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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#any #blame #called #congress #ever

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#believed #failure #i #important #lead

Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#any #better #distributed #down #every

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#about #act #apart #does #everyone

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#am #big #fiction #i #i am

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#buy #day #days #down #every

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #books #break #call #chapters

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #being #characters #come #even

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#characters #i #live #lives #putting

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#best #boundaries #death #divide #ends