- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Shine
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- Nov 07, 2020
For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it's not the author's fault. It's yours.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.
- Dine
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.'
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.
- Daily Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am bowled over by the massive number of remarkable people who face down the fact that no, they are not going to be film directors, famous artists, or billionaire entrepreneurs and still come out the other side as cheerful, decent, gracious human beings.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Weight having become politicised, anyone with a profile in the media who either subscribes to or departs from the template of tininess implicitly represents a constituency, whether they want to or not.
- Heavier
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ironically, heavier comedians, actors, and the characters they play are actually more sympathetic, and easier for audiences to identify with, than the svelte.
- Opportunities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Feminine Mystique' goads me to gratitude that, thanks to forerunners like Betty Friedan, I've had the opportunity to pursue a career.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her - looks, talent, opportunity, with her 'whole life ahead of her,' yadda, yadda, yadda - yet was spiraling into misery.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In economics, 'competitiveness' does not describe Barack Obama's insistence on not only being president of the U.S. but also beating his staff at bowling.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020