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In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.

Going back, I wish I could have been in the moment a little bit more. I can't change it, but hindsight definitely makes me appreciative of the moment now - even if it's hard, or exhausting, it's all a part of the experience.

Becoming a mother has made all the difference in terms of learning to take more responsibility for myself and my life. Parenthood changed the way I do everything.

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.

The end of 'City Lights' makes me cry every time I see it - when Charlie Chaplin walks by the shop window and the once-blind girl brings him a flower and pins it to his lapel.

I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.

the art of letting you go hasn’t been a graceful one.

The diagnosis was immediate: Masses matting the lungs and deforming the spine. Cancer. In my neurosurgical training, I had reviewed hundreds of scans for fellow doctors to see if surgery offered any hope. I'd scribble in the chart 'Widely metastatic disease - no role for surgery,' and move on. But this scan was different: It was my own.

It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence, and stubbornness to be an openly committed Christian - or openly committed to any of the great religious traditions - as an undergraduate in selective colleges or in the honors programs of large universities.

Puso cara de cachorrillo abandonado y de forma instintiva me dieron ganas de abrazarle. Resistirme a él era cada vez más difícil. Leo emanaba la clase de magnetismo que es imposible ignorar. Ese que gira cabezas a su paso y atrae miradas allí por donde pasa. Y yo, desde luego, no era inmune a él.

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

What makes you a star is not how you shine on your own, but how you shine on people’s lives. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor.

I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity; it's not very ladylike.

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

The deal we made was that if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota - that's what they wanted, the invitation - if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota, he would guarantee South Dakota 400 Citibank jobs.

Parties are continually changing. The men of today give place to the men of tomorrow, and the idols which one set worship, the next destroy.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.