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american-author good graceful pleased writers-and-writing
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway. Jack Vance
american-author films services sort stick
Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me. Kevin Williamson
american-author certainly changed exterior growing safe
The exterior circumstances have certainly changed for many children. The world is not the safe place it was when I was growing up. Beverly Cleary
american-author empowered men women
Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished. John Gray
american-author creating ethanol five four gasoline might percent within
Within four or five years the US might be getting 10 percent of its gasoline from ethanol - that would be like creating a new Indonesia. Daniel Yergin
american-author fine house planet tolerable
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau
american-author best life love man woman
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. Zane Grey
american-author follow sentences stick words
So I try to stick with the structure, make the sentences work, and not to follow one sentence of 114 words with another of the same length. Robert Sheckley
american-author devoted family knowledge members odd women
So I didn't think it was odd for women to have technological knowledge and yet be mothers, and very devoted family members and have friends. Elizabeth Moon
good remembers
As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that. Chairon Isenia
good knocking knows open pick
As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you. Kurt Thomas
good jobs month
Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000. Jared Bernstein
good happen job shot turn
Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us. Tim Parmeter
good shooting
Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't. Don Kloth
good held hitting kids middle normally panicked protect quarter shooting shots team third took
Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor. Dean Wagenaar
good mountain people realized stages
After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever. Levi Leipheimer
good great hold open
Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle. Chris Riddell
good separation
Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character. Fran Dunphy
happy
No, she was happy for us. She was really excited. Kelsey Grabiak
happy jump moving work
We're happy with the jump we had. We've got work to do, but we're moving in the right direction. Robby Davis
happy hope
We're happy to see them. We hope they're here for a long time. Gary Cole
happy
We're happy to be here (at least) one more night. Rene Portland
happy plan super win
We're happy to be going to the Super Bowl, but we want to win. We plan to go there and win the whole thing. Hines Ward
happy wish
We're happy to be able to help, and we wish them the best. Jud Honaker
happy since sponsor willing
We're happy they're willing to sponsor us since we couldn't get sponsorship here. Randy Nelson
happy rewards virtue
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. Baruch Spinoza
happy reasons
There are a lot of reasons why (Wall Street) just isn't happy about this restructuring. James Kelleher
stop
There's no secrets. We have to stop them. We can't let them get on a streak. Tara Kelly
stop task tomorrow
My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling. Lonnie Bunch
stop
That was what we set out to do, stop Grier. Dee Brown
stop
It doesn't stop her for a minute. She's very adaptable. Maudie Samiee
stop
We were never going to stop even if they told us to. Brian Jones
stop supply
We have to try to stop the supply to Thierry Henry, get about them and have a go ourselves. Ray Parlour
stopping
He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there, Mike Gatting
stop
I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head. Joseph Druce
stop win
If you want to win at the Coliseum, you've got to stop penetration, penetrate yourself and play half-court defense. Randy Kortokrax
trying speak live-by
I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on. Brandon Marshall
trying keep-trying bastille
Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you. Brandon Sanderson
trying why-not mindset
I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally? Brad Paisley
trying needs venture-capitalists
While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do. Brad Feld
trying borders hopeless
It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Jane Jacobs
trying attention want
Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on. Jane Hirshfield
trying worried projects
I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before. Cameron Diaz
trying knows can-do
You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to. C. S. Lewis
trying students form
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed. Alan Dundes