I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.
Nicholson Baker
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I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work.
Joel Coen
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Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple.
John W. Dawson
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Whenever I do the sign of the cross, it always brings comfort in situations when you are faced with adversity and stress.
Troy Polamalu
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Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.
Robert Caro
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There is no reason that billionaires should crowd us out from our democracy.
Martin O'Malley
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'The Firebird' just symbolizes a lot for me and my career. It was one of the first really big principal roles that I was ever given an opportunity to dance with American Ballet Theatre, and it was a huge step for the African-American community, I think, within the classical ballet world.
Misty Copeland
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I just want to go out there and play to my full potential, and play a healthy season, know what I'm saying?
Jason Pierre-Paul
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We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.
Christopher Cross
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There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.
Bob Hawke
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With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.
Ashley Tisdale
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It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.
Peter Bichsel
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I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
Muriel Spark
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