Stanway Rovers Quotes & Sayings

I made a living being a background singer for years. — Katey Sagal

Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of business. They know so little that is real. — Lorrie Moore

I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me. — Susan Powter

Still, my fascination with Buchanan did not abate, nor was I able, as the Seventies set in, to move the novel forward through the constant pastiche and basic fakery of any fiction not fed by the springs of memory
what Henry James calls (in a letter to Sarah Orne Jewett) the "fatal cheapness [and] mere escamotage" of the "'historic' novel. — John Updike

From experience, we gain a powerful gift, the ability to act instinctively, in the moment. — Malcolm Gladwell

I'll share my life with you. But, not my doughnuts. — Crystal Woods

I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication. — Justine Larbalestier

Be yourself' is good advice, unless you notice that people are always excusing themselves and moving away from you. In that case, try being someone else! — Susan RoAne

Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn't predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did. — Cordelia Fine

Expressing intense feelings usually portends better results than emotional detachment does. — Mark Murphy

Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control. — Christopher Bollen

I remember when I saw Peter Pan when I was little. After all the other kids wanted to reenact the battles of the lost boys, pirates, and Indians, and all I could think about was the part where Peter Pan sits still while Wendy takes a sharp needle and, with concern and maybe love, sews his shadow onto his feet. And I wonder if the pain excited him as much as it excited me to watch. I hang here, the voices still bleeding in my ears. I watch my shadow, solid like a murdered body's outline, and I pray. Maybe one more slice, just one more, will sever it forever. — J.T. LeRoy

I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary. — Jean-Paul Sartre