#lit

I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#did #eating #fat #full #got

People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it. ↗

— Ted Allen

#cook #dinner #especially #ever #fancy

They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#brooke #built #down #i #lay

In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult. ↗

— Ted Allen

#casting #difficult #pretty #show

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#i #i write #problem #readers #sentimentality

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#assimilate #different #different view #information #leader

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#exists #eye #image #mind #only

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#career #created #felt #fled #having

I don't think there's a whole lot of class literature at all. I think most of that has become racially based, and people don't think of it as being class literature. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#become #being #class #i #i think

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#felt #gap #i #i think #know