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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 follow sentences stick words
So I try to stick with the structure, make the sentences work, and not to follow one sentence of 114 words with another of the same length. Robert Sheckley
american-author devoted family knowledge members odd women
So I didn't think it was odd for women to have technological knowledge and yet be mothers, and very devoted family members and have friends. Elizabeth Moon
attention economic environment eye funds grind market money pay short stays
As long as this economic environment stays intact, the market can grind its way North. You pay a lot of attention to valuation and you have to keep your eye on the long term. If you have funds that you need in the short term, I think you probably need to take some money off the table. E. B. White
attention help paying sure takes whatever
Actually, I'm not sure we're paying attention to that. I'm just paying attention to doing whatever it takes to help this team. Erik Cole
attention customer employees enhance ensuring experience goals include keeping operation personal practices primary productive safe safety service system workers
Safe workers are productive workers, better ensuring system reliability. Safety practices include not only attention to the personal safety of employees, but attention to the safe operation of the system. One of our primary goals is customer service excellence. Keeping employees safe and keeping our system safe enhance the service experience for our customers. Jerry Morris
attention confidence game good hitting last mistakes pay shots
We're hitting shots and we're getting our confidence back. We just have to be able to pay attention to the little details. The last game and a half, that's what we've been doing minimizing our mistakes and making good shot selections. Tom Halbmaier
attention buy car career certain either films frivolity house knew money pick taking
I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was either to buy a house or to buy a car. There was a certain frivolity to the way I used to pick up things. I wasn't taking my career seriously. Emraan Hashmi
attention damaging hope iranian sanctions
We very much hope that these sanctions will not be implemented bluntly in a way that would be damaging to the Iranian people, but it is going to be sanctions that will get the attention of the Iranian government. Nicholas Burns
attention stuff looks
I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know. Al Yankovic
attention bring fuel government happy people system tax
We want to bring to the attention of the government that the people are not very happy with the tax system on fuel in this country. Alan Greene
attention year
There is a sense this year that anything is possible, that they have the rapt attention of the leadership. Michael Franc
books books-and-reading call checked dvds people
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. Sharon Chang
books books-and-reading data found models papers relevant support theories viewed
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. Mark Perakh
books exception major number publishers sold taken track turn unless
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
books gain gained golden knew lost magic opportunity philly playing posted score scoreboard whatever win
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
books-and-reading october september
Sometimes it was September or October before we would get the books. Mary Randolph
books both map offered orleans resilience stand testament
These books now stand both as a testament to the resilience of the residents of New Orleans ... and as a map back from disaster, offered by the city's teenagers. Richard Nash
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The way Sunny speaks in the books seems a perfect fit for the cause in question. She often uses words that can't be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, which then are explained as sly commentary on what's going on around her, Daniel Handler
books-and-reading enforced good laws
There are very good laws on the books. What's important is that those laws are enforced aggressively. Al Hubbard
books country good income minute published sixty thousand
There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap. Michael Lewis
helping job lose messing supposed team
As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and I'm going out and helping this team in any way, I'm going to be here, ... The only way I'm going to lose my job is if I'm messing up and not getting the job done. Dennis Northcutt
helping prepared problem solution
The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire, Javier Solana
help involved learn rest students
The students get help they need, and we learn about the rest of the world by being involved with them. Peter Briggs
helpless relatively suggesting
So we are suggesting this was a relatively helpless little hatchling. Robert Reisz
helped points school smallest teams ten wrestlers
Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there. Kirby Moses
help pressure rest ryan stepped takes
Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot. Danielle Jackson
helping knew
It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us. Daniel Burns
helped jewel light monologue separate shining taking thread
It was about taking the show and shining a different light on it. Each monologue was like a separate jewel that I helped thread into a necklace. Cheech Marin
helping highs last market numbers peak political problems pull reached somewhat stock summer
The stock numbers and political problems around the world aren't helping pull this market back at all. We've reached last year's peak summer highs and it's only April. That's somewhat scary. Mike Sanders
mystery existence
The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself. Deepak Chopra
mystery seek support timing
The timing is a mystery to us. We did not seek this rule. We're not objecting to it, but we didn't support it, either. Richard Lobb
mystery born let-me
Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries . . . Anne Spencer
mystery appeals
Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody. Angela Lansbury
mystery adaptation fidelity
The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity. David Hare
mystery wonder ifs
We wake, if ever at all, to mystery. Annie Dillard
mystery ghost crime
I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. Stephen King
mystery moments intense
When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it is work every moment and rest every moment. Swami Vivekananda
mystery enigma persons
Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle. Theodore Zeldin
seventeen
Really? I don't remember. Seventeen under? That's pretty good. David Ishii
seven
We were in there for seven months. We wanted to see it through to the end. Richelle Nice
seven-days seven ifs
If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else. S. Truett Cathy
seven
I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards. Shaun White
seven-months weight six
The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead. Michael Ian Black
seventies sufferers five
Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women Teri Garr
seven-years half pay
Instead, the Nationals will pay Scherzer $15 million per season, but do so for 14 years; essentially, they’ve deferred half of each season’s salary seven years into the future. Max Scherzer
seven
Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it. Tom Taulli
seven shots
Seven shots around here is not much at all, O. Singh
stayed
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin. Lillian Carter
stayed
I've stayed in Hiltons before, but I'd have to say that this was one of the best. They did everything for us. James Long
staying work
I've been staying in it mentally. And they'll work me in as they see fit. Nate Jackson
stay trying
I've been through a storm, and I ain't trying to get in another one. So I just try to stay to myself. Calvin Williams
stay takes
Things are going well, but it just takes time. It's all going well, so I just have to stay patient. Lindsey Hunter
stay turned
You've got to stay patient, stay in the moment, keep grinding, ... You never know what can happen. And it turned out well. Tiger Woods
stay-strong peace giving-up
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. Jane Addams
stay-strong life-lesson color
And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet. Shel Silverstein
stay-strong love-you simple
It's a simple law of attraction that you get back what you put out into the universe. The more love you give, the more love you attract. The more love you attract, the more love you receive. WHen we put good energy into the world, we feel good. We make those around us feel good. Demi Lovato
trying speak live-by
I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on. Brandon Marshall
trying keep-trying bastille
Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you. Brandon Sanderson
trying why-not mindset
I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally? Brad Paisley
trying needs venture-capitalists
While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do. Brad Feld
trying borders hopeless
It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Jane Jacobs
trying attention want
Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on. Jane Hirshfield
trying worried projects
I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before. Cameron Diaz
trying knows can-do
You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to. C. S. Lewis
trying students form
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed. Alan Dundes
women may too-much
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner. Arthur Conan Doyle
women worry needs
What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have. Cameron Diaz
women heart mind
With women, the heart argues, not the mind. Jane Austen
women optimistic memorable
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? Jane Wagner
women lasts next
Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one. Bella Abzug
women clothes trying
It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes. Barry Watson
women justice weakness
The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious. Arthur Schopenhauer
women office religion
If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...? Elizabeth Cady Stanton
women past lines
There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them. Doris Lessing
writers
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. John Dos Passos
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
writers
Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre. Sara Sheridan