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I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#absolute #against #characters #enough #i

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#collects #espionage #finished #finished product #gets

What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#biggest #could #gift #happen #i

I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#also #guitar #i #love #philharmonic

I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#august #back #band #been #celebrate

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#i #novel #old #sold #very

Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#days #i #little #myself #party

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#council #iraq #new #opportunity #relevant

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it'll flop. And that's when I really take a hard look at myself and say: 'Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it's talking about.' ↗

— Aziz Ansari

#absolutely #after #although #bunch #crowd

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#absolutely #always #calls #criticism #critics