#here

I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out. ↗

— Lee Child

#i #itself #just #out #pivotal

Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work to convince them that they will enjoy it, and even if they don't, to allow us just for 14 days to create that work of art. ↗

— Christo

#allow #art #beings #convince #create

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#could #exploring #figure #frontier #gather

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#after #aids #been #check #children

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#felt #grew #high #high school #i

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#anywhere #become #certainly #down #end

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don't, I don't think you've ever really lived. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#bit #ever #go #i #i think

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#back #i #into #just #lifted

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#contemporary #contemporary history #contribution #ends #expose

I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#album #angeles #awakening #circle #city