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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 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. Jack Vance
american-author boy
Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl. Dick Bruna
breaking fact goes habit means player plays problem required start system time understand undoing
Any time a player goes from one system to another, one thing that could be a problem is breaking old habits. It's not that you don't understand what the new responsibilities or plays are, but just the fact that you've been doing something a long time - it's a habit - and that's not what's required in the other system. And that means kind of undoing something before you can even start to do something new. Bill Belichick
breaking far guns justified men pockets returning
As far as we can tell at this point, those men had a right to be at that corner, they weren't breaking any laws. They had a right to have guns in their pockets and they may have been justified in returning fire. Jim Leljedal
breakfast clause complete consider fails far legitimate looks perfectly
As far as I can see, this looks a complete dog's breakfast of a clause as it fails to consider that many so-called 'hacker tools' have perfectly legitimate uses. Dave Lambert
breaking chain invisible man perhaps
A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible. Merab Mamardashvili
breakfast eat likely people twice
People who don't eat breakfast are twice as likely to be obese. Jessica Leonard
breaking broad broadband challenge community company consumers investing itself lend local operating shop tv
Operating in one community doesn't lend itself to a big TV buy. You get a broad reach, but it's cluttered. The challenge is breaking through...intercepting consumers where they shop or are entertained communicates that we are a local company investing to give them more TV and broadband choice. Chris McKay
break hole size
The size of this year's ozone hole is approaching an all-time high, but it will probably not break any records. Geir Braathen
break designed handle system
The system didn't break down. The system just wasn't designed to handle something so catastrophic. Terry Ebbert
break color conference pressure ready took
The Southwest Conference and UT were not ready to break the color barrier. The Orioles took the pressure off Texas. Don Baylor
email brutal crap
You can't fill your emails with crap, at least not with my friends, because they're brutal. If something sucks, they'll tell you. Tucker Max
emails expensive gotten item items online order people purchased shipping truly website
I've gotten emails from people who purchased items from an infomercial, only to find out that the shipping was more expensive than the item itself. The lesson: If you truly want to order something you see on TV, go online to the product's website and see if you can find out more information. Jean Chatzky
email bother memos
Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me. Judith Martin
email dry
Hillary has now erased all of her emails, and she also had all of her pantsuits dry cleaned. David Letterman
five
Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated. Linette Johnson
five games miss somewhere
I used to go to more games than I do now. Every game you see in person you probably miss somewhere between five and 10 games. Mike Slive
five great plays seen talent team
I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend. Ichiro Suzuki
five good lifting preach sort
I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation. Caroline Paul
five giving owed
I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one. Matt Sylvester
five realize worry
I used to worry about every little footnote, ... Now I realize you just need five votes. William Rehnquist
five night
I've never had a 10, but one night I had five twos George Carlin
five question repeat types
That's kids, and sometimes they don't know what to ask, so they repeat a question five times. Really, those are the types of things that makes it fun. Carlos Silva
five last stayed
You would have stayed out of them the last five years, Stephen Barnes
fourth internet quarter stuff tech worked year
The stuff that worked in the fourth quarter and the first part of this year isn't working any more, like Internet stocks, large-cap tech stocks, and other large-cap names. Hugh Johnson
fourth knock looks simple third understood vote
I've never understood how two-thirds of the thing can vote for you one way and one third can knock you into fourth place. It looks like it should be third, third, third, but that's my simple math. Pete Carroll
four game lose manager managing players playoff respect team thrown
I've only been thrown out four times in my career, not my managing career. If I get tossed from the game, I think I let the team down. If a manager is not there in a playoff game I think you lose the respect of your team. I need my players and my players need me. Ozzie Guillen
fourth nice second shoot
The second and fourth quarter, we didn't shoot all that well. Defensively, we did a real nice job. Dan Spellman
four happened leader needs team today
I've been here four years now, ... and I know this offense. I know what needs to be done. We'll still be a contender. I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. I was a leader on this team before this happened and I'm going to be a leader now. Doug Johnson
fourth last quarter
This is not at all like fourth quarter of last year. Mike Falbo
four fraction internet months represents three tiny works
This is something that's been in the works for three or four months and frankly, it only represents a tiny fraction of Internet users. Mark Murray
four half players points
All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20. Terri Mitchell
four hours theater
You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really. Brett Ratner
middle
As a kid, that was my dream. I always said that's where I want to be, in the middle of the madness. As long as things go as expected, I think we'll be in the middle of it. Matt Braeuer
middle replaced technology
Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class. James Altucher
middle sort stage terribly
I've been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on stage but also really appreciating it in a way that you can't when you're in the middle of it. Carrie Coon
middle outside ran
We ran our middle a little more, we ran our outside a little more and we need to do that. We need to show a little diversity. Saundra Hess
middle third time touched
From the middle of the third quarter, they scored every time they touched the ball. Todd Watkins
midst proved telling time trying words
I was telling the truth, I said I was very, very worried. At that time I was in the midst of trying to get a way whereby this would not happen. And it has happened. My words have been proved to be right. Ian Paisley
middle night thinking unsure
I, for one, have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it, being unsure how to vote. Charles Schumer
middlemarch ifs seems
The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change. George Eliot
middle racetrack swung
He swung her out and she just motored down the middle of the racetrack without much effort, ... It was kind of spine-tingling to watch. Jeff Mullins
post versatile
She is a versatile player, and she can do a lot of different things. She can post up as a guard, and she can shoot, too. Michael Perkins
posture
It's an undeclared posture of 'regime change' on the cheap. Flynt Leverett
post solve
I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
runs scoring situation stops until wall
A situation like that, you just don't think about anything ... you just go get it. They were scoring runs ... we wanted to get out of that inning any way you can. You just go until the wall stops you. Joey Gathright
runs
Offensively, we didn't do too much. But we scored the runs when we had to. Ron Gardenhire
run school studies
I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch. Randeep Hooda
running princess army
Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal. Brandon Sanderson
running cutting ideas
The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved. Arthur Lydiard
running years effort
I discovered years ago that the best results in this respect could be gained by running 100 miles weekly at my near best aerobic efforts and that, supplementary to this, running as many easy miles as I could Arthur Lydiard
running motivation exercise
You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation. Arthur Lydiard
running men legs
They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with women is if there's anything wrong with them, they won't tell you. They'll get out there and run on one leg. They don't moan and groan like a lot of men do. Arthur Lydiard
running athlete winning
Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win. Arthur Lydiard
short-love priorities film
There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments. David Lynch
short-love pain believe
I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice. Andre Dubus
shortcuts ifs
If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can. Larry Wall
short-life joy important
I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life. Eknath Easwaran
short-life moving-forward reflection
Life can only be understood backwards. Mackenzie Astin
short
We are short on the street, but they're in the pipeline. Tim Bedwell
until
You have to give them you until you is what they want. F. Stone
until
Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact. Brian Leonard
until
I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full. J. Horton
until
It'll be interesting to see what the mind-set is of this group. I think it's going to be good, but we won't know until we take the field. Keith Kramme
until
It was pretty much nip and tuck until the end. Jimmy Fletcher
until
It's going to keep going until I retire, so I think it's something that will always be there. When it changes, it changes. If it doesn't, it doesn't. As long as I'm productive, I don't think it should matter. Omar Jacobs
until
It started twelve and went on until twelve. I never had to buy a drink all day! Michael Owen Bruce
until
Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico. Ellen Roberts
until
Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part. Dean Laidley
work
I've matured. I think I work better with the team. Kristin Baker
worked
I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features. James Marsh
work
I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct. Amanda Hale
work
This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on. Luis Castillo
worked
That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork. Bryson Sumlin
work-out should harder
The harder you work out, the more you should stretch. Jane Fonda
work writers
Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work. Kent McCord
work
You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard. LaMarr Woodley
work
I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing. Kathryn Harrison