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"We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate."
"Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide."
"Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door."
"The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution."
"If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power."
"Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood."
"The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being"
"I don't believe that there's anyone in the world without a competitive bone in their body."
"Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end."
"I was a short order cook in a pool hall in college. So I am the fastest cook in the world."
"In the world of imagination, all things belong."
"What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold."
"You know, like, none of us would choose - no matter where we are in the world - would choose to you know become a member of Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" world, but how much choice is really the question."
"The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things"
"The art world is a bit smaller than the music world, and the music world is a bit smaller than the cinema world. But the art world is pretty tight even though the biggest thing that's happened to it is the auctions, which are the only reason people on the outside know anything about it."
"The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was."
"All of us want the same things. We want to be good to the people around us and for our lives to have meaning. For me that means making the world a little bit easier for women."
"When I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female."
"I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction in the world and turn that distraction into observations and then into poems."
"The crows live in the world like you do. They are part of nature."
