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Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears. ”
Having a child is a big life change, but the really hectic period is relatively short. You can get through it. ”
Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and storytellers have wanted an audience. That is still the case. The changes are really a matter of format. ”
I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change. ”
I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life. ”
I first drew the attention of my future husband when we were fourteen, on the freshman school bus for an epic field trip from Riverside, Calif. to Los Angeles, where we were taken to the L.A. Zoo as well as the Natural History Museum. ”
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. ”
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. ”
Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility. ”
Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world. ”