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"But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices."
Thomas Perry
"But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices."
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"On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches."
Boris Spassky
"On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches."
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"My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls...one of those."
Hailee Steinfeld
"My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls...one of those."
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"As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it."
Ajay Devgan
"As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it."
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"All these older kids here, and I'm the only one from a town that's so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you'd run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there."
Herschel Walker
"All these older kids here, and I'm the only one from a town that's so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you'd run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there."
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"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know."
Lewis Carroll
"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know."
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"But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings."
Robert Peel
"But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings."
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"I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time."
Gabriela Sabatini
"I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time."
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"I hate wasting people's time."
Daniel Day Lewis
"I hate wasting people's time."
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"If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time."
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"I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys."
R. Lee Ermey
"I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys."
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"I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it."
Larry Wachowski
"I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it."
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"I'm a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy."
Ron Wood
"I'm a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy."
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"Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time."
Bobby McFerrin
"Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time."
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"I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time."
Enya
"I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time."
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"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn."
Walter Scott
"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn."
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"For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!"
Jay Leno
"For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!"
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"I just try to take it as it comes. One autograph at a time."
Kristanna Loken
"I just try to take it as it comes. One autograph at a time."
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"I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense."
Christopher Walken
"I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense."
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"Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end."
Vinoba Bhave
"Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end."
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"I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time."
Christy Turlington
"I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time."
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"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
Thomas Szasz
"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
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"Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading."
Jasper Fforde
"Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading."
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"It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well."
Michael Chabon
"It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well."
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"Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet."
Chris Brown
"Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet."
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"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."
Martin Heidegger
"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."
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"It's an interesting time that way. It's hard to meet good girls down here. It seems like they're all after something and interested in their own lives."
Scott Speedman
"It's an interesting time that way. It's hard to meet good girls down here. It seems like they're all after something and interested in their own lives."
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"The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything."
Lee Iacocca
"The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything."
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"I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish."
Ivan Reitman
"I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish."
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"No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination."
James Joyce
"No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination."
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"I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural."
Carl Sandburg
"I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural."
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"But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing."
Oliver Stone
"But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing."
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"Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be."
Garth Ennis
"Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be."
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"The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed."
John Philip Sousa
"The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed."
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"I met Donald Trump in '85. I ran into him several times throughout the years. We knew we had this connection, but it wasn't appropriate timing. So we'd spend a lot of time on the telephone. By '88, I knew I truly loved this guy."
Marla Maples
"I met Donald Trump in '85. I ran into him several times throughout the years. We knew we had this connection, but it wasn't appropriate timing. So we'd spend a lot of time on the telephone. By '88, I knew I truly loved this guy."
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"Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat."
John Eaton
"Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat."
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"Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast."
Jean de La Fontaine
"Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast."
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"The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise."
Jim Clyburn
"The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise."
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"I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place."
Donald Davis
"I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place."
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"If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process."
Taylor Dayne
"If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process."
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"I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while."
Francis Ford Coppola
"I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while."
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"I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking."
Todd English
"I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking."
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"Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake."
E. L. Doctorow
"Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake."
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"Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way."
Donna Karan
"Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way."
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"There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go."
Rainn Wilson
"There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go."
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"And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission."
Robert Rauschenberg
"And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission."
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"Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time."
Robert Vaughn
"Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time."
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"You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
"You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length."
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"We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking notes the whole time. Then I do a rough layout of the issue, showing what happens on each page. Then we discuss that some more."
Phil Foglio
"We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking notes the whole time. Then I do a rough layout of the issue, showing what happens on each page. Then we discuss that some more."
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"What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at."
Rafer Johnson
"What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at."
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