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Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind.

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.

I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis.

This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. And I'm pulling it together. We've already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.

Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.'

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.

I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.

I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It's easier when you're not trying to come up with your next line on the spot.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.