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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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The prizes have some credibility, of course. And they do good work for the writer and for the publisher, by winnowing one book out of the pack. Russell Banks
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over. Harold Brodkey
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As far as I know I'm doing a book with him on the Jackson trial.
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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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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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Any win is important nowadays. Obviously, Philly has been playing well and their score was posted on the scoreboard before we started. They lost and we knew we had a golden opportunity to gain a game. We went out and did it. So it's two more off the magic number, whatever it is. It's probably 100. But nonetheless, it's another day in the books and we gained a game. Chipper Jones
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Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books. Mary Randolph
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As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.
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As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you. Kurt Thomas
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Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000. Jared Bernstein
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Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.
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Normally, we're a very good free-throw shooting team. But tonight, we weren't.
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Normally we're a good 3-point shooting team but we weren't hitting anything today, so they just plugged up the middle and took Chad's shots away. We panicked a little in the third quarter but the kids held together. Bruce's kids are so disciplined, and they really know how to protect their floor.
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After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever. Levi Leipheimer
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Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up! John Rhys-Davies
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The more Indiana ties you can get, the better. You've got to recruit Indiana and there's enough good young kids in the state that you've got to recruit it hard.
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I've matured. I think I work better with the team.
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.
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.
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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
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The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods.
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There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do. Charles Kettering
writers
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. John Dos Passos
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The more you live, the better writer you are. Meg Rosoff
writers
There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium. Brian K. Vaughan
writers
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. Charlaine Harris
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Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre. Sara Sheridan
writer
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour. John Irving