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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.
deer environment pick suspected
We've always suspected that deer were able to pick up the (infection) through the environment somehow.
deer headlights
The place exploded. And we kind of got that deer in the headlights look.
deer frozen losing move time
like a deer in the headlights, frozen in real time and I'm losing my mind, it's time to move on Tom Petty
deer quills
The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out. Arthur Guiterman
deer learned lost number plans since support utah winter written
Since the plans were written in 2001, Utah has lost some of its winter ranges, and we've learned that some of the winter ranges we have can't support the number of deer that we first thought they could.
deer hunt sit
Sit in a tree-stand and hunt deer, ... In Washington, we have big deer -- Kansas-size deer. Jeremy Affeldt
deer horrendous population saw
There is just a horrendous deer population in that area. We saw 30 deer every day.
deer english-scientist harm herds injury large people though
Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.
deer fully herd public recovered
The deer herd is not fully recovered on our public lands.
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. Alan Moore
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.
hunters littles dangerous
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk) Darren Shan
hunters waiter has-beens
We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers. Eddie Izzard
hunters looks jaguars
The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X. Ben Kingsley
hunters rubber
Inside, I was like: "Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter! Christopher Moore
hunters vegetarian culinary
Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter. Andy Rooney
hunters
So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all. Gregory Maguire
hunters ridden ride
I've ridden my whole life. I used to ride hunters and jumpers. If I wasn't at my work, I was at the barn.
hunters
This was just too much for the hunters and the guides.
hunters interested recognize
It's a real hunt. I think hunters recognize that and are interested in participating.
hunting dating treasure
The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure. Ed Asner
hunting fishing tadpoles
I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest. DeForest Kelley
hunting animal games
A hunter that is worth his salt does not catch game because he sets his traps, or because he knows the hunting routines of his prey, but because he himself has no routines. This is his advantage. He is not at all like the animals he is after, fixed by heavy routines and predictable quirks; he is free, fluid, unpredictable Carlos Castaneda
hunting america faithful
The captains of industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with it. They are seeking brains - specialized brains - and faithful, loyal service. Brains are needed to carry out the plans of those who furnish the capital. Charles M. Schwab
hunting ifs
If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally. Arabella Weir
hunting simply
simply the first day in the dismantling of the hunting (ban).
hunting animal hunters
If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting. Aristotle
hunting issues conventions
University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden. Allan Bloom
hunting loved though
I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was an athlete. We didn't go fishing or hunting or any of the things I wanted to do. Why not? He just didn't do that. Charlie Rose
incidents
Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way. E. L. Konigsburg
incidents looked
When I looked at the incidents this year, it jumped right out.
incidents men suspects
We don't know if the two incidents are related, but it could be that the suspects were working with the two men who were arrested.
incidents nine past seven
We've responded to nine incidents seven in the past two weeks.
incidents comment isolated
Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents. Andrew Flintoff
incidents life
I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things. Harvey Pekar
incidents law martial possible problems solve
If the incidents have spilled over to other areas, it is possible to use martial law to solve problems in such areas. This has nothing to do with the government, ... could do it on their own. Thaksin Shinawatra
incidents knew president series type wickets
The president narrated most of the incidents in the series and he even knew what type of wickets we had in the first two tests.
incidents past
We've had some incidents in the past that we wanted to address. Things are getting unbelievably better.
national-security gross negligence
Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony. Bill O'Reilly
national number people playing team whenever
Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?
national operating response
We were already operating under the National Response Plan.
national sang
I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral. Michael W. Smith
national persuaded reform trying unwilling
We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,
national spell
We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC. LenDale White
national spell
We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.
national people power russian traditions
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside. Vladimir Putin
national people realise
What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest. Kofi Annan
perseverance opportunity iron
The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.
perfect gentleman intimacy
He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.
perfect religion nuisance
Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.
perspective focus attention
Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.
perfect may matter
No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.
perfect waiting heaven
If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself. Charles Spurgeon
perseverance cat may
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.
perfect glory burden
Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.
perseverance saint doctrine
If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.
shapes helping help-me
Competing helps me to polish my shape. Blanka Vlasic
shapes lines pages
To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines. Edith Wharton
shapes matter canvas
No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes... David Hockney
shapes scared
I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't. Edward Furlong
shape
We were a lot better tonight. We were in a lot better shape than they were. They were tiring. We were able to take it to them.
shapes rooms mold
The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.
shapes use wells
Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know. bell hooks
shapes way stories
The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world. Derrick Jensen
shapes body plant
Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them. Desiderius Erasmus