#ra

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#first #job #library #local #prophecy

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#control #day #go #going #good

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. ↗

— Franklin Pierce

#confederacy #dangers #disregarded #general #government

People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#against #always #banding #different #masses

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#get #literary #schism #success #unwritten

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#also #awareness #commentary #dickens #fiction

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#decide #finish #fix #force #garbage

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#cure #deteriorate #devastating #disease #family

From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#among #between #dime #extremely #funny

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#because #been #big #big thing #finally