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almost frenzy gotten people puzzle surprised
I'm not surprised that people like the puzzle -- I thought that was almost certain. I am surprised at how people have gotten into a frenzy about it.
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I'm not trying to convert you. You're going there almost like a critic. ... If you happen to get converted, that's off the clock. Jim Henderson
almost filmmaking generates health impossible income less playwright
I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance. Tony Kushner
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I lived in Portland for almost 20 years, and that's where my eldest daughter went to college. I missed the sunshine. I grew up in L.A. Art Alexakis
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I lived in Brooklyn for a couple of years. The community is very close-knit already. I remember it was raining that day, so it was a weird kind of funk on the crowd. It was so endearing to feel everybody coming together. It was almost like a cleansing. It felt super-new, renewing. Erykah Badu
almost chopping crushed dangerous exact garage opposite steel studio
I like the studio because it's delicate; you're working for sound. I like the garage because chopping up lumps of steel is the exact opposite of delicate. The garage is a more dangerous place though. I've never almost been crushed by a guitar, but I can't say the same about one of my Corvettes. Jeff Beck
almost few innings left matter runners scoring second third today trouble
In the first few innings she had some four- or five-pitch innings, but our trouble today was that we left (eight) runners in scoring position. We really had opportunities in every inning almost ? in the second I think we left runners on second and third ? so it's just a matter of getting those runners across.
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In the first century A.D., members of the growing Church in Corinth were enthusiastic about the gospel. Almost all were recent converts to the Church. Many were attracted to it through the preaching of the Apostle Paul and others. Joseph B. Wirthlin
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In the last period, we saw almost a 50 percent increase. We're going to watch the sales of the remaining gift cards and make a decision about what we're going to do.
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In the last few years, the take-out service has almost outdone the eating in.
almost fact funny given known life lighter opportunity plenty side spend stage talking trying
In the film world, and I know this from just talking to other people, that I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor, and the fact is I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that. Campbell Scott
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In the face of geopolitical tension and oil up almost 4% for the day, the market held up extremely well. Today could've been a nasty day, but everything still performed well. This was a decent end to a lackluster week.
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In the early '70s he started hitting on that. It may have been because the country was moving into the Bicentennial. It was a pretty strong song and he performed it at almost every show, at the end.
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In their mad rush to fulfill their own personal agendas, the FBI and the media almost destroyed me and my mother. Richard Jewell
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In the 1990s Maine had one of the highest youth smoking rates in the country among teenagers - and between 1997 and 2005 it declined almost 60 percent.
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In some respects it's almost too bad, Frank was such a fixture on the South Boston waterfront. It's almost too bad he's not going to be here to realize his dream.
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In such a budget, should NASA receive almost a 6 percent increase? Is it the highest domestic spending priority? I don't think so, and I doubt my colleagues will either, Sherwood Boehlert
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world. Damien Chazelle
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Instead, I found someone with an almost mythic character and I knew I had found the Chairman. Ken Watanabe
almost baseball coming drawing excited games nfl people playoff stand stories terms thrilling watching
In sports, there's really nothing like postseason baseball in terms of drawing story lines, coming to conclusions, watching stories develop. In the Yankees-Red Sox series, Games 4 and 5 were two of the most thrilling games you'd want to see, and when you have a buildup like that, people are going to be excited to see Games 6 and 7. In football, the games can be just as thrilling, but they stand on their own. A regular-season game in the NFL has almost a playoff feel some weeks. Joe Buck
almost art bad deal exploring helps people perceptive pursue
In my opinion, if you want to pursue an art, especially acting, you have to be really perceptive of what people go through. There is so much bad in the world, and I think that acting it out and exploring it almost helps you deal with it. Rita Volk
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In our first 14 months of treatment, we have succeeded in slowing the progression of my prostate cancer down to an almost negligible level, ... (My wife) Jean and I are thrilled and incredibly relieved and finally feel like we can at last take a breath. Dan Fogelberg
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Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers.
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In one respect, it's easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attention than anywhere else. Almost everyone will try a new place once, irrespective of the reviews, because it's a spectator sport. Danny Meyer
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In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble myself with the Kennedys. Not because of my portrait of JFK - which was highly laudatory - but because I had described his parents, Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, in less-than-flattering terms. Nigel Hamilton
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In prior years you couldn't drive more than a couple blocks without seeing scores of these signs for one candidate or the other. It was almost like military forces had their troops ready for battle.
almost believed door guys past racing season shock trying
In past years, guys were racing out the door trying to get out of here. Now it's almost a shock that the season is over. We really believed we could take this thing all the way.
almost claim detail familiar otherwise paint rooms
I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention. Marilynne Robinson
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I like to fight poverty. For almost 10 years, I've been using in my sermons the message that fighting poverty is good business, and I've used Wal-Mart as an example. The question is how do you fight poverty with high wages or low prices? The answer is both. Andrew Young
almost call feeling impossible team
I like to call it getting happy. Once you 'get happy,' there's not a lot the other team can do. She was really feeling it, and that's almost impossible to defend.
almost catch caught chance somebody tried
I just tried to give somebody a chance to catch it. He almost caught it. Jason White
almost certain engaging experience female itself men point somehow supposed
I just think there are certain men who feel like engaging in a story told from a female point of view is somehow a feminizing experience. And that itself is something that they're almost supposed to not want to engage. Mike White
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I just remind the members of this House that we have now almost a trillion dollars left in the budget to do more tax relief for the American people, and you know what? We're coming back, Tom DeLay