#peri

Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job. ↗

— Jim Talent

#crises #effort #executive #experience #given

Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader. ↗

— Jim Talent

#business #business world #capacity #effective #ever

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#bored #bush #democracy #era #experienced

I think at the end of the day this movie is respecting what we as women go through as we grow up. The experiences, what we deal with, other women, things about images, things that we deal with as women. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#day #deal #end #end of the day #experiences

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do. ↗

— Amy Tan

#become #i #life #love #loved

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#been #else #experimental #few #here

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#believe #experience #fringes #funny #funny way

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#engage #extended #find #important #long

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#conceptual #different #different elements #elements #generated

You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#experience #into #just #kind #novel