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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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The mutual fund industry has been very successful at promoting itself in this glamorous way. Mutual funds are actually vast, impersonal bureaucratic structures, and yet they were clever enough to give a human face to the mutual funds. Ron Chernow
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The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature. Kenneth Anger
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A few years ago, I had an exhibition at a museum in Holland where, for the very first time, I saw how much Miffy had changed over the years. Dick Bruna
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After leaving college and while working on a newspaper and then on a magazine in New York, I wanted not to lose what Greek I had acquired. Robert Fitzgerald
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So, The Quiet Invasion is about the attempt to coexist peacefully with people who have radically different ideas and backgrounds than your own. Sarah Zettel
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Now, I'll say this. I've never taking a course on writing. I've never read a book on writing. This isn't something that would work for me. Nora Roberts
american-author authority noticed seriously takes voice watergate
So much of broadcasting hasn't really noticed that Watergate happened, that no one takes the voice of authority seriously anymore. Sarah Vowell
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Sometimes when someone is asking you a question you can become Socratic, and ask them a question, and have them answer their own question for them. Vincent Bugliosi
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As far as I know I'm doing a book with him on the Jackson trial. Larry Garrison
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As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it. Demian Bichir
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A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.
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People call each other when they see new books on the shelves. New books are usually checked out in two days, DVDs in (only) hours.
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Oh, hi Kobe. Yes, well, about the book ... Kobe Bryant
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No relevant data which support hypotheses, laws, models and theories could be found in the papers and books by proponents of intelligent design, only unsubstantiated assumptions. Therefore, it can justifiably be viewed as pseudoscience.
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No scientist will sit on (a ship) for that long, reading a book and eating popcorn for the whole time, no way. Robert Ballard
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Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule. Richard Curtis
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Then at high school I got an electric guitar and a book with some photos of Eddie Van Halen in it and my grades went downhill.
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Other courses there's a lot of rest, you can work hard and rest, work hard and rest. And if you don't have as good a physiology, you can get away with the techniques of speed and power. But this kind of course, the guys who are genetically gifted ...
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A plane is not just a big toy but a useful thing. You can use it for travel, research and of course fun, like sightseeing. Charles Curtis
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The thing that I've learned through the course of this week is that it means a lot to a lot of people. Matt Hasselbeck
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Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different. John McCarthy
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I've played well here. But this golf course didn't really handle the weather too well, and this time of year, you get rain. We've been lucky to finish this tournament on time. Tiger Woods
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The stories are what they are in my head. They take their own course and refuse to be influenced by anything or anybody. So I just record what I see and hope that people like it.
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They all know that they have to play better. Most of it is course management and short game. We have really been trying to concentrate on that the whole year. Jim Brown
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The work that has been reported there is extremely important, so we are of course troubled by the allegations that have been made and are hopeful that they are not true.
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This is one of the top-five golf courses on the PGA Tour already after just one practice round,
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We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,
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Take the high road; it's far less crowded. Warren Buffett
taking
I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.
taking
The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position. Nancy Grace
taking-charge
Never stand and take a charge... charge them too. Nathan Bedford Forrest
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I've matured. I think I work better with the team.
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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.
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
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That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.
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I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it. Boris Yeltsin
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Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest. Auguste Rodin
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The harder you work out, the more you should stretch. Jane Fonda
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Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work. Kent McCord