Word: takings
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...voice, and it's not a girl version of a man. By the way, do you ever see any man called [that]? You never see that kind of a description. You'll never see, "He's a guy version of Lisa Scottoline." I resist that as much as I take it as a compliment. The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing. (See the top 10 airplane books...
...What's a Guilt-O-Meter? I noticed that I tend to run on guilt. Around the holidays, there is so much to do. I had so much guilt, it was like a guilt traffic jam ... I said, you've just got to take this guilt and make it work for you, so sort your tasks by which you feel guiltiest about not doing and then the Guilt-O-Meter was invented...
...interrupting gets a bad rap. Why is that? This might be something that is gender related, but at this point since there are so few men in my life I don't know, I forget. My girlfriends and I interrupt each other all the time and we never take it as an insult. We're just excited. My best friend, whose name is Franca, we'll be talking at dinner sometimes at the same time. We think its great. I never think, "That's so rude." I think it would be rude if she sat there in silence while...
...truth is that the book is about that. The book is about that there are little things; you can't have everything in this life. There are lots of things that I don't have, like dates, but the truth is I really take the time and I want people to take the time to celebrate the small little things that they love, like the really perfect drink. Life is short otherwise...
...People are often surprised by the amount of physical training racers do. What's your regimen? There's a very extensive training program. [NASCAR races] are four to five hours in length. The g-forces take a lot out of you. I lift weights four times a week, usually run five days a week. There's ab work, core-based work. You need your lungs for endurance. And the more you muscle mass you have on you during an impact is real important...