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I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria III: The Dismembering of the Clampett Clan' or 'The Oklahoma Meatgrinder Massacre' or some such. The headaches unleashed by watching attractive kids die week after week after week cannot be imagined.

Stephen Hunter

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Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.

Michael Ignatieff

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I want all types of people to look at my work and see themselves, just like I watch a Reese Witherspoon movie as a black woman and can empathize with her because we have had to internalize whiteness in that way to survive.

Amy Sherald

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Nouns are seldom improved by the modifier 'public.' Few of us, given a private alternative, prefer public restrooms or public transportation or public displays of affection.

Steve Rushin

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For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

Michelle Williams

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I can't remember the last day I didn't train.

Michael Phelps

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I'd be lying if I said that any part of writing is easy for me, but I have always found that setting comes more naturally to me than, say, writing action scenes.

Molly Antopol

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As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.

Christina Romer

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The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.

Bob Livingston

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All I can do is try to show people that I can play well and try to change their opinion.

Ashley Cole

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The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

William Odom

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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

William Frederick Book

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'Rescue From Gilligan's Island' was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like that, everybody else started to have reunion shows.

Sherwood Schwartz

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