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average careers long
An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties! Charles Stross
average effort excellent
If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding. Charles Stanley
average space complicated
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen. Alan Guth
average fading saws
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. Alan Greenspan
average excellence refuse
Refuse to be average. Aiden Wilson Tozer
average lasts halls
Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.' Chip Kelly
average people sides
I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people. David Cross
average sound band
Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average. Buddy Rich
average people half
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. C. J. Cherryh
below childlike grass imagine leaves perhaps pretend share sorts unlike
Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies. Mohsin Hamid
below earnings goal improvement increase operations per pleased results share though year
We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted earnings per share from operations was below our goal to increase those earnings 10% to 15% per year over time. J. Hoover
below league level maybe players
We started out at a level below my expectations. But now it is there. Some players have come into the league who have made it better. It's a high-Class A league, maybe even better than that.
below brick days directly filming four looking minutes realised seen spent viewpoint
We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.
below brothers cents contrast number obviously saw stark
When you take out the 15 cents and the 20 cents, you can get a number which actually was below consensus. And that's obviously in stark contrast to what we saw from Lehman Brothers yesterday.
below concentration level normal sentences strange
When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you. John Banville
below farmers forced guaranteed harvest invest lose prices production
When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops. Nell Newman
below blood irish living warm
We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California.
below danger happening knew living orleans sea
When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.
four last match proved ways won
We've won one game. We won four last year. We've got a ways to go before we match last year. We haven't proved anything. J. Taylor
four pages scripts
I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it. David S. Goyer
four guards looking plays using
UNLV plays four guards. So using four guards was something we were looking at doing anyway.
four major played players proud
We are proud to have four players who played a major part in Wednesday's success.
four great last learn practicing
We are practicing with Hartland and they will get us prepared. They've been there the last four years and we should learn from them. They are a great program. B. F. Skinner
fourth half later left moved second third
We usually just have two forwards up top. But later in the second half I moved up a third one, and with about 1:45 left I moved in a fourth one. Kyle Smith
four larger whim
We started this on a whim four years ago. We don't want to make it any larger than it is. It really is a lot of fun.
fourth offensive options struggled third
We struggled to find another offensive weapon. Their third and fourth options made shots, and we're not that deep.
four large plays shows
We are a fluid, but large group. We do a lot of plays and four shows a years.
goes-on cry-the-beloved-country destroying
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it. Alan Paton
goes-on information culture
Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information? Alan Moore
goes-on spirit problem
When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!
goes ottawa series third turn won
We've won one game, that is it. I think what we did is just turn this into a series. ... As the series goes on, you have to play better. We know Ottawa is going to play better the third game. John Tortorella
goes people surprising tend
The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations. John M. Ford
goes land
where it actually goes from land into the water. Jack Horner
goes wear
When you're competing, you have to wear a sleeve that goes all the way down to your wrist. When you're training, you usually don't wear long-sleeved leotards, so there's a difference between training and competing. McKayla Maroney
goes jet punk
My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look. Nigel Barker
goes talk
When you talk to the officers, it's pretty bad. Every day that goes by without some intervention, it's getting worse.
good-morning beauty nature
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Charles Dickens
good-friend trying disability
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
good-life two evil
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine. Charles Caleb Colton
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel.
good-man energy attention
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. Charles Simmons
good-day writing emotional
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.
goodbye farewell heart
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Alan Alda
good-movie complicated enjoyable
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. Akira Kurosawa
good looking
We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time.
hours
One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work. David Kim
hours-in-the-day balance imagine
Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.
hours enticing
I would say just stop watching me, I guess, at this point. That is what I do, and it probably is, in some way, a bit of a lecture. I can see how that's not something that would be enticing for you to watch in a stand-up hour.
hours resilient great-outdoors
All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident. David Suzuki
hours man spent thousands tracking
We spent thousands of man hours tracking down the problem,
hours born merry
To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. William Shakespeare
hours love time
I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back. Gwyneth Paltrow
hours week beats
No one who works a forty hour week will ever beat me. Bill Rodgers
hours minutes macs
The Bernie Mac Show' is my life. It's the truth, and I'm not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life. Bernie Mac
includes mean parents ratings tv
While many parents have used the ratings or the V-Chip, too many still don't know what the ratings mean or even that their TV includes a V-Chip.
includes provisions supported
Like all compromises, it includes provisions that are not supported by everyone in this body, Harry Reid
include local players
We are going to include some of the players who have done well in the local series.
includes western
Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site. Elliott Abrams
include leads orthodoxy tribunal understanding work
An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence. Octavio Paz
included pops
Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere. Twyla Tharp
include program rural send
Send in your letters. We need to make the governor's program a statewide program that will include rural areas.
include levels metal security
She went through all appropriate levels of security to include metal detectors and security protocols.
include job necessary richer
Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done. David Whyte
length-of-life space birth
How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living. Edwin Way Teale
length-of-life important life-is
Width of life is more important than length of life. Avicenna
length just-live wells
Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman
length
Right before I'm about to talk at length about something I like I say, Get me started. Demetri Martin
length saying short time words yes
Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.
length predator prey wants
She's a predator and she wants her prey. And that prey is my grandson. She'll go to any length to get him.
length science technology
Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply. Erez Lieberman Aiden
length likely sway time
It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last. Lady Gregory
lengthy less needed practical stories
Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish. Kate Atkinson
outsiders actors able
Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous. Al Pacino
outsiders faces like-you
It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine. Chloe Sevigny
outsiders care i-dont-care
I've been an outsider all my life - I don't care.
outsiders different freak
But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along. Darren Shan
outsiders
I love playing outsiders, I always do. Antony Sher
outsiders sitting-down castro
I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No. Bill O'Reilly
outside plays rely shooting
We were at the rim, and didn't have to rely on outside shooting and we made the big plays when we had to make them. We always want to make it interesting though.
outside regular society three trying
We were trying to live outside regular society three months.
outsiders
I've always been interested in the outsider. Charles de Lint
repair spinal time
You only worry about your head or spinal column. Everything else, some way or another, will repair in time. Tony McCoy
repair slow soon utility
There is a leak, a slow leak, and it's being blue-staked for utility services. As soon as that's completed, we'll do a repair on it.
repair role step
Our role is not to repair the dikes. Our role is to step in if something happens. Michael Chertoff
repair seeks
Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury. Lewis B. Smedes
repair services slower
Some other services may be slower as well, like repair or installation.
repairing
A shippe and a woman are ever repairing. George Herbert
starting
I like starting. It's pretty cool. Al Leiter
starting-out starting hard
It must be really hard to be starting out in music now. Bryan Ferry
start sweep top
When you sweep the stairs, you start at the top
start
When you start to see cancellations, you really get worried.
start
When you start to know what you're doing and why you're doing it, it makes it better.
start subjective talking uniform
When you start talking about prospects, it's a very subjective term. The way I look at it is as long as you've got a uniform on, you've got a chance.
starting-over kindergarten wells
We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten. Kurt Vonnegut
starting-over teapots starting
Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them. Billy Dee Williams
starting-over finding-yourself world
I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself. August Wilson
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.