#pond

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#always #anger #became #because #brutal

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#books #compelling #dreams #find #going

Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#just #people #play #refine #respond

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#good #good actor #i #makes #me

The border sheriffs are locally elected. They're accountable. They know the territory and the people. And they can respond the most quickly to what is a real national security emergency, because the border is unprotected. ↗

— John Culberson

#because #border #elected #emergency #know

He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press. ↗

— Henry Villard

#appeared #associated #brought #bull #campaign

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#cries #government #lobbyists #often #people

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#ever #i #keep #man #me

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#corresponding #energy #muscular #spiritual #sunlight

I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#collectors #correspondence #distributor #get #go