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There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I like making movies. I like the process. I like trying out new ideas, and if they don't work, they don't work.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making. — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
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The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Rapture teaching is one of the most faith deadening teachings ever preached. It has the most neutralizing affect on a Christian's aggressive… — Bill Hamon Copy Share Image
I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes.… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
To be a deep listener, one of the first things we have to do is give up the need and the desire… — John Earle Copy Share Image
Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my… — Max Landis Copy Share Image
This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
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When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
In order to make a normal-sized record, a singer songwriter should have a couple dozen finished songs. Once they go through the… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
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My main objective with every album is to capture a moment in time, which usually makes the whole process very relaxing. I… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
It's hardly news that the Obama administration is intensely and, in many respects, unprecedentedly hostile toward the news-gathering process. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
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Modern government has become a universal transfer agency that utilizes the political process for distributing vast measures of income and wealth. It… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
We just have fun with our NFL Draft coverage because we understand that it's a long process, and there can be technical… — Rich Eisen Copy Share Image
Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk… — Siobhan Fahey Copy Share Image
The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial… — Nassau William Senior Copy Share Image
I wanted to have a shoe as a professional, and that sparked that creativity and thought process of what that could be… — Spencer Dinwiddie Copy Share Image
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This is a business meal. The calories do not count. I am mentally labeling these as 'business calories' so my body will… — Cathy Guisewite Copy Share Image
Scientists want to know the evidence behind a statement; they want reproducible tests and verifiable facts. There is a big difference in… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the… — F. W. de Klerk Copy Share Image
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All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
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I actually don't know much about Jaclyn Moriarty's process or where her stories come from or who inspired her characters. I just… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
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