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It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion. Aml Ameen
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I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. William Temple
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Obviously, 'Twilight' had its own alchemy that was amazing, just phenomenal. Nobody thought it was going to make any money. Paramount wouldn't make the movie. Fox wouldn't make it. Nobody wanted to do it. Catherine Hardwicke
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It is alchemy in reverse: the golden rule has turned to dross in his hands Oliver Letwin
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'Lost Girl' has just proven to be one of those shows that people enjoy watching. It has an alchemy about it. It's an escape or a release for people, and that's the best we can hope for. Kris Holden-Ried
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Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious. Carl Jung
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We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not beauty; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos - these are the promises art makes. Kathryn Harrison
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Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon. Tina Brown
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We are probably the only show in daytime that has kept characters on. We've had a number of veterans who have been on the show for over 40 years, and how they relate these veterans to their grandchildren is something I think is very real. Chris Goutman
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There are characters which you spend a lot of time with, and you get to know, and you feel that -- suddenly it's a friend somewhere. And they are nice to return to. Max Sydow
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Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences. Jim Rash
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When you've written your characters into a corner, you just hand the manuscript over to your partner and make her fix it. Connie Willis
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I often hear actors say during their interviews: 'I want to play a crazy person, a murderer, or someone who's on edge.' But that question scares me. I mean, of course there are characters I'd like to play, but I can't really say specifically who they are. It's much too hard to play a convincing normal person as it is. Li Bingbing
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Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when it comes to the characters that I get to illustrate. Lee Bermejo
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When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about. Mark Billingham
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A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to. Hayden Schlossberg
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When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail. Sherwood Schwartz
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All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them. Sam Altman
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You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying. Azim Premji
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Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children. Joseph B. Wirthlin
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The compassion of Christlike friends deeply touches and changes our lives. Joseph B. Wirthlin
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When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success. Enya
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Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying. Erin McKean
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When I heard what had transpired, I was deeply saddened. I resigned in support of Mrs. Wheatley because I know she has given unselfishly of her talent to this community. Richard Rhodes
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Signs that Ford may have capitulated to right-wing extremist groups are deeply troubling. Joe Solmonese
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Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted. Joseph B. Wirthlin
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As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory. David Mitchell
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If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal. Dave Barry
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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post. Bob Woodward
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It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes. Bob Woodward
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Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank. David Brock
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I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist. Ed Helms
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There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm. Bill Nye
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The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot. Bill O'Reilly
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Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their prototype used millions of little magnetic particles, black on one side and white on the other, loosely embedded in the surface of a soft sheet of rubber. Charles Platt
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Though the publishing industry swears the market is oversaturated, books written by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and by embedded journalists keep on coming. Matt Gallagher
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One of the most competitive battlegrounds for our platform as we face the next five to ten years is the embedded space, Steve Ballmer
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We've taken our high-end processors to the embedded space as well. David Rich
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Linux is seen by many to have a strong opportunity in the embedded operating environments market. Dan Kusnetzky
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You're looking at a stock that had embedded expectations in it and those expectations, this quarter, were not met. Jon Fisher
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This move has embedded Jaguar in Coventry and will further strengthen our resources. Don Hume
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The Internet is pretty much a part of how people support their social networks and how people get help to find out issues relative to their health and finances. It really underscores how embedded it's become in people's lives. Jeffrey Boase
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I told Mr. Fitzgerald that Mr. Libby might have thought I still had security clearance, given my special embedded status in Iraq. Judith Miller
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. Charles Dickens
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. Charles Dickens
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This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in. Charles Dickens
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Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. Charles Dickens
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Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. Charles Dickens
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it. Charles Caleb Colton
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Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death. Charles Caleb Colton
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Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see. Charles Caleb Colton
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Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived. Charles Caleb Colton