"Ability is sexless."

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"I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer."

Teresa Wright, American Actress

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"The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another."

Fred Frith, English Composer

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"The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully."

Pat Brown, American Entertainer

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"The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them."

John Ashcroft, American Public Servant

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"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

Iain Banks, Scottish Writer

Ability, Saying, Skill, Worth

"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

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"I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him."

Trevor Rabin, South African Musician

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"Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture."

John Abbott, Canadian Statesman

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"English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it."

Leon Uris, American Writer

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"Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances."

Christopher Dodd, American Politician

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"Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for."

Men

"It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain."

Gentleman

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."

Fault

"It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing."

Men

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning."

Life

"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living."

People

"If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar."

Being

"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."

Corruption

"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."

Literature

"Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish."

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