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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
answered cold food goes happy joe quality
As long as I can look at Joe and say, 'Is my food cold or late?' Or (if) the quality goes down, (and) all those are answered no ... to my satisfaction, I'm a happy camper. Paul Kreutzer
answered aware everybody finding questions
Offensively, he is finding his niche. I think he is well aware there is probably more there. Most of the questions everybody had about him going in should be answered by now. They have for me. Clint Hurdle
answered beating court great job press time tried
We did a great job of beating them down the court in transition. When they tried to press us, we answered just about every time with a bucket. MONA MARTIN
answered call challenged
We challenged the kids, and they answered the call today. Jay Lasley
answered board certainly definition determination hostile impacts ncaa question remain today university
There's no question that the university and the board of trustees are going to have to look at what the NCAA put out today and make a determination on how it impacts the institution and go from there. Certainly some things remain to be answered from today and one of those things is the definition of what is hostile or abusive. G. H. Hardy
answered coming fast flat kept knocked momentum moving run threw wind
We had the wind in our sails. We had all the momentum and moving fast but they just kept coming back. They flat knocked down their shots, and then that 3. They answered every run we threw at them. Derek Johnson
answered fast key momentum
We answered back fast and put a lid on their momentum. That was key to put their momentum at bay. Paul Jerrard
answered argument authority both chief commander derive exactly executive facts obviously particular position question rely side whatever
Senator, that's a question that I don't think can be answered in the abstract. You need to know the particular circumstances and exactly what the facts are and what the legislation would be like, because the argument on the other side -- and as a judge, I would obviously be in a position of considering both arguments: the argument for the legislature and the argument for the executive. The argument on the executive side will rely on authority as commander in chief and whatever authorities derive from that. John Roberts
answered door follow help joe knew later nobody thinking
I answered the door and he was begging, ... He would kind of follow the Ports around thinking Joe would help him. Nobody knew who it was and Joe later told me who it was. Ron Shelton
dry hurt
As dry as it was, I don't think it will hurt anything. Jim Burns
dry gets ground next ready trying
Once the ground gets saturated, we get slides. We're just trying to dry out and get ready for the next one. John Swenson
dry land sudden turn
You take a turn and you think it's the river, and all of a sudden you're on dry land and you have to back-paddle. John Brill
dry until value water
We do not know the value of water until we go dry Irish Proverb
dry few goes older points quick season spells
We just kind of go through dry spells occasionally, and we would give up a few quick points here and there. You want to get older as the season goes on, but occasionally we still show how young we are. S. E. Hinton
dry guy until
You go to the guy who's hot, and we're going to keep going to the well until it's dry. And he wasn't dry tonight. Steve Adelsperger
dry hands lead middle paint throw
You get started on a project, and more comes up. You find lead paint or dry rot. It happens. We're not just going to throw our hands up in the middle of it. Carol Carter
dry plants rain ready trees
The trees and plants are ready to take up some rain now. It's been so dry and the streams are also low. Brian Lovejoy
dry spring tend volunteers worst
We tend to concentrate our volunteers in the two dry seasons, spring and fall. The worst things are rain-outs. Richard Hulbert
expect minutes practice rest swelling
That was about 20 minutes into practice. He did not practice the rest of the time. Has some swelling there. We'll see how it feels. ... I would expect it would take a lot to keep him out of the game. Ben Howland
expected gave knew people
People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this. Robert Vincent
expecting fall instead oil
Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise, John Hughs
expected following next order parameters preserve pressure prime situation treatment type
The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours. Shlomo Yosef
expect great hate loyal sure thunder
The Thunder has great fans, and they're very loyal to their team, so I know they hate me. I'm sure there will be a lot of boos. I expect nothing less. Tyler Fleck
expect gas government guarantee low natural supply withhold
Now, I don't expect our government to guarantee us low natural-gas prices. I do expect that our government will not withhold natural gas supply that they control. Dan DiMicco
expecting slightly statement vote
The statement was slightly more hawkish than we were expecting but there was one vote of dissent. Kamal Sharma
expect horribly normally sort
is horribly disappointing and the sort of thing I normally expect from left-wingers. Laura Bush
expect next overall saying slight total year
There won't be a total downturn ... overall we expect a slight weakening next year and I think all manufacturers are saying this. Andreas Renschler
expectations giving return
The more you do for others without expectation of return, the more you'll get back from the most unexpected sources. Brian Tracy
expectation four goals kick needed
What we probably needed to do was not put that expectation on that he's going to kick four goals every game, M. Thompson
expectations done sincerity
I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life. Bruce Lee
expectation felt films rest tv
To be honest, I just didn't want to say ""Thank you,"" ""Please,"" and ""Come again"" for the rest of my life. I felt like if I wanted to do this - films and TV - I didn't have the expectation that someone else would write for me. So I started writing for myself. And for the most part, I lied. Orlando Jones
expectation god hiv praying smooth sounds three
Two capsules here, three capsules there. It sounds like nothing, but when they're HIV meds, they're expensive. So I'm praying to God it's going to even out. Everyone had an expectation that this was going to be a smooth transition, but it hasn't been. Not even close. Rose Ferlita
expectations young stage
I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore. Anthony Hopkins
expectation flood huge
The expectation is there will be a huge flood of trains, and that is not going to happen. John Bromley
expectations heaven earth
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. Chuck Palahniuk
expectations degrees boxes
Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down. Chuck Jones
hope people percent town
Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail, Toby Keith
hope implacable race seven
After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open. Christian Prudhomme
hopefully relay run struggling work
Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better. Kirk Pedersen
hope peace
Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while. Mike Slive
hopefully improving progress saying work
I've been saying we're a work in progress, and there's still improving to do. Hopefully we can keep getting better and get to where we want to be. Shane Murphy
hope pass
Things we do not hope for often come to pass than things we wish. Titus Maccius Plautus
hoped reasonably testimony upbeat
This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for. Ian Shepherdson
hopefully
This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season, Tim Frisby
hopefully last time
This is the first time and hopefully the last time I'll have to do that. William Henderson
life motivational inspiration
Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. Ben Nicholas
life motivational perseverance
You just can't beat the person who never gives up. Babe Ruth
life and-love moments
Live life messy and love every moment of it. Ashley Smith
life hate love-is
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love. Baruch Spinoza
life dream killers
Isolation is a dream killer. Barbara Sher
life believe forever
I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day. Barbara Sher
life responsibility bewildered
I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it. Arthur Miller
life lying ridiculous
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. Arthur Miller
life beautiful writing
Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it. Arthur Adamov
prayers
The prayers worked, very simply. But we need more prayers. He's not out of it yet. Andrew Abraham
rains sums
When it rains it pours. That about sums it up. Steve Smith
seasons
I do swimming, but that's only two seasons out of the year. Brian Payne