#cause

To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#bit #else #email #emails #everything

It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother. ↗

— Charles Pierce

#better #black #gay #mother #tell

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

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #been #born #gay #gay rights

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#anyone #assumed #autobiographical #because #books

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#because #gravitated #i #i think #interesting

I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music. ↗

— Robert Plant

#because #big-time #close #contact #enjoy

You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do. ↗

— Robert Plant

#fall #good #i #i do #just

Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially. ↗

— Dana Plato

#am #any #anything #because #developed

I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong. ↗

— Dana Plato

#doing #energy #go #i #ignore