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We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive. — Bobby Riggs
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on… — Henry Flynt
Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two. — Caryl Chessman
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself. — Shane MacGowan
The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great. — William John Wills
I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books… — Margaret Haddix
The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different. — Frank Luntz
But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be… — Lotte Lehmann
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London. — Peter Shaffer
One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really… — Jan de Bont
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth. — Peter Straub
I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the… — Roone Arledge
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation. — Goldwin Smith
For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can… — Otto Rank
So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they… — Francine Prose
Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the line, the bounds… — Steven Kotler
When I was twenty-five, I went on exactly four dates with a much older guy whom I'll call Peter Parker. I'm calling him Peter Parker… — Mindy Kaling
You look green, immature. A young boy playing at business, dressing up in the manner in which he believes an actual grown-up would. Your viewpoint… — Chris Murray
I don't plan on selling out. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to… — Scarlett Johansson
I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the… — E F Schumacher
A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children. — Dave Barry
Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words… — Neil Gaiman
The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation of… — I. Bernard Cohen
The actual materials are important... A book at the nightstand is important-a light you can get at-or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern. — Allen Ginsberg
The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas. — Baruch Spinoza

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