#bs

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#elite #i #long #more #observed

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#diet #gymnast #healthier #i #obsessive

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#always #behind #dad #daughter #deserved

I intentionally built a business that has absolutely nothing to do with appearance. ↗

— Kathy Ireland

#absolutely nothing #appearance #built #business #i

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#hope #substance #unseen

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#default #fact #government #inside #journalists

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. ↗

— Washington Irving

#continually #ears #ever #fat #heading

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. ↗

— Washington Irving

#create #disadvantage #every #irresistible #minds

I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#i #immigrants #jobs #know #like

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#allowed #australia #disaster #government #i