#ted

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#ghost #had #i #long #long time

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#even #expected #home #housework #intellectuals

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous. ↗

— Sister Parish

#admitted #aunt #even #every #family

The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come. ↗

— Sister Parish

#interrupted #last #lives #many #occasions

Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs. ↗

— Nick Park

#bigger #cat #could #dog #feel

When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear American voices on them, and we held out. ↗

— Nick Park

#america #american #british #clear #first

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be. ↗

— Ruth Park

#i #never #passion #storyteller #understood

The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA. ↗

— Candace Parker

#been #build #committed #making #moves

I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for. ↗

— Christopher Parker

#also #always #doctor #i #i always

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts. ↗

— Evan Parker

#always #comes #elements #expected #happens