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When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who'd just bought two of... - Emma Tennant

When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who'd just bought two of my books for pounds 500.

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I've always been kind of an information sponge.

I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The weight of the world on my shoulders was something that I had to let go.

The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.

Bruce Springsteen

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

I can accept defeat, but I love to win and be competitive. It is my job, and I love it.

I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

The way our government handled the Chibok girls case goes beyond an election matter. This is not a one-time issue we discuss over elections. We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.

Obiageli Ezekwesili

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

Rick Springfield

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

W. Somerset Maugham