Sharon Shinn
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DAVE PIRNER When I was hiking, I would bring the literary works that were about that place in my pack - and I wo... IAN MARSHALL I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I s... ZELJKO IVANEK GIGI HADID It was always a dream of mine. When I was in high school I used to write poems for my friends. And t... CYNTHIA VELENO It was always a dream of mine. When I was in high school I used to write poems for my friends. And t... CYNTHIA VELENO I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would ge... STEVE BERRY DANIEL TAMMET It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind.... BILL MEDLEY MAXINE KUMIN SCOTT ADAMS I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occup... CALLAN MCAULIFFE WARREN SPECTOR ALEKSANDAR HEMON When I was pregnant, a few of my friends told me that their babies slept in bed with them. I remembe... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visce... BEN MARCUS TAYLOR SWIFT It can't be that difficult to build a great thermostat. So I decided to figure out: What would t... TONY FADELL ORHAN PAMUK BRIAN SELZNICK KRISTIN CAVALLARI I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up ... NATASHA LEGGERO GRANDMA MOSES BAT FOR LASHES PHIL COLLINS I started getting Twitter followers after I started doing press for 'Fargo.' One of my best ... ALLISON TOLMAN HARRY MATHEWS I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short storie... SAM ABELL My second thought was my wife (Cyndi) and my children, and how quickly I could prepare them for what... MARK RICHARDS BRUCE COVILLE I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' ... CARL BARKS R. A. SALVATORE It got to the point where most of my time went toward writing novels. I would still occasionally wri... TIM PRATT BRENDON URIE RAINI RODRIGUEZ MICHELLE OBAMA I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me... LAURA HILLENBRAND I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not... EUGENE LEVY JASPER FFORDE RASHIDA JONES JEAN GENET If I hadn't gone into acting, then I would have perhaps become an animator. RUSSELL TOVEY BILL COSBY ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT My father would leave home for seven or eight months of the year trying to pursue his hockey career.... BERNICE CARNEGIE DOROTHY ALLISON I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' com... ANDY BIERSACK I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done. NATALIE COLE BRYCE COURTENAY CLAIRE DANES I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about t... LLOYD C. DOUGLAS In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you're born with the title... PILOU ASBAEK JESSIE J I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years st... GRAEME BASE If you're afraid of death, I would say, either fight for your life or come to grips with the fac... ROBBY BENSON I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything e... CAROLINE THOMPSON I literally used to stare at my face in the mirror with hate and anger. I'd focus on those gigan... STEPHANIE BEATRIZ I'm always thinking about songs and how I can sing a song that would resonate with my voice, my ... JOHNNY MATHIS I really liked figuring things out on my own. Early on in the development of a new version of Window... CHARLES PETZOLD I was raised in a dominantly Filipino family. I didn't know I was 'mixed' until I got ol... VINCENT RODRIGUEZ III A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.... GABRIELLE UNION If it were said that I didn't fulfil my potential as a mother and wife, I'd be heartbroken. ... DIANA RIGG When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic... HARI KONDABOLU THEODORE BIKEL I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house. DANNY BONADUCE NOAH BAUMBACH JAMES PATTERSON LIL WAYNE JAMES WAN WILL FERRELL I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lun... ADRIAN PETERSON MALCOLM X MILAN KUNDERA I don't think anybody in my graduating class would have figured that I would be doing full-on si... 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So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good ... SHARON SHINN I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they... SHARON SHINN Your wedding completely changes the direction of your life, you know, no matter how greatly you desi... SHARON SHINN Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believ... SHARON SHINN And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me."SHARON SHINN GEORGE SHINN GEORGE SHINN The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or lat... FLORENCE SHINN GEORGE SHINN GEORGE SHINN GEORGE SHINN GEORGE SHINN GEORGE SHINN GEORGE SHINN GEORGE SHINN After we looked around and noticed coral was dying all over the Caribbean, not just in Florida where... GENE SHINN Yes, I think he has shown some partisanship. But basically, I think his sense of what's fair overrid... LORRAINE SHINN GEORGE SHINN All I'm trying to do is make people aware because most don't even think of this. And it does affect ... GENE SHINN We looked at the dust. That would explain how it could be all around the Caribbean, even in areas wi... GENE SHINN I've been watching this for about 40 years. The years with high dust were the same years most of the... GENE SHINN It's very unusual to see this many money orders and cashier's checks. This money has to be coming ou... LORRAINE SHINN All of a sudden, all of these cashier's checks start appearing and money orders. To me, money orders... 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SHARON SWAN SHARON SALZBERG SHARON SALZBERG SHARON WEIL SHARON WEIL SHARON CAMERON SHARON CAMERON SHARON STONE SHARON STONE The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth. SHARON LEE SHARON RIIS SHARON SALZBERG Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant str... SHARON GOLD SHARON STONE SHARON SALZBERG SHARON STONE SHARON STONE SHARON SALZBERG SHARON GLESS SHARON SALZBERG Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's th... SHARON DRAPER Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras maki... SHARON LAWRENCE ARIEL SHARON SHARON SALZBERG SHARON SALZBERG SHARON STONE SHARON SALZBERG I do research for every single book, regardless. For 'Double Dutch,' I learned to jump and l... SHARON DRAPER I worked at Sears as a salesperson when I was in college. Makes me nicer to folks to have to stand a... 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Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him. SHARON TATE SHARON SALZBERG ARIEL SHARON ARIEL SHARON ARIEL SHARON ARIEL SHARON SHARON SALZBERG ARIEL SHARON ARIEL SHARON Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit. SHARON HORGAN SHARON STONE SHARON STONE SHARON STONE SHARON STONE ARIEL SHARON SHARON SALZBERG SHARON SALZBERG She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exis... SHARON MAAS ARIEL SHARON SHARON CAMERON SHARON STONE ARIEL SHARON SHARON SALZBERG SHARON SALZBERG ARIEL SHARON ARIEL SHARON ARIEL SHARON If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks ... SHARON OLDS SHARON STONE ARIEL SHARON SHARON SALZBERG ARIEL SHARON SHARON STONE Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then whe... SHARON CREECH The older I get, the more I feel SHARON OLDS SHARON SALZBERG SHARON SALZBERG SHARON SALZBERG SHARON SALZBERG SHARON SALZBERG SHARON SALZBERG SHARON SALZBERG SHARON STONE The birth of a child is a very special time in the life of a parent. We wanted to give parents an oc... SHARON WILSON ARIEL SHARON ARIEL SHARON I try not to cut the sheep, or ruin the fleece. SHARON ALLEN ARIEL SHARON ARIEL SHARON If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the ni... SHARON OSBOURNE I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled ... SHARON CREECH SHARON STONE My interest in Women in Film came from attending the Crystal Awards in 1998 where Meryl Streep and p... SHARON LAWRENCE SHARON SALZBERG SHARON SALZBERG SHARON JONES They won't now be accused of bowing down to political pressure if they do decide to lower rates. SHARON COOMBS I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. 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I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I... 
I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels. 
I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite ... 
I'm kind of the model that everyone thought would always be the Guess, 'Sports Illustrated&#... 
I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like... 
I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagis... 
I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist, but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I t... 
Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people ... 
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how t... 
I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each othe... 
I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional... 
I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and ... 
I always give myself a three-month period where I would just hibernate and wouldn't even think a... 
If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens. 
I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my ... 
If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there was... 
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't. 
I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I ... 
I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't... 
'Miss Jackson' is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn... 
When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dr... 
While I believed deeply in my husband's vision for this country... and I was certain he would ma... 
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I starte... 
I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't... 
I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it woul... 
What kept me out of trouble is going right to the edge and then... thinking that my mother would be ... 
I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me... 
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision tha... 
Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work exte... 
If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just... 
When I turned 25, something changed in me. I see children in my future 100%. Soon. I started thinkin... 
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in h... 
Many of the crew members I work with and continue to work with were friends or have become close fri... 
I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right a... 
I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out... 
My low-budget films, more than anything, taught me that you've got to create cool, likable chara... 
I always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projec... 
I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had... 
How would I explain to him that I couldn’t make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did ... 
In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I wo... 
I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it di... 
My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked ... 
I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels. 
I don't see many explosions or ten-car crashes in the course of my life, so I don't put them... 
If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of e... 
There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others. 
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. 
When we come back and what we do is a real good question. We're looking at Oklahoma City and here in... 
Giving opens the way for receiving. 
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. Thi... 
No man is a success in business unless he loves his work. 
Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world. 
Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are abo... 
From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if w... 
Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seei... 
But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age. 
Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have thing... 
We've got 400,000 girls with beach-y blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in thei... 
Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide. 
We are supposed to write the truth, for no one to see but ourselves. But how easily that truth can b... 
If you have a vagina and an attitude in this town, then that's a lethal combination. 
Basically I am interrested in friendship, sex, and death. 
The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the indep... 
I chose not to put a wig on. The reason why I chose to come out with the cancer thing is because the... 
The United States was surprised to hear that Israel was allegedly planning to modify the (road map) ... 
The handling of the problem of the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip is a very delicate and compli... 
As for meat, I'm not going to become vegetarian. I'm telling you that right now. I want me a... 
Handsome young men should not act as if they know it. 
I'm sitting at home every time there's a Grammy. It's like, 'What is Sharon doing to... 