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The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag… — P.J. O'Rourke
Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives… — Sebastian Faulks
Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a… — Francis Alys
Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as… — Randall Kennedy
I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek… — Anne Fortier
Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that… — Willard Scott
The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of… — Ben Shapiro
For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work. — Ciaran Hinds
What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot… — Russell Smith
Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes - then they… — Russell Smith
I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do. — Anthony Edwards
In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best. — Gareth Gates
Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults. — Tom Bodett
Evangelicals too often fall short in their actual teachings about Judaism. — Elliott Abrams
Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts. — Heber J. Grant
Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable for wrongdoing -… — Rebecca MacKinnon
Walmart and other big-boxers could become the center of gravity for the conservation of goods, employ people with actual know-how, and develop deeper, longer term,… — Lisa Gansky
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing… — Seamus Heaney
The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft. — David Hare
It is inconceivable for our unconscious to imagine an actual ending of our own life here on Earth, and if this life of ours has… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training… — Hannah Kearney
Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our… — R A Salvatore
I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around… — Helen Garner
My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with. — Peggy Lipton
However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the… — Samuel R. Delany

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