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Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example, I…
— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying…
— Sean Lennon
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There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel…
— Howard Schultz
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In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The…
— Bruce Catton
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Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless but there is a lot of work. It’s…
— Carine Roitfeld
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If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what…
— Cory Doctorow
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If we all make systematic mistakes in our decisions, then why not develop new strategies, tools, and methods to help us make better decisions and…
— Dan Ariely
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We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic…
— Robert McKee
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Why am I exactly this and not that being? at this point of unlimited space and in this moment of infinite time? in this group…
— Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
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Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to…
— Teresa Nielsen Hayden
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Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly, it’s something more animal and more fickle- more like lust. We don’t lust after very many things in…
— Elisabeth Eaves
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In fact, I think that our society expects schools to get students to the point where they do things only for outside rewards. People who…
— Kirsten Olson
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You could make your fingers reproduce exactly what you felt, if you really worked at it. I achieved it, not only spending a lot of…
— Lennie Tristano
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Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective Ralph…
— Richard Lederer
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The experience would be that a customer would have total access to Burberry across any device, anywhere, and they would get exactly the same feeling…
— Angela Ahrendts
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The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten. In that World…
— Jahangir Khan
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The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in you system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times…
— Ron Jeffries
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Asking women to respect themselves in order to ‘earn’ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But suggesting that you…
— Clementine Ford
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One cardinal rule in behavioral medicine is that unless it is interfered with, your body knows exactly what it is doing and always does the…
— Jill Johnson
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Democrat flaks jump on this like ducks on a June-bug, and in the process themselves reproduce the sick militarism of this culture that automatically valorizes…
— Stan Goff
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I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx.…
— Zahi Hawass
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I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.
— David Johansen
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You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.
— Orson Scott Card
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A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.
— John Cage
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