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american-novelist musicality point
The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. Rick Moody
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Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. Richard Russo
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With my gaudy, exotic material I wanted to create large, dreamy constructions that would not be decorative but powerfully expressive. Edmund White
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It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. James F. Cooper
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Through Kinsey, I get to test my ingenuity and my skills with imaginary firearms... all without leaving the safety of my office chair. Sue Grafton
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There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. Sinclair Lewis
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Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway
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Life is extremely complicated. I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior and alternatives of that behavior. Robert Ludlum
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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
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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.
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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.
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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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There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, 'Come in here and do this.' Denis Leary
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'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.
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A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. Edith Wharton
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We're making money on the freighters at the moment, but not a dramatic return.
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We're going to take some pretty dramatic steps to provide industry-leading safety. Ross Levinsohn
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We're more than happy to profit from short-term fluctuations, and we think this morning's dramatic drop is very short-term,
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With the large increase in workers in the extractive industries in our state, we've seen a dramatic increase in drug activity.
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very dramatic news about the extent of Syrian involvement and involvement by top officials in the Lebanese government in this assassination. John Bolton
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We're looking at the headline news, but the market is being supported by the girders of the economy, a basic, strong foundation, ... I don't expect a dramatic rally from here, but we are very much on track for a high-single-digit, low-double-digit total return for the year.
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We want to see that he gets some national recognition.
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There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo. Michael Specter
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The other team starts to feel, 'It's just not our day.' And our team gets that great save as a lift. I think that's what happened at that point.
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We're in good shape and the guys understand the plan. It just gets down to making plays and handling the different wrinkles. Bob Stoops
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Where Shock is now, he is light years away from where he was back then. He could play back then, but now he gets in there and he doesn't hesitate. He can play, and he knows that. That's what makes him so dangerous.
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Where it gets really complicated is some player reps are on different teams now and some aren't even playing. Some executive-committee members have retired. So who gets a vote? Who still has a say in the matter? Without those guys in there, should somebody be promoted?
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Whenever this gets done, there's going to have to be a long healing process with fans, management and players.
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When you're young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work - at acting - as something precious. It gets you out of the stink. Mickey Rourke
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When he gets to the league, people are going to wonder, 'Where did this guy come from? And we'll say, 'We knew it all along.
zone
An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones. David Lange
zone
He's kind of in the zone right now.
zone
He was in command. He was down in the zone all night. John Gibbons
zone
He was up in the zone a little too much. Rick Renteria
zone
Some of that is a construction zone now, John Goodwin
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The first cities to create friction-free enterprise zones will get a lot of entrepreneurial traction. Mark Cuban
zone
That's where we come in. We have to get in the end zone more.
zone
I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly Pat Metheny
zone
You got to zone everything out and go out and do your assignment.