Candice Millard quote: "As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer."

I'm very interested in science.
CANDICE MILLARD

Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the...
CANDICE MILLARD

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
CANDICE MILLARD

When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore ...
CANDICE MILLARD

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely i...
CANDICE MILLARD

'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United...
CANDICE MILLARD

As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance...
CANDICE MILLARD

I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and ther...
CANDICE MILLARD

With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But G...
CANDICE MILLARD

If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest rew...
CANDICE MILLARD

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.
MILLARD FILLMORE

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protec...
MILLARD FILLMORE

You can't run a business without taking risks.
MILLARD DREXLER

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that...
MILLARD FULLER

People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what...
MILLARD DREXLER

If you don't get trained for your SATs in America today, you are at a disadvantage. Training is ...
MILLARD DREXLER

I like to prove things wrong.
MILLARD DREXLER

The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color.
MILLARD DREXLER

I love to work. I have a passion for what I do.
MILLARD DREXLER

I spot detail quickly.
MILLARD DREXLER

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.
MILLARD DREXLER

Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't ...
MILLARD DREXLER

I'm looking for best practices constantly. Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incred...
MILLARD DREXLER

I'm always looking over my shoulder, needing to stay ahead of the game.
MILLARD DREXLER

I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows...
MILLARD DREXLER

People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad ...
MILLARD DREXLER

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how...
MILLARD DREXLER

What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.
MILLARD DREXLER

I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A bea...
MILLARD DREXLER

Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.
GLENDA MILLARD

It would be a better building if we went to Samuelson. It will be a much safer environment. It's a n...
BRIAN MILLARD

Certainly, we want the best and the brightest, particularly with our financial needs and issues. We'...
BRIAN MILLARD

I think we need to clean our own house. People feel that they are not heard.
BRIAN MILLARD

I advocate that we look within. Leadership without deep roots in the community isn't as sympathetic ...
BRIAN MILLARD

People that were really good candidates didn't make the cut, and I'd like to know why.
BRIAN MILLARD

The more Randy does with his property, the more he stabilizes the area. We'd be tickled to death if ...
BRIAN MILLARD

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved t...
MILLARD FILLMORE

If that happens, that might make me cry. I wouldn't know what to do.
CHAD MILLARD

We've been united. But I didn't think it was going to get this big.
CHAD MILLARD

It was a great chance to play in front of our home crowd and get a sense of what Freedom Hall can be...
CHAD MILLARD

Our goal was to just play and keep the game close. We came close, we did a good job of that. It wasn...
CHAD MILLARD

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life tha...
MILLARD FULLER

You don't sue somebody if you think they're going to be complementary or helpful to you,
MILLARD FULLER

The girl danced like light on water. After I'd watched for a while I looked with all of me, not just...
GLENDA MILLARD

There are a lot of people who are opposed to anything and some of them live in the Down Under area. ...
CHARLES MILLARD

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each othe...
MILLARD FULLER

The nourishment is palatable.
MILLARD FILLMORE

We're expecting as many as 2,500 students.
BOB MILLARD

And then store that video away from your home. It's a good reminder if you do have a loss, you can g...
BOB MILLARD

Look at what a college textbook costs, for example. You can spend $300 or $400 just for a textbook, ...
BOB MILLARD

We at the college level need to make sure when students come in they have the support they need to s...
BILL MILLARD

This group of students is one of the fastest-growing majors in America. They come in and don't know ...
BILL MILLARD

Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white d...
GLENDA MILLARD

We are pleased to have been selected by Azure Dynamics for this particular project. Azure Dynamics h...
MILLARD FIREBAUGH

We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the ...
GLENDA MILLARD

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and i...
MILLARD FILLMORE

It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress.
MILLARD FILLMORE

Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling st...
GLENDA MILLARD

I would say Roy Furman is a very substantial, very intelligent financial partner in this enterprise.
CHARLES MILLARD

His presence is going to create stability.
CHARLES MILLARD

...your zeal to face life's rough and tumble, your ardor to accept the responsibilities of adulthood...
MILLARD KAUFMAN

We are very pleased to have been selected by Sun Edison as their strategic partner for photovoltaic ...
MILLARD FIREBAUGH

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights...
MILLARD FILLMORE

... we sat back and let the moon shine itself all over her, and we saw that Tia was full of light. B...
GLENDA MILLARD

Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every...
GLENDA MILLARD

He was like a shattered stained-glass window: something beautiful that's broken; a million colours f...
GLENDA MILLARD

Faith without works is as dead as a doornail.
MILLARD FULLER

I wish we had a better field today. Taconic played very well today, especially in the trenches. We w...
FRAN MILLARD

Turnovers were big, and the turnover-that-wasn't was even bigger.
FRAN MILLARD

I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, wor...
GLENDA MILLARD

Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.
GLENDA MILLARD

Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.
GLENDA MILLARD

The wheels hummed lullabies on the liquorice road ...
GLENDA MILLARD

The high school coaches have been working with the kids for the last few weeks, which has really hel...
MARK MILLARD

Anti-inflammatory medication such as an inhaled steroid should keep kids with asthma from having att...
MARK MILLARD

You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if th...
GLENDA MILLARD

I couldn't tell what colour her eyes were. They were wet and dark and shining, like pools of deep, s...
GLENDA MILLARD

A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, wh...
CANDICE OLSON

I'm more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to exp...
CANDICE ACCOLA

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
CANDICE BERGEN

It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
CANDICE BERGEN

Were women meant to do everything-work and have babies?
CANDICE BERGEN

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. Peopl...
CANDICE BERGEN

Maybe if people are getting worn out with reality shows, which they don't seem to be, comedies will ...
CANDICE BERGEN

I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed....
CANDICE BERGEN

I remember the pilot like it was yesterday, ... From the day I read that script, there was some kind...
CANDICE BERGEN

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
CANDICE BERGEN

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans
CANDICE BERGEN

I'm usually bikini-ready all year round.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's on...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

Victoria's Secret is like a big family.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me....
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Tw...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

I try to train as much as I can, as much as my schedule allows it.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

I am healthy and happy.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

Women are complicated. We all know that.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kin...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's jus...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in ...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I f...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I ...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

My ideal Valentine's Day is spending it with someone you are in love with and for that someone t...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They ju...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is se...
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. ...
CANDICE PATTON

We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
CANDICE PATTON

When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
CANDICE PATTON

Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
CANDICE PATTON

The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.
CANDICE PATTON

Mom raised me all by herself, and although we went through our share of lean years, she always worke...
CANDICE OLSON

I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept ma...
CANDICE OLSON

There are designers who say, 'Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.' I usually start by knock...
CANDICE OLSON

It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it...
CANDICE OLSON

Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Li...
CANDICE OLSON

Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want...
CANDICE OLSON

We're a very active family, and I like everything in its place. I'm all about designing ever...
CANDICE OLSON

The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room.
CANDICE OLSON

Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take...
CANDICE OLSON

In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
CANDICE OLSON

I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going ...
CANDICE OLSON

I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
CANDICE OLSON

I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best yo...
CANDICE OLSON

Why have one chandelier when you can have two?
CANDICE OLSON

Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will hav...
CANDICE OLSON

I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better...
CANDICE OLSON

I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abili...
CANDICE OLSON

I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxuriou...
CANDICE OLSON

With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
CANDICE OLSON

One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcom...
CANDICE OLSON

Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.
CANDICE OLSON

Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room wi...
CANDICE OLSON

I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I ...
CANDICE OLSON

Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm ge...
CANDICE GLOVER

I'm such a perfectionist.
CANDICE GLOVER

I remember, when I was younger, it was such a big fantasy for me. Now that I actually have a career ...
CANDICE GLOVER

In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, ...
CANDICE GLOVER

It's funny because ever since 'American Idol,' people look at me without makeup and thin...
CANDICE GLOVER

My main focus is to help people through music.
CANDICE GLOVER

Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, s...
CANDICE GLOVER

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choic...
CANDICE BERGEN

But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
CANDICE BERGEN

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - bu...
CANDICE BERGEN

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It hap...
CANDICE BERGEN

It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
CANDICE BERGEN

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age ...
CANDICE BERGEN

I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she woul...
CANDICE BERGEN

I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
CANDICE BERGEN

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
CANDICE BERGEN

I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collap...
CANDICE BERGEN

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
CANDICE BERGEN

Glamorized... am I glamorous?
CANDICE BERGEN

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
CANDICE BERGEN

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
CANDICE BERGEN

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
CANDICE BERGEN

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
CANDICE BERGEN

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was mo...
CANDICE BERGEN

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
CANDICE BERGEN

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
CANDICE BERGEN

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
CANDICE BERGEN

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. Peopl...
CANDICE BERGEN

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by...
CANDICE BERGEN

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
CANDICE BERGEN

I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My ...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afra...
CANDICE ACCOLA

If I'm getting dressed up, I love Alice + Olivia, they have great pieces. I still look at all of...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I love spin classes. I'm also very big on music, so I make a mix on my iPod that's 45 minute...
CANDICE ACCOLA

For skincare, I'm a Clean and Clear girl. Especially with the humidity in Georgia, Clean and Cle...
CANDICE ACCOLA

It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on ...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I love Amy Adams. She is wonderful. Evan Rachel Wood is a blast. I am also really excited about Ari ...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I have a collection of impractical vintage dresses and jackets. I guess I never grew out of the '...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I've dated people where we traveled horribly together, and if one thing went wrong, it was horri...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonat...
CANDICE ACCOLA

There's so many great designers. I'm a little bit of a vintage junkie when it comes to going...
CANDICE ACCOLA

Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video'...
CANDICE ACCOLA

In case you haven't heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best sum...
CANDICE ACCOLA

My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Espec...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I thought I'd be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind...
CANDICE ACCOLA

It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a ...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I burn very easily, so if I forget sunscreen, I will be a tomato by the end of the day. I'm very...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and...
CANDICE ACCOLA

With 'The Vampire Diaries,' it's not just a tease, especially with the relationships. Yo...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I'm a television junkie.
CANDICE ACCOLA

When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works ...
CANDICE ACCOLA

I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy br...
CANDICE BERGEN

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by bri...
CANDICE BERGEN

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone les...
CANDICE BERGEN

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I thin...
CANDICE BERGEN

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to...
CANDICE BERGEN

I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
CANDICE SWANEPOEL

Things have changed a lot since the earth was cooling and I was a teenage girl, but the basics of te...
CANDICE OLSON

The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.
CANDICE OLSON

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

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As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

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