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american-novelist musicality point
The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. Rick Moody
american-novelist burden freedom lose realize until
Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. Margaret Mitchell
american-novelist time tour
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. Richard Russo
american-novelist create decorative exotic material
With my gaudy, exotic material I wanted to create large, dreamy constructions that would not be decorative but powerfully expressive. Edmund White
american-novelist exhibit form masses men public substitute usual vice
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
american-novelist imaginary ingenuity leaving office safety skills test
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
american-novelist eminent figures opposite questions raised reality rhetoric
The reality has been the opposite of the rhetoric especially when questions have been raised about eminent figures in the establishment. Serge Lang
american-novelist
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. Thomas Berger
american-novelist art asking questions science source
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
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The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument. William Williams
assertion critical difference fed funds gold percent quarter rate stand
We stand by the assertion that a quarter percent better fed funds rate will NOT make the critical difference to medium-term and/or long-term gold investors.
assertion classics decade evidence fiction joseph maria takes tim time took war western
There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.
assertion countries figure foreign global individual interest interests meets needs policy served
Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks. John F. Kerry
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Japan's decision to build more intense relationship with India as reflected by two countries assertion to upgrade their strategic dialogue is indicative of newer realignment of forces in Asia.
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There is an avalanche of evidence that will show that Noe's association with the coin fund was widely known, and making the assertion of concealment is preposterous.
assertion associated fact itself man manner reality wisdom
Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion John Galbraith
assertion confession course cowardly followed steady strength
There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly Dwight D. Eisenhower
assertion body create criticism given mirror movies time written
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it. bell hooks
doubly good jimmy prepare
Jimmy is not a good talker, ... prepare doubly hard. Jimmy Smits
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Roberts said. ''This is my team. It's special. It's doubly special for me. I missed school to watch this team play. I had dreams of playing for the Padres. Roger Clemens
doubly fear hard public work
I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard. Kerry Stokes
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As you get older, you have to fix your insides, because your face naturally gets a little crabby-looking, so if you're thinking mean thoughts, you look doubly mean when you get older. You can't hide it. Lea Thompson
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The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past Marcus Aurelius
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They needed more people even if they had stayed here (in Southern California). Every one of these announcements hits them doubly hard. Even if they hadn't lost a soul, they were going to be shorthanded.
doubly
It'll come. When it does, that's when he'll be doubly dangerous. Steve Young
doubly funny hard
It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer. Jill Soloway
doubly totally wiped
It's totally wiped out. ... It's devastating, it's got to be doubly devastating on the ground. George H. W. Bush
humanity certain provision
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions. Charles Wagner
human-nature abstinence appetite
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . Charles Dickens
human-nature lifeless permanent
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. Alan Watts
humanity architect grey
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'. Chip Kidd
human ordinary rest
We know 'Willie Time' is under two minutes. He's just an ordinary human being for the rest of the game. Jerry Johnson
human learn sure
We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed, we're going to have to learn to live off the land. Scott Horowitz
human
Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.
humanity end-of-the-world world
Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime David Mitchell
humanity originality specks
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
humorous might canada
Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked. Charlie Chaplin
humorous rejection acting
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
humor wicked-world politician
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
humor envy praise
Expect not praise without envy until you are dead. Charles Caleb Colton
humorous eye men
There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.
humor shields darts
Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery Charles Simmons
humor want goes-on
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
humor comedian realizing
Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense. Alan Moore
humorous mind looks
Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it. David Sedaris
insults-you insult permission
No one can insult you without your permission. Eleanor Roosevelt
insults-you insulted ifs
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted. Juvenal
insults newspaper objective totally
This newspaper is completely and totally objective and unbiased. I don't want to dignify their insults with comments. Michael Hoffman
insults-you giving insulting
She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it. Portia de Rossi
insults-you insult fangs
What are you doing here?! (Aimee) Come to inadvertently insult you some more apparently. Who knew? (Fang) Sherrilyn Kenyon
insults ironic johnson man memory returned sam visit
How ironic that Sam Johnson has just returned from a visit to Hanoi yet insults the memory for the man who go him out of the there. Bob Johnson
insults-you insult speak
If you speak insults you will hear them also. Plautus
insults-you who-i-am may
I don't like what you`re doing, but I won't insult you. Why? Because who you are tomorrow may be better than who I am today Tariq Ramadan
insults-you paris frenchmen
I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely. Josephine Baker
known
The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53 David Almond
known nonlinear terms
There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk. John Hull
known taught
I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard. Marian Seldes
known throughout true
Throughout the ages, they are known as wise, who weep, remembering the True One.
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When I turned on the TV one day and saw he was the offensive coordinator for the Patriots, the first thing I thought was ... Charlie? Wow, maybe I should have known that since I'm in sports broadcasting. Of course, now I try to get tickets and can't, and he doesn't return phone calls. Bob Golic
known
Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown. Chris Crutcher
known people
If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited. Tom Stoppard
known number sailing
We have a number of sailboats in the club, and we don't want to be known as just a powerboat club. We want sailing people, too.
known
Let it be known you are a lackey, a crony...