At the core of all human behavior, the good feelings we all want are more or less the same. Therefore, what we get out of life is not determined by the good feelings we desire but by what bad feelings we’re willing to sustain. Mark Manson Read Quote
I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier. Kelley Armstrong Read Quote
CBC has a very important mandate to bind Canada together in both official languages, tell local stories, and make sure we have a sense of our strength, our culture, our stories. Justin Trudeau Read Quote
If you write a story based on a real person, you’re trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story. Caroline B. Cooney Read Quote
Once, I was doing Bon Qui Qui in Miami, and this black girl was in the audience, and she yelled out, ‘That’s not funny!’ which was really funny because she sounded exactly like the character I was playing. Anjelah Johnson Read Quote
In some ways, Mr. Modi’s foreign policy is a continuation of Dr. Manmohan Singh’s, and in some ways, it could be that Mr. Modi was repossessing all the non Nehru-Gandhi leaders of the Congress. Sanjaya Baru Read Quote
For a lot of comics who aren’t as silly or physical but more intellectual, we get looked at as ‘alt comics.’ No, I’m still a black comic, and there are black people who want to hear my type of black comedy, but that space hasn’t been built out for us. Amanda Seales Read Quote
We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of. Gerhard Schroder Read Quote