#boo

That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#available #bar #bar mitzvah #been #booked

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs. ↗

— Roger Waters

#always #anybody #apart #books #come

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do. ↗

— Emily Watson

#child #grew #i #lot #loved

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#attention #beach #book #capital #considers

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#both #children #coffee #cut #degrees

I let the food speak for itself and the food always wins... ↗

— Rachel Frank

#vegan #vegetarian #food

Each individual has a unique food personality. The key is finding the balance point at which you feel great and are healthy. ↗

— Rachel Frank

#raw-food #vegan #food

For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#conversations #e-mail #engaged #facebook #few

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#becomes #bestseller #book #chick #fascination

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#different #different things #first #got #had