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You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a… — Ernest Gaines
Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line. — Theodore Roethke
If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the… — Kurt Vonnegut
You put me in a race where there's a lot on the line, especially when people tell me 'you can't win', or 'you're too small',… — Unknown Author
You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb is clever and… — Jason Calacanis
When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs.… — Doris Roberts
I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label. I… — George Carlin
When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in honor of the victory. I… — Ulysses S. Grant
In a lot of ways, I was kind of crossing lines of what I thought I was comfortable doing. I had to do all this… — Robert Pattinson
The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who… — Robert Graves
As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary… — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Some men of the line regiment who had appeared on our right started running back. I shouted out to them to halt, but they took… — Unknown Author
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me… — Walt Whitman
I could never toe the party line. I'd wear out the carpet crossing the floor. — Hazel McCallion
The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its… — Unknown Author
The road ahead may be difficult for all Australians, but we need not be divided on partisan lines. — Tony Whitlam
The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he… — Alexander Berkman
From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has been the ultimate… — Simon Schama
I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job. — Will Estes
One of my many theories about short stories is that their titles and first lines ought to be memorable, because if not memorable they will… — Damon Knight

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