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Events Quotes
"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject."
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"Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents."
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"I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have."
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"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
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"A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment."
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"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."
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"Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has dawned upon us, the mind is naturally led ot contemplate the great events that have run parallel with and have just closed the last."
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"I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin."
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"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."
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"By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve."
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"National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness."
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"By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate."
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"I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript."
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"Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs."
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"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."
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"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."
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"There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened."
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"The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events."
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"The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken."
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"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"
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"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."
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