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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
hours staff test training work
During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now. Liu Peng
hours lots question work
I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
hours hurricane less notice
This was the only hurricane where we had less than 24 hours notice it was going to hit,
hours minutes wells
Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy. Douglas Adams
hour
We are in the first hour of a very long development cycle.
hours civilized new-yorkers
I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it. Sonia Sotomayor
hours throwing company
I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head. Tana French
hours-in-the-day relax different
I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to. Tom Cruise
hours stills
But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. Michael Cunningham
million
You're representing 400 million (300 million, actually) Americans. That's a pretty big responsibility. Alex Rodriguez
million people
You're going to have a million people in this corridor.
million people potential sales
There are more than 300 million people in the US, so we still have a lot of potential sales out there.
million people street until
They say 15 million people are watching the show, but what does that mean, you know? It's not until I'm accosted on the street that I understand! America Ferrera
million people watching
We've got 25 million people in Venezuela. At least 24 million are going to be watching the games. Magglio Ordonez
million pictures
could see these pictures go to $100 million or more worldwide.
million ought ways
There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
million spend
We will spend well over $2 million on this facility.
million offer people
If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.
moving people long
As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound. Ben Mendelsohn
moving winning mountain
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height. Barbara Kingsolver
moving grief thinking
Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.
moving emotional mind
Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted. Ayn Rand
moving giving earth
Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!
moving waiting battle
There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose, Ain't about how fast I get there, Ain't about what's waiting on the other side, It's the climb Miley Cyrus
moving neighborhood inflation
Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving. Alan Cranston
moving-on running home
The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest. Al Franken
moving lines bob
In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket. James Wolcott
sixth socrates stature
Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.
sixty-minutes lasts remember
Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292) Michael Robotham
six moles scar
I have seven scars from having moles removed. One was a melanoma, six were precancerous. Get your moles checked! Jennifer Morrison
six stick
My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there's a video of it, too. I'm just, like, stick straight. I'm not moving at all, and I'm just singing. Tori Kelly
six throw worry
I said, don't worry about it. He's only going to throw about 50 pitches. That's about six innings, and then he'll be done. Ned Yost
six
That's the most assists we've had in six games. Tim Healy
six teams
I think if you take a look at any of the six teams, any of those six teams could go all the way. Mike Shanahan
six ass inches
A pat on the back is six inches away from a kick up the ass. Geri Halliwell
six week really-great
When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks. Hank Azaria