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Related Fairyland...Paradise...In this place and at this time, Marguerite could know that the one was a para... ELIZABETH GOUDGE Everyone that has ever done anything significant first found themselves in the place where the statu... TEMITOPE IBRAHIM Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down. LEMONY SNICKET I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming... PAT CONROY Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach... HARUKI MURAKAMI Michael J. Fox was my idol. I always wanted to be Michael J. Fox. DAVE ANNABLE Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put t... ANGELA CARTER In the corrupt court there is no possibility to dream or to make contact to love. 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BETH LEONARD Actually, when I did see this place, I realize something could happen here. I knew by digging the gr... KATINKA DE MONTAL We kind of want it to happen overnight, or I do, but it's going to take some time. This could be fiv... DON POWELL This was a fireplace where you could roast your hot dog. Your roadway experience really could be a w... LIZ WALTON Here, her hand in mine was the one reality that severed us from the cold click-clack of Hell. I rubb... STEVEN L. PECK A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world RON RASH America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles n... THOMAS WOLFE America - It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles n... THOMAS WOLFE It's very exciting for me to come back to Utah. This is a place I'm very familiar with and a place w... BILL KINNEBERG Getting into a bidding war with J&J is bad enough. 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FOX There have been millions of dollars poured into this place to take that temporary, wooden camp and t... JOHN O'BRIEN It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where ... CLIFFORD D. SIMAK There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had. RAYMOND CARVER If Michael really felt that Rubens deserved the win, all he had to do was slow down and cross the li... JACQUES VILLENEUVE I wanted you to have a place where you felt safe enough to cry if I could not be with you. ERIN MORGENSTERN I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew... RACHEL CUSK We were all from different clans. Each clan society had a tent where their members could get out of ... BILL MCCASKILL I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where w... SARAH DESSEN When I had no place to live and I had no place to sleep - and I did sleep in the Metro - I held stea... JEREMY SCOTT When people are waking up to who they really are, they search for a place like this. HEATHER CLARKE It wasn't like walking into a bar. I immediately sensed there was something different about this pla... AMY POWELL The garden is a miraculous place, and anything can happen on a beautiful moonlit night. WILLIAM JOYCE No place in the world prides itself more on its vigilance and realism, no place considers itself mor... SEAMUS HEANEY There is no right time and right place for love... it can happen any time. SHAH RUKH KHAN To ask why a happening in one place did not take place in another place also is the sign of a confus... SRI SATHYA SAI BABA A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't. BURT BACHARACH Devices that allow people to shoot up to 100 rounds of ammunition at one time have no place in our s... ELIZABETH ESTY You're more than likely going to get turned on to something that you had no idea was out there in a ... CARL WEBB I had a growing career as a model and an actress in London - I had starred opposite Michael Caine an... PERSIS KHAMBATTA The farm subsidy program is something that was put into place over 60 years ago, and it was put into... STEPHEN FINCHER I've had a string of second places lately, and I was just thinking I don't want a second place again... CHIP PETERSON There is no doubt that a lot of work needs to be done to update the law and this could be the first ... GALIA ETZION If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy. BRUNO TONIOLI Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. ALAN ALDA It was huge. We hadn't been scoring early. Things fell into place today. LARRY VERBAGE Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. EMIL CIORAN I tip my hat to San Diego, they had a first-place season. Our guys, to get to this point from where ... MARK PARENT I was very happy with our early progress today, we were able to move up from 17th place into fifth a... SCOTT SPEED The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was pu... STEWART O'NAN Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. DOUG STANHOPE I could go on like this forever, but would I ever find a place that was meant for me? Like, for exam... HARUKI MURAKAMI To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experie... TOMMY CHONG Treasuries are a safe haven and obviously a place where oil producing countries could place money. CHRIS PROBYN the only place I could feel the pain was in my heart, the place where I’d wounded us both. MEREDITH WILD I was totally shocked that a professional tax person could have done something like this to me. I ha... MAGGIE LOFTUS It was a moment where everything fell into place. I said afterward that it couldn't get any better t... GARRETT KRONER For me, happiness is waking up excited even though you have no particular place to go….. CHERYL RUSHTON There was this one guy who used to come into this one club all the time, ... and he had these glasse... EDWARD NORTON Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there i... PETER S. BEAGLE To my surprise, it was a place where my thoughts were the most lucid. I wasn’t bogged down in rand... M.B. DALLOCCHIO We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to sav... E.M. FORSTER I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and... ADRIENNE MAYOR It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it. MACAULAY CULKIN That time was fast enough to place him in the top 12 at state. BRIAN HOLM Instead of admitting fault and trying to put something in place to make sure this doesn't happen aga... DOUG MORGAN There is no place in the world where nobody dies. There is no place where nobody is hungry, or nobod... CHRIS WEITZ Early, we got caught up in the emotion. Then, they got on a roll. This was a great basketball game. ... TRAVIS HANNAH I was safe in this world. This was a place for creatures—I felt I had become more of a creature th... ASPEN MATIS They said that they felt that everything they saw was encouraging, that this would be a place where ... JEFF WHEELER A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can ma... JOHN MILTON It was kind of a no-brainer. It was the only place we could afford that would take a dog. DOUG WARREN It was kind of a no-brainer, ... It was the only place we could afford that would take a dog. DOUG WARREN I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in t... FIDEL CASTRO I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in t... FIDEL CASTRO I have one message for those cowards, the killers that actually did what they did last week: There's... AUDAY ARABO
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FOX My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student o... MICHAEL J. FOX The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can se... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research. J. MICHAEL BISHOP If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy... MICHAEL J. FOX People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not be... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we belie... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's ju... MICHAEL J. FOX My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation. MICHAEL J. FOX I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. MICHAEL J. FOX My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, i... J. MICHAEL BISHOP When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, st... MICHAEL J. SAYLOR The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United S... MICHAEL J. SAYLOR Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, o... MICHAEL J. COHEN I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan... MICHAEL J. FOX Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you. MICHAEL J. COHEN Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any a... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but... J. MICHAEL BISHOP Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's pos... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless i... MICHAEL J. FOX Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What mak... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others...... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Pity is a benign form of abuse. MICHAEL J. FOX The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are. MICHAEL J. FOX Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient... MICHAEL J. FOX After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going... MICHAEL J. FOX There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can mak... MICHAEL J. SAYLOR What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological current... MICHAEL J. SAYLOR You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a te... MICHAEL J. FOX I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interes... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going... MICHAEL J. FOX I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is... MICHAEL J FOX My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd ... MICHAEL J. SAYLOR If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those f... MICHAEL J. FOX I think there's a god and I know it's not me. MICHAEL J. FOX There's a rule in acting called, "Don't play the result." If you have a character who's going to end... MICHAEL J. FOX When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an opt... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in s... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning act... MICHAEL J. FOX