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Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes. Caitlin Moran
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Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books. Lauren Weisberger
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I was kind of reflecting on my life and certain experiences, and you know, when I'm teaching and coaching my partners on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I sort of use those stories and anecdotes to help them sort of overcome certain fears. Derek Hough
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One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz. Nicholas Kristof
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I am starting to hear more anecdotes about softening in housing markets, and seeing more reports that home prices are growing at a slower rate,
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I can't say it's autobiographical, but I do tell a number of anecdotes that I think are amusing. Bea Arthur
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There aren't many opportunities for celebs to do promotion that doesn't involve anecdotes about a crazy vacation. Dave Foley
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There aren't many opportunities for celebrities to do promotion that doesn't involve five-minute anecdotes about a crazy vacation. You really see them being themselves.
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Hundreds of anecdotes I could relate. It may happen that the pages I am now scribbling over, may hereafter be published.
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In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop. Douglas Coupland
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With 'Hollow Circus,' I used a family story that haunted me as a kid, one of those anecdotes about a family member that would rarely be spoken of in front of the children. Peter Milligan
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It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings. Jane Birkin
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I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes. Chuck Palahniuk
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There are a million anecdotes that show that the College hasn't given students fair warning about work that is being done to their rooms. Students have said that several times there have been two knocks on their door and it opens without warning. Others have experienced workers peering into their windows.
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Steele has had a varied life. A lot of these anecdotes would serve him well if he used them.
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Real-time, on-the-ground anecdotes get to us faster than does the information that rolls up through the reporting process. Those anecdotes are enormously useful and we pay a lot of attention to them.
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We have to ... put more emphasis on the incoming data and the anecdotes we get from the business community and other audiences and try to put together a coherent assessment of the economy.
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Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience. Jane Lindskold
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes Isaac Barrow
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Even though there are a lot of anecdotes that the housing market is bouncing back, these numbers will cool that down a little bit.
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Be warm and personal by backing it up with examples, stories and anecdotes that the person on the other end of the phone can relate to and understand.
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As the flow of subliterary "news items" and anecdotes increases, the writer's work withers and stales until, in grim transference, his life becomes his oeuvre and he his only character.
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Some people exclaim, "Give me no anecdotes of an author, but give me his works," and yet I have often found that the anecdotes are more interesting than the works Benjamin Disraeli
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We expect the housing market will trudge on. For consumer spending, the official numbers will be strong, but by December Bollard will have the anecdotes about how pre-Christmas trading is looking. If it looks like a shocker, he won't move.
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We expect the housing market will trudge on, ... For consumer spending, the official numbers will be strong, but by December Bollard will have the anecdotes about how pre-Christmas trading is looking. If it looks like a shocker, he won't move.
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The audience will feel like Chita is talking to them personally. It's not like a play. It's like this woman is sitting on a chair, telling you these fascinating anecdotes in such a natural way that it's as if you were sitting in the living room with her.
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It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdotes aren't really in line with my beliefs. Besides, if someone sees me on a morning show and thinks, 'That's not funny; this guy is crazy,' then I don't want them to come to the show anyway. T. J. Miller
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Instead of just anecdotes and stories that raise people's anxieties, I think it's best to have real numbers. And now we have those.
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I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I try to keep it real for myself by focusing on individual anecdotes of how my books have helped kids learn to love reading. Rick Riordan
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A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such. John Thorn
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(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times. Mark Rothko
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Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power. Michael Ondaatje