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american-novelist marriage
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder
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The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
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There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
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But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
american-novelist time
Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. Thomas Wolfe
american-novelist saves
I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting. Walter Wager
american-novelist passed practiced
I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. Richard Wright
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Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse. X. J. Kennedy
certain using
I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists. Yann Martel
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know. Imelda May
certain characters dialect prepare special
Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that. Idris Elba
certain guy interested succeeded
When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that. Gad Elmaleh
certain fiction science urban within
I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk. Gail Carriger
certain grew insecure
I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.
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Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor. Donald Trump
certain people themselves time type willing writer
Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you. Zadie Smith
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol. Xavier Becerra
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The penalty is extremely difficult. I've been doing this for 13 years and this has to be up there as one of the toughest two or three decisions I've ever had to make. I lost a lot of sleep over the weekend about this. It wasn't fun.
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But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right? Cecelia Ahern
decision trying come-up
I try to make good decisions as decisions come up. Ashton Kutcher
decision reform taxes
Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values. Bill Bradley
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That was the game. Seven or eight straight times the fouls were called on their end and one time on ours and we're going to the basket. It was very frustrating because I felt like the kids didn't get to make the decision of who won the game. Eleven free throws; we predicate ourselves about getting to the line and we get to the line 11 times.
decision felt game kids win
That was the game, right there. I felt like the kids didn't get to make the decision to win this game on their own.
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That would be nice. He just kind of made his decision to move in a different direction. That's kind of how I left it. I wish him the very best. The thing I can tell you is, he's got terrific talent. Rod Marinelli
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That was the toughest decision of my career. Jurgen Klinsmann