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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
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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
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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
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Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished. John Gray
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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
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What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau
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The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate. John Sladek
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The prizes have some credibility, of course. And they do good work for the writer and for the publisher, by winnowing one book out of the pack. Russell Banks
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over. Harold Brodkey
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Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough. Chris Phillips
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Steroids are not really needed, ... You can get nearly the same results through training.
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Services now represent nearly 50 percent of IBM's revenue.
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When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance. Geoffrey Zakarian
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Some were told that the reason they had to stand in a particular spot was to make sure that construction workers passing by the trailer would not be able to see them. Gloria Allred
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You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed. Betty Cuthbert
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But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.
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Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most. Ronda Rousey
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We have a cooperative victim in this particular proceeding.
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We say use a program that is appropriate for the particular situation. James Allen
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There's one particular woman who does a lot of cooking.
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We've been working on this particular program since November.
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That was a part of the reason. There was one situation in particular that Kent picked up on. For competitive reasons, I'm not going to say what it was.