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- The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it, period.
- Steven Conrad, Pursuit of Happyness, 2006
- We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?
- Betty White, Mark Twain Prize, 2010
- You suffer a lot more hiding something than if you face up to it.
- Alexander Woo, True Blood, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, 2009
- The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.
- Alexander Woo, True Blood, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, 2009
- Acting like someone you're not is exactly what it takes to realize you're capable of more than you ever knew.
- Rob Sheridan, Mad Love, The Young and The Reckless, 2011
- Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
- Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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