I believe that if I come home from a stressful day on the set, I just have to leave it there. Nia Vardalos Read Quote
Playwrights are naturally wary and protective – God, who’s more protective than a playwright? You read a play, the playwright wants to hear from you immediately. Gene Saks Read Quote
My cure for writer’s block is to step away from the thing I’m stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It’s usually not the writing itself that I’m stuck on, but thing I’m trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once. Jess Walter Read Quote
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started. Ayn Rand Read Quote
Thank God there was no yellow card in basketball because I would get a red card every game. Vlade Divac Read Quote
Because food and energy prices are volatile, it is often helpful to look at inflation excluding those two categories – known as core inflation – which is typically a better indicator of future overall inflation than recent readings of headline inflation. Janet Yellen Read Quote
When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I’ve experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of it, the compromises people come to town and are forced to make, and also, when writing about Joe McCarthy, the indecency and lies that he put forward that people didn’t take a stand about. Jake Tapper Read Quote
Here is where you get into the danger zone, when the government official starts talking about U.S. government business and then also talking about what personal business favors they might want. And when the conversation goes down that road, it does risk crossing the line into solicitation of a bribe. Richard Painter Read Quote
