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Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was staring me in…
— Ronald Frame
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One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious…
— Mildred S. Dresselhaus
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Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.
— David Christian
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The fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to the fact that…
— Martin Jacques
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I spend a lot of time on TV doing the same sort of thing. I found a niche in TV where people are willing to…
— Tyler Labine
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When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.
— Mariella Frostrup
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The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle,…
— Walter Kirn
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it…
— Walter Kirn
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To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of…
— Walter Kirn
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As far as my memory being reliable, at the risk of sounding like some sort of gorgeous two-headed monster with the voices of Dave Barry…
— Julie Klausner
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I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked…
— Dan Scanlon
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I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.
— Donald Ray Pollock
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I can put together a pretty decent meal from whatever happens to be in the refrigerator and the pantry. I like the challenge of this…
— Chang-Rae Lee
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I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God,…
— Deb Caletti
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It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers,…
— Seth Shostak
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In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems for them. So,…
— Seth Shostak
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The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I remember going into our backyard with…
— Chelsea Clinton
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I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.
— Clint Eastwood
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Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.
— Dolly Parton
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Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.
— Tom Stoppard
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