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| | Chris Van Allsburg |  | Lucky are the children who know there is a jolly fat man in a red suit who pilots a flying sleigh. We should envy them. And we should envy the people who are so certain Martians will land in their back yard that they keep a loaded Polaroid camera by the back door. |
| | Louis Armstrong | | The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago. |
| | Anita Baker | | At home I'm relaxed. I may be in the yard talking to neighbors, or riding my bike, or fishing, making up the bed-and things just come to me. I'll hum a melody, and if it feels real good, I'll play it on the piano and put it on tape, and then develop it later. The music speaks words to me. |
| | Truman Capote | | Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. |
| | Dave Eggers | | Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. |
| | Bill Forsyth | | When I was a very small boy, my father was a plumber in a shipping yard, but then it transpired that he became a grocer. |
| | Robert Frost | | Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. |
| | Jennifer Garner | | I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming. |
| | Bob Hayes | | I won gold medals representing this country, but I've gotten more recognition around the world than I have in my own back yard. |
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