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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 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 countless wrote
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
american-author boy
Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl. Dick Bruna
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Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide. Sara Paretsky
effective expected less product reaction safe strong
The more effective it is, the less safe it is, and with a strong product the reaction will be expected to be more, Wendy Wong
effective government spending
This is some of the most effective spending the government does.
effective jump pressure stuff threw
That's what we wanted to do, we wanted to go out and jump on them. I thought our pressure was pretty effective tonight. We threw a lot of stuff at them and I don't think they ever got in any kind of rhythm.
effective region turns
That turns out to be an effective way to make the region more competitive vis-a-vis China.
effective hours
You would have to evacuate at about 72 hours from landfall to have an effective evacuation.
effective folks gotten great planning rebuilding recovery self starting swift taking
You've really gotten off to a great start. There's a lot of self-sufficiency on the part of the folks over there who are, on their own initiative, taking up and starting the planning process, getting on with the rebuilding period. I think you're going to have a pretty swift and effective recovery over there in Texas.
effective money partner problem work
Money laundering is a problem for the whole world, ... We're here to work with you to be as effective a partner as we can. Janet Reno
effective humorous women worry
If worry were an effective weight-loss program, women would be invisible.
effectiveness challenges atheism
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing. George Orwell
human low naturally nature took
As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view. John Galsworthy
human property replaced
Property can be replaced ! Human life, never. Tom Mann
human poems send
Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings. Edward Hirsch
humanity made
Humanity is always made up of more dead than living. Auguste Comte
humanity theatre crafts
Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise. Arthur Miller
human
I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings. Jim Fowler
humanity shaving refrain
One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans. Coco Chanel
humanity culture
A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ. Brian Eno
human-nature social institutions
Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it. Edward Abbey
race roots racism
The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority. Ayn Rand
race competition
I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race. Cameron Diaz
race law people
There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law. Calvin Coolidge
race realizing humans
We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race. Dan Aykroyd
race
We must go fast, because the race is against time. Anna Held
race long world
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. Booker T. Washington
race racetrack release
The racetrack said, 'You get a release from the judge, we'll let you race,' Rusty Wallace
race humans knows
The only race I know is the human one. Albert Einstein
race disrespect taught
Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other. Anna Deavere Smith
weapons intention regimes
It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems. Stephen Harper
weapons pens songwriters
My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter. Sly Stone
weapons
I take his weapons away from him. Both of them. Frank Miller
weapons ships want
Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them. Helmut Schmidt
weapons unpredictable federal-reserve
Of all the weapons in the Federal Reserve arsenal, words were the the most unpredictable in their consequences. John Kenneth Galbraith
weapons evolution habit
The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons. Julio Cortazar
weapons intellect humans
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. John Jay Chapman
weapons source written-word
There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word. Malala Yousafzai
weapons violence gone
If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone. Mahatma Gandhi