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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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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. Zane Grey
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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.
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Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl. Dick Bruna
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As for how far it stretches, it's too soon to tell yet. So far, what we know is that it transcends national heritage among Hispanics. Sean Ross
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The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. Jared Diamond
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Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet. John Ridley
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Barberton and Wadsworth are the two strongest teams in the league. It should be a fun battle. It should also be a battle for third place among Revere, Green and Highland.
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Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. Robert Shapiro
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Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.
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People recognize it, and history has placed it among the group of influential records. I'm gratified it stuck to the wall. Richard Lloyd
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Apple had a terrific quarter -- we sold a record number of Power Macintosh G3 computers, customers love our new PowerBooks, Apple earned its highest profit in years and we ended the quarter with the lowest inventory level among the major PC players, Steve Jobs
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The tie business went into the doldrums in the mid-1990s. Now there is definitely a dress-up trend among younger consumers.
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The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say. Jane Jacobs
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were very much trying to present themselves as reluctant warriors. They were very much reacting to demonstrations of public opinion.
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That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.
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I think we need to put it in a referendum and present it to the people,
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America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.
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They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,
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When I was younger, I didn't know television presenting was a thing, which is how I totally got my foot in the door. But I didn't really know that was a job. I never really had a TV or watched TV, and I really just wanted to be an actor. Ruby Rose
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Ten years of any show is amazing, but one about a minister? Wow. Aaron Spelling
ten weeks
Ten weeks ago, I didn't know where things were going to go, Andre Agassi
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Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it. Arthur Ashe
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I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan. Laurie Helgoe
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Politics is history in the present tense. John Avlon
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We didn't play as well as we wanted defensively and offensively. We're not doing the things we want but we'll take the win. The Big Ten is a grind-it-out conference. Dee Brown
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John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building. Clive James
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It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs Anna Kournikova
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Well, my mum's been a tennis coach - she coached me till I was 12. Andy Murray