#k

People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place. ↗

— Jim Talent

#before #ever #harder #people #place

The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening. ↗

— Jim Talent

#day #elections #freedom #happening #iraq

Well look, I don't begrudge anybody in the voters and their views. ↗

— Jim Talent

#i #look #their #views #voters

When we get the private sector going through job creation and growth, then the governments at all level have revenues to do the things that they need to do. And that's why it's so important to get this economy moving, to get jobs created. We can't keep going on with this anemic recovery. ↗

— Jim Talent

#creation #economy #get #going #governments

Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that. ↗

— Gay Talese

#another day #better #chance #close #come

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work. ↗

— Gay Talese

#example #for example #many #programs #some

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel. ↗

— Gay Talese

#alive #am #america #character #city

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about. ↗

— Gay Talese

#am #come #could #i #i am

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work. ↗

— Gay Talese

#finished work #i #i think #i write #like

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week. ↗

— Gay Talese

#alimony #better #court #deal #different