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american-author authors coming
Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. Mickey Spillane
american-author arbitrary given information point structure text
The point is that you could structure this arbitrary information in any way. Well, given that, now we can write text that can go in all directions. Ted Nelson
american-author angel anybody body hustler internal scribbling traffic wondering writer
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening. Herbert Gold
american-author government happens moved power protect quickly sure
We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer. Michael Connelly
american-author
What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.
american-author people
Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.
american-author feeling success toward
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
american-author difference individual views
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.
american-author dogs
The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him. Kathleen Winsor
asked reason
The only reason why I know is because I get asked all the time.
asked definitely
The person we interviewed is definitely the person we got. He's real. He's doing everything we asked to do.
asked bank money people star
The people who got star loans, they just went to the bank and asked for a loan, so they didn't take away in any way money someone in New York.
asked court courts forced pleased supported talk
We are pleased with this decision. We asked them to talk to us when they made this change, and they wouldn't. That forced us to go through the court system. And yet again, the courts have supported our position.
asked leave leaving listening people
We've always asked people to leave earlier, but because of Katrina, they are now listening to us and they're leaving as we say,
asked talking
We started talking and half-jokingly, I think, I asked if he would be in (the movie), and he said 'Yeah, I could do that,'
asked ball invites knocked nobody president weak
If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore. Luis Walter Alvarez
asked autographs embarrass festival hope natalie signed
I've signed autographs as Natalie Portman. I was at a Film Festival party where someone asked if I was her, and I didn't want to embarrass them, so I signed the autograph as her. I hope she doesn't mind. Liane Balaban
asked brothers guy looked scientists similar theme three truck whether works
We actually got it from a guy that works at a U-Haul truck place in Berkeley. He thought that the three of us all looked very similar to one anotherwe all had on glassesand he asked whether we were all brothers and we said no and he asked whether we were all scientists. We said that we were not, but that was the theme of the name. Chris Cain
disney movies mtv
I go to the movies, and I watch MTV and the Disney Channel. I admit I like 'Hannah Montana.'
disney
If you're one of the Disney kids, it's like you have to talk about having a promise ring, you know? Nolan Gerard Funk
disney eight half last literal onto people production sound staff stage stepped time
Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go - production staff and actors. I stepped onto the sound stage and it was a literal time warp. Jacob Young
disney-channel
Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow. Brenda Song
disney family leading supposed
Disney was a family film studio. I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with someone, that was the end of Disney. Tommy Kirk
disney exciting finally golf win won
When I finally won a golf tournament, it was relief, it wasn't excitement, ... If I were to win (today), it would be a much more exciting win than the one at Disney World.
disney drove impressed meticulous
When I was 10, we drove to Disney World. When we arrived, what impressed me most was the meticulous attention to detail; there wasn't a gum wrapper anyplace. Jason Kilar
disney horse last past year
Last year was like going to Disney World for the first time. This year, I've got past all the distractions . . . kind of like a horse with blinders. That's what I try to be.
disney special
She wanted this one last, special trip. She had always been to Disney World, but never to Disney Land, and she wanted it for her girls.
element front
I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience. Lorraine Bracco
elements light
There are some elements over there that I feel once there is light and activity...they will go away. Christopher Bailey
elements
There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately. Anton Corbijn
elements good scripts three time
Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.
elements band good-things
Having a visual element to your band is a good thing. Billy Gibbons
elements kind poet
The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant. Denise Levertov
elements belief standing-out
The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success. Charles Garfield
elements wanted humans
From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it. Beth Orton
element outside
There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.
might stairs lorry
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord. Charles Dickens
might use disaster
But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny... Charles Stuart Calverley
might god-bless bless
God blesses us so that we might bless others! Charles Stanley
might wells ifs
I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact! Alan Moore
might quiet
Dead … might not be quiet at all. Chris Bohjalian
might outcomes infinity
For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true. China Mieville
might naked world
Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out. Dave Barry
might tools ifs
If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.
might ruins bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. Buenaventura Durruti
operating rate regular resume slow work
We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.
operating-systems programmers defined
To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API. Charles Petzold
operating point result slightly
From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.
operating point reward risk taxpayers
From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.
operating purpose time turn
What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.
operating paper piece
We're operating from a piece of paper now, and we'll see what we can do.
operating point room
My vantage point on the world is the operating room where I see my patients. Atul Gawande
operating policy result work
The operating result was good, but the company's hedging policy didn't work out this time.
operating release sales toward windows
Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule