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The reality has been the opposite of the rhetoric especially when questions have been raised about eminent figures in the establishment. Serge Lang
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Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. Thomas Berger
american-novelist art asking questions science source
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit. Earl Derr Biggers
american-novelist musicality point
The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. Rick Moody
american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
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Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
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But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here. Katherine Dunn
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The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
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The external environment continues to be very difficult, ... We have continued to reduce our capacity to match demand from our customers, improved our operations and began to realign staff resources to better our financial results.
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When I entered the Manhattan School of Music, I felt great pressure living and studying away from home. Then I began to compose pieces, like writing diaries. Each piece is inspired by my own experience or the true stories of friends around.
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When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe. Sharon Kay Penman
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I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids. Stephan Pastis
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The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me. Aasif Mandvi
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Physicists explain creation by telling us that the universe began with the Big Bang, an intense energy singularity that continued expanding. But who created the singularity? Ashwin Sanghi
began breath enormous glad great until
The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on. Ted Chiang
began drums early guitar music playing seven took until
I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously. Tom Curren
began few great hold playing start
We know we couldn't hold the great start we began with. But we must start playing how we did in those first few games.
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We want to play well, but certainly not at the expense of playing players that aren't healthy. Our goal is for our team to be healthy for the first round of the NCAA Tournament. John Brady
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We have seen a lot of good linebackers with Miami and some of the teams we play, like N.C. State. He certainly ranks up there with them. I've always kind of had the feeling that when you get in the group with the top-five, it doesn't matter. You are so good at that point, you're good. He can change the game I know that.
certainly plate potential speak step
We have to get better. We're a better team. We know what our potential is. Certainly I need to do a lot more offensively. I can only speak for myself. I've got to step up to the plate and do my job. Alex Rodriguez
certainly compete larger last schools season whether
We have to find that out. We'll see. I'm not sure. The way they've been working we'll certainly be more competitive than last year. Whether we can compete with the larger schools and the co-op schools, this season will tell.
certainly internal suspicion tickets
We have no idea how those tickets got out there, but we certainly have no suspicion of any kind of internal source. John Asher
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Whenever you have a collapse in a particular output price -- and we certainly saw a lot of that following Asia's decline -- it places a lot of pressure on companies to deal with keeping their revenues up. In that context consolidation isn't a big surprise.
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We have played to win throughout the series and will certainly be doing that again, Michael Vaughan
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The expectations certainly were on her this year. Everybody knew that she'd be the player to stop on our team. But she went out every night and produced. I knew I could always count on 20 points and at least 10 or 12 rebounds a game from her. Matt Murphy
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The fact that other people are worse off than us is certainly cold comfort for those in Germany who have to count every cent.
envy wish way
There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way. Agnes Repplier
envy purpose good-work
the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
envy design lucky
To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be. Charles Caleb Colton
envy praise envious
The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.
envy reason instinct
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
envy victory spy
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
envy mediocre
Envy is the religion of the mediocre Carlos Ruiz Zafon
envy virtue envious
No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own. Charlotte Lennox
envy people may
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness. Bertrand Russell
poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry. Charles Dickens
poetry qualified
Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically. Louis MacNeice
poetry fruit mute
A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. Archibald MacLeish
poetry indignation
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] Juvenal
poetry mind body
Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Camille Paglia
poetry wish way
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
poetry silence never-quit
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Charles Simic
poetry teach
poetry had everything to teach me about life. Diane Ackerman
poetry littles spirituality
I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it. Craig Johnson
poets since
But since he died, and poets better prove,Theirs for their styleI'll read, his for his love. William Shakespeare
poets simply words
We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words John Fowles
sincere substitutes ardent
There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.
since
Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel. Thomas Steinbeck
since wrote
I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11. Kris Kristofferson
since stimulated
We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners. John Hull
since truth version
I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born. Kristin Gore
sincere loses
How can we lose when we're so sincere? Charles M. Schulz
sincere insincerity show-business
That's what show business is, sincere insincerity. Benny Hill
since wee
I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl. Neve McIntosh
since
I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little. Lindsay Lohan