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ADAM GRANT To be honest, sometimes a rock worm feels like cheating because it's fishing a worm. It is a fantast...
ADAM GRANT These flies hatch in the early spring and late fall. It's a dry fly that is usually fished pretty sm...
ADAM GRANT This is a great pattern because you can dead drift a hot head leech, and toward the end of the cast,...
ADAM GRANT The main principles for trout fishing are food and cover. If fish can get under the (ice) shelf and ...
ADAM GRANT It's best to try and get it when the river's coming down a bit. When it's warm enough for the fish t...
ADAM GRANT But we are not thinking about those things right now. We just want to focus on getting better every ...
ADAM GRANT A scud is another one of my other winter flies. On the Reef it is the fly.
ADAM GRANT When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smi...
AMY GRANT I want us to cool down for a while before we end up on horses' said Scully.

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CHARLES GRANT Scared people did scary things sometimes,
MICHAEL GRANT He didn't mind if she hated him. They were never going to be a cute romantic couple like Sam and Ast...
MICHAEL GRANT Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof t...
GRANT MORRISON Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get olde...
GRANT HILL I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the iss...
ALISTAIR GRANT I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
GRANT HILL The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.
JAMES GRANT The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war t...
LINDA GRANT I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think t...
GRANT SHOW Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
CARY GRANT I improve on misquotation.
CARY GRANT I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think ...
GRANT SHOW Sam was slow getting up. To Quinn he looked like an old man standing up after slipping on the ice. B...
MICHAEL GRANT Yelling doesn't get your point across, it only makes it louder.
GRANT HILL Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them...
ADAM GRANT By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for im...
ADAM GRANT 'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' ...
JOHN GRANT Now, with Annie gone, I'm looking for a new dog. I have a lot of duck hunting planned, and I can...
BUD GRANT I had a MRSA infection on my ankle. At the time, I had never heard of MRSA. I didn't really know...
GRANT HILL The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skill...
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