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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and

neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
Alan Cheuse

The main point for me is that toys are incredibly more important than we realized.
Brian Sutton-Smith

I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.
Jennifer Doudna

America is a huge country, filled with great tracts of open land. If you're not careful, you can get lost in it - lost emotionally, mentally, spiritually.
Noah Hawley

Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
Orhan Pamuk

'Dance India Dance' is family to me. I actually miss the madness whenever the season is not on air.
Mithun Chakraborty

Things like the movie 'Memento' are interesting to me because our memories of the things we've done and how we've behaved form our notion of who we are, what our character is. So if part of that were missing, what does that actually say about you? And what does it say about your sense of responsibility for things if you can't remember them?
Paula Hawkins

Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.
Marvin Sapp

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.
Dwayne Johnson

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