#vent

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

#balls #being #coach #describe #event

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them. ↗

— Dan O'Brien

#events #includes #just #just one #matter

We love because it's the only true adventure. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#because #love #only #true

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#forgets #homo #homo sapiens #inventions #invents

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.' ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#biography #considered #contains #degree #fiction

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#am #another #art #comes #conflict

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#aside #begin #complete #desk #drawer

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. ↗

— Barack Obama

#eventually #keep #make #path #progress

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan. ↗

— Barack Obama

#america #convention #everything #friends #happy