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I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.

Madison Smartt Bell

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I regard the 'Descendants' as a melodrama, and all scenes have been the trappings to increase the element of romance, I thought. In that sense, I am very satisfied and have great respect for the decisions of the writers.

Song Joong-ki

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As I started to study old blues recordings and really pay attention to my favorites, it really started to come to me that all of my favorite pieces of music weren't produced, they were performed. The producer is nearly invisible: no thumbprint other than the composition and the performers.

Rodney Crowell

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You can play as good as you want, but you have to sing from a place of living.

Ry Cooder

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I wear weird things sometimes. I like to drink coffee. Neither of those things have anything to do with who I am.

Mary-Kate Olsen

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I'm a relatively unfocused person.

Michael Korda

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There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.

Douglas Brinkley

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If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Dean Acheson

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At the World Cup, most teams changed their style when they played us and maybe were more defensive. In the final, we didn't know if Holland were going to do the same, but the important thing was we beat them in the end.

David Villa

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I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

Bryan Adams

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I just feel this is my planet.

Allen Iverson

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Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point about him.

Suzanne Fields

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