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encyclopedia-britannica usual favourite
When I was about ten my favourite article in the huge and mouldering Encyclopedia Britannica we owned (the ninth edition) was the one on Lycanthropy. (Yes, I had a favourite 1890s Britannica article when I was ten. I am now aware this is not entirely usual.) Neil Gaiman
usual should happens
Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared. Wislawa Szymborska
usual mouths action
As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding on my part. When action was needed, I was absorbed in words; for words proceeded with such difficulty from my mouth that I was intent on them and forgot all about action. It seemed to me that actions, which are dazzling, varied things, must always be accompanied by equally dazzling and equally varied words. Yukio Mishima
usual wearing
Otherwise, everyone was wearing masks, gowns, gloves, and all of the usual precautions. Richard Shelley
usual speak partners
It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he? Henry Ford
usual world contribution
Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world. Liberty Hyde Bailey
usual impatient newspapers
I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers. Nellie Bly
usual six alarms
He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed. Martin Amis
usual classic window
During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual. Prince Philip
usual envious consolation
It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else. Plutarch
favourites graham raymond
In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith. Eleanor Catton
favourite giant jeff music
I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan. Christopher Masterson
favourite james judy kids kinds klein liked paula ray science
I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and Ray Bradbury, and I also liked reading about kids like myself, so I read Judy Blume and Norma Klein and Paula Danzinger and a lot of other writers. I also read James Herriot! Rebecca Stead
favourite films shot
I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.
favourite time
I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.
favourites genius mine since struck
The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog! Chris Riddell
favourite pretend time
Growing up, I idolised Madhuri Dixit. She's my favourite actress, and I used to pretend I was her all the time. Lilly Singh
favourite chaucer quotations
You know what my favourite quotation is?...It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese. Mary McCarthy
favourite milan
My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson. Paloma Faith