#pi

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #been #direct #doing #even

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from. ↗

— Joan Didion

#pick #places #walk #you

Being happy is very important. We won our second championship last season and we have our entire team coming back to try and defend our title again. I'm very proud of that. ↗

— Larry Dixon

#back #being #being happy #championship #coming

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#failed #first #freeze #i #i always

It would be Spiderman. I'd love to be Peter Parker. ↗

— Casper Van Dien

#love #parker #peter #spiderman #would

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. ↗

— Jane Austen

#happy

Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#cast #come #even #face #first

In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#case #element #every #fact #i

I'd far rather be happy than right any day. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#rightness #happy

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#had #hard #i #kind #made