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I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my firs

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject – skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge. – Amy Waldman

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So the premise of The Submission is that theres an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and its won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan. – Amy Waldman

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design
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Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers. – Amy Waldman

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Well, I think that as a country, weve drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination. – Terry Brooks

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The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and its a big problem. – Alex Cox

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Ive never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination. – Garry Trudeau

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Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained. – Nicolas Manetta

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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing. – John Lancaster Spalding

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Behold they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. Genesis 11:6 – Bible

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Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way. – David Hasselhoff

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At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation. – Howard Aiken

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