before, and from other years, too; to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step. ~Tony Romo
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I don't know if I have a legacy, but I will say that I'm proud of the fact that I'm from a small town in a small state and I've had more than a small impact. ~Tinker Hatfield
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A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. ~John Bunyan
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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A little dog can start a hare, but it takes a big one to catch it. ~Irish Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. ~Barack Obama
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If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ~African Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
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The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ~Martha Reeves
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Taxes grow without rain. ~Jewish Proverb
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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. ~Ha-Joon Chang
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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