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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and… — Ina Garten
I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had… — Gail Collins
When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed… — Francis Ford Coppola
My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular. — Joan Didion
On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger. — David Hockney
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. — Frederick Law Olmsted
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms.… — Salman Rushdie
I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted… — Sylvester Stallone
I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following… — J. Michael Straczynski
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who… — Emma Thompson
I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side. — Hunter S. Thompson
Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. — Linus Torvalds
I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to… — Christopher Walken
Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard… — James Wolcott
What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation… — Virginia Woolf
Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life. — Katherine Paterson
That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so… — Dean Koontz
It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff… — Rick Riordan
How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had strong… — Antonio Gramsci
But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and… — Libba Bray
Don't be afraid of StarClan. They will understand about Brokentail. You will be honored by our warrior ancestors for your loyalty toy your Clanmates and… — Erin Hunter
Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out. — Libba Bray
As a young man I was scornful about the supernatural but as I have got older, the sharp line that divided the credible from the… — Colin Wilson
Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies.… — Stephen King
Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left… — Thomas Pynchon

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