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 What is NaNoWriMo?
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.

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JK Rowling bid for three tickets to see Stella McCartney’s Paris show at a Gala Auction in London, in June, to raise funds for the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation, and bought along two friends. “I’m working on something, but it’s not Harry Potter,” she said. “I need a Harry break.” A Stella McCartney fan, she said she loved the designer’s clothes because “they’re so wearable.”

Note: See JKR's Own Words about Stick-Skinny Models in This Rant on her Website

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"I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election,"
~ President Obama to talk-show host David Letterman, who had asked him about people who seem upset about his race.

"How long have you been a black man?"
~ Letterman's response to Pres. Obama

"I know why they wanted me in this last film, which was to create a bridge between the original cast and the new, but that’s been done. So I would suspect that there’s no need for my presence again....I’m proud of what he (Zachary Quinto) did in the film. I think it’s very good work. I think the character is in very good hands."
~ Leonard Nimoy, discussing why he won't be in the next Star Trek movie, via trekmovie.com

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Robert Burns
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
J. K. Rowling
David Hume
Adam Smith
John Muir (Environmentalist who was actually Scottish American, but born in Dunbar)

"If the Nobel Prize came from Scotland they would give it to a writer of f****** detective fiction, or else some kind of child writer, or something that was not even new when Enid Blyton was writing The Faraway Tree, because she was writing about some upper middle-class young magician or some f****** crap," he said.

Contemporary literature, he said, was "derided and sneered at by the Scottish literary establishment" who were "Anglocentric" and bent on ignoring the edgier talent that is right under their noses - citing poet Tom Leonard as an example of one such cruelly marginalised Scot.

Scottish crime writer Denise Mina, however, was far from taking Kelman's side in the row. Writing today in the Sunday Herald, she says: "Kelman is a beautiful writer and I love his books, but this debate actually drives readers toward genre fiction. It's like the prefects looking down on the juniors ... People in the arts are more concerned than anyone about status. And that's what this is: a play for status."

Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not.
People expect me to have fangs.
~ Joan Jett, Rocker

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
~ Ann Landers

Folly always knows the answer.
~ Mason Cooley

Quinn: I think people who run over animals should get run over themselves to see how they like it.
Daria: What about unpopular animals?
Quinn: Unpopular animals don’t count.
Daria: What about the stupid ones?
~ Daria TV show episode "College Bored"

The poet, the artist, the sleuth – whoever sharpens our perception tends to be anti-social; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists among anti-social types in their power to see environments as they really are.
~ Marshall McLuhan

I don't look so bad after all! That's always been my ambition... to not look so bad after all.
~ Peppermint Patty in "Peanuts"

Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.
~ Seth, in the movie "City of Angels"

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
~ Max Eastman

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
~ Publilius Syrus

Just think about it. Deeply. Then forget it. And an idea will... jump up in your face.
~ Don Draper on the TV show "Mad Men"

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
~ Paulo Coelho

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
~ Franklin P. Jones

Tony Blundetto: They used to call me Ichabod Crane.
Christopher Moltisanti: Who?
Tony Blundetto: Some very sorry people, that's who.
~ Conversation among Mafia members, "The Sopranos"

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
~ Edward R. Murrow

Every now and then we have to break the rules. Start with the conclusion and work your way backwards.
~ Gil Grissom, Head of Forensics, "CSI Las Vegas"

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
~ Blaise Pascal

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Tom Goes on to say that in films 7 and 8, we get the impression that Draco Malfoy wishes to help Harry and as such, they save each other's lives. He says we also see this in the final scene at the train station.

What if everything you knew about copyright was wrong?
Well, it isn’t. And I’m not here to tell you it is. But I do want to break you out of the spell you’ve been under since Larry Lessig became your secular god.
There really is a way to look at copyright that is not a form of apologia for dying “content” industries, like the music business and Hollywood studios. This new way also has very little to do with “free culture,” Creative Commons, and the teachings of gurus like Lessig and Michael Geist.
Where do either of those extremes leave the individual creator? The lone writer, the lone musician, the lone photographer, the lone designer? So far, the answer has been “forgotten and shunned.”