#ed

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#because #i #new #new york #novel

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#dedicate #earning #knows #life #money

JJ Abrams is definitely a guy that when he calls, you want to answer. He's incredibly focused. When he was shooting the pilot on 'Lost,' we'd do a take and he'd go back to his tent and be working on the first episodes of 'Lost' as well as the cliffhanger for the eighth season of 'Alias.' He's an incredible multitasker. ↗

— Jorge Garcia

#back #calls #definitely #eighth #episodes

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance. ↗

— David Garrick

#importance #indebted #three-fourths #you #your

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#class #games #gold #gold medal #graduated

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half. ↗

— William E. Geist

#been #brown #could #dollar #first-class

To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country. ↗

— Nancy Travis

#buy #country #crowded #doctor #doing

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#available #cannot #consequences #food #into

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens. ↗

— Carlos Mesa

#citizens #committed #create #feel #must

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge. ↗

— Paul Goldberger

#bank #cutting #cutting edge #edge #large