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Alice Walker

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
 

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Alice Walker

Interview: Brooke Gladstone, author of The Influencing Machine

May 23, 2011

As host of NPR’s On the Media, reporter and writer Brooke Gladstone has some unique and interesting opinions about the role of media in our lives and how it affects us. But also, as she points out in her new book, The Influencing Machine, we have a huge say in how we affect it: That is, the media is a mirror reflecting society for better or for worse. More challenging ideas abound in this fun, insightful book, and we’re happy to give Brooke the forum in which to discuss it. Here’s her take on all things media. 

Paula Poundstone

Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.
 

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Paula Poundstone

Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
 

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Robert Frost
May 20, 2011

Holly Goldberg Sloan: Writing Novels vs. Writing Screenplays

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Johnny Depp

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
 

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Johnny Depp

May 20, 2011

I am writing today on the train to Washington, DC, where I am speaking tomorrow at the Compleat Biographer Conference. Taking the train meant I am toting one very small carry-on bag with me; I am in luggage withdrawal! Tonight I am going to a fundraiser at Kitty Kelly’s house, which seriously sounds cool, gossipy (I mean that in the BEST sense of the word) and fun. Now there is something wonderful for me about this conference that has a back story.

 
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May 20, 2011

Let's start by looking beyond the website because looking at the calendar we have number of events coming up, and I hope you can take part in some (or all) of them!

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May 19, 2011

Now the whole family can enjoy Enzo!

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"The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash."

Dave Barry

All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears --- of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required."
 

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Dave Barry