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Our main focus will be to have a quick start and not wait until the second half to make plays.
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Paul is my childhood idol and when sober is a wonderful person.
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Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur. Bernard Arnault
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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place. Berkeley Breathed
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I think sometimes when our childhoods are difficult, we forget that there's also a lot of joy. Brad Goreski
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I wrote a letter to them saying, 'No, I don't want to collaborate,' and they kept coming back. Why would I want to be involved in moments of my childhood which I never want to return to? I want nothing to do with this film. I will never, never in a million years go to see it. Ted Hughes
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My mother taught me to read when I was still quite young, and at least in my memory I passed the majority of my childhood reading. Eric Allin Cornell
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Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. The Years
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From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament. . . . The dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. Bernard Berenson
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Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages. Jojo Moyes
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Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.
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It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful. Edmund White
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