I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary.
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Related I think its really disappointing. Jim Thome did a lot of good things for this town. It was kind of e... OZZIE GUILLEN I know it sounds like a lot of money. But in the context of their lifestyle, it's really not. Beside... BRUCE MCNALL In spite of how terrible this has been, a lot of good things are coming out of it. KAREN JONES One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made ... AIMEE MANN This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and... VINCE GILL This is a really strange incident. We don't have these things happen in the winter. If it's a canal ... LT. DANA MAXFIELD I never realized just how many things I really hated until you walked out the door and out of my lif... ANTHONY T. HINCKS We don't really base it around good and evil or the moral impact of the story, ... We just don't inc... KRIS JAMSA I done a few things in my life that I'm not proud of, but this is the first time I ever felt really ... STEPHEN KING It's weird ... I can't believe it happened to me. We're just a normal, hard-working family. It's goo... CHARLOTTE HOLTZCLAW I really don't know how good we are yet, ... It sounds odd, but we are still finding out some things... MIKE HOLMGREN I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overvie... RON PERLMAN There's going to be a lot of things happen between now and then, and from my point of view, I just c... RICHIE MCCAW This is another bad thing that happened, but I know great things are coming for me. I feel like I've... REX GROSSMAN This is a life decision for Dany. There were a lot of unfortunate things that have happened during h... STACEY MCALPINE I don't really pay a whole lot of attention to the numbers and the things that bear out during the d... MELINA KENNEDY I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missi... VICTORIA AZARENKA Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really ... NATALIE DU TOIT What I really need is for people to know that I don't just do this, I do this and this and this ... SUZANNE SOMERS How did I do that? It's a long story. You know, kids, boys, explosive things. It will happen. HUGH LAURIE Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at thi... FRANCIS CHAN In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of th... ALAN BALL A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn'... DREW HOUSTON A lot of my guys that you really don't know about that will dictate how things play out at the end o... DOUG STONE 'Onward' was a song I wrote in Montreux, in Switzerland, when we were there camping out for ... CHRIS SQUIRE I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed imposs... DAVE EGGERS I really don't know how many passes will be thrown my way this season. It varies from year to year b... DANTE HALL I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really f... ELLIE GOULDING A little bit surprised I guess, I don't really expect that. But I think when it all comes out - I do... STEVE YZERMAN We had a great group of guys at the start and at the finish. There's definitely a difference in atmo... JAYSON WERTH It all happened really fast. I've seen things like this on TV, but never seen it up close. Emergency... JENNIFER CORDER It really was a miracle that things just worked and fell into place, ... I feel like there was a rea... ARON RALSTON It really was a miracle that things just worked and fell into place. I feel like there was a reason ... DONNA RALSTON it is the function of a poet to relate not things that have happened, but things that may happen, ARISTOTLE Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... KILROY J. OLDSTER School is really a big part of my life. I really believe in the things we do. DARBY HECTOR When you get to be my age," Maude said "most things were a long time ago. But in here?" She tapped h... LAURA ALDEN When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness. BARBARA KATZ ROTHMAN This must be I guess the most extreme form of unintended consequence, but it seemed to me a great me... JOSEPH KANON I think Jeremy wants things, and I think that's a great moment when (Mirabelle) says, 'You should ju... CLAIRE DANES It's just one of those things that happen in hockey. But we have a nice streak going against them, a... MARTIN GELINAS I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. RANSOM RIGGS There are things that I can tell my friends that I just can't tell my family, just as far as how... JONATHAN LEVINE I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen. RALPH LAUREN Yeah, I heard it all, I made it, I know exactly what it's going to sound like. Can I explain it? Nah... CHINO MORENO I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and... BO DEREK This was a great experience for me. Last year I only got in seven rounds total, so this is a fight t... BRIAN VILORIA I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happen... LEWIS CARROLL It seems like we've had our fair share of bad things happen this last winter. These kids were all th... BRIAN REIMERS It's important in a situation like this to keep everybody positive. I've told the kids that things l... DAN BROWN I hate to say it, but shit really does happen. You just have to get over it. Beat the hell out of it... J.A. REDMERSKI There's things during the trial that were out of my control, ... At times there's things in our live... AMBER FREY A lot of things that happened [in the past] would have broken anybody else. I was able to survive. T... JENNA JAMESON Schematically, it doesn't really change things, ... We'll still do a lot of the same things, but guy... TEDY BRUSCHI It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appr... JAMES CAAN Of course if things happen in the way that they apparently happened this time it may play into the h... CELSO AMORIM As a whole, I'm very proud of them and where we've come. It's unfortunate that really two out of the... BRIAN LARAMEE Sometimes it's like I have to remind myself that that really happened. We were a good team ... Not a... RAY ALLEN There are four types of people in this world.There are people that make things happen. There are peo... UNKNOWN My life is a series of things that just happen. HAROLD RUSSELL This is surreal. A lot happened in the three years that I took off. I did a lot of reflection inside... BECKY FRANCIS Grow Utah Ventures is one of the most innovative, interesting, progressive things that has happened ... JEFF EDWARDS Last week I had a lot of things that I needed to adjust in terms of my swing. But this week I didn't... AI MIYAZATO I feel a lot more prepared to do my job during live missions because of the things that can happen o... JOSH THOMAS I don't really have a whole lot of tools. I guess I have to have a little bit to be in the big leagu... CODY ROSS It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very i... DIANE KRUGER It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan ... WANDA JACKSON The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind. CAROLINE KNAPP To tell you the truth we needed this win a lot more than I needed this record tonight. There's a lot... BRANDON COLE I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I ... ALICIA SILVERSTONE I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it beca... BILLY CRYSTAL It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who... FEFE DOBSON I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that... ALICIA SILVERSTONE I didn't think about that until it was pointed out. But Abigail's Party is one of my favourite thing... JULIA DAVIS I don't dream in black and white, so I guess it's this whole other side of things for me. DANE HANSEN I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of t... TIM O'BRIEN My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I th... SHAUN TAN As I look back on it, I know our season ended the day J.V. died because I know none of us got over i... DAN DIERDORF This is a huge confidence boost for both Ash and I just to know that we're really close, and we've b... AMANDA MERRELL This is out of character for Tony. He's led a law-abiding life. We don't know why things happened. JAMES KILBURN It really changed how we do things in sports. Certainly, nothing happened to preplan or expect what ... MARK SPITZ Some of the things really happened. Some of them are just a movie. DAVID LATTIN I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is ... MAISIE WILLIAMS That game will be a real challenge. But I think this is a good sign. A lot of good things happened. BOB SCHNURE it just happened. I wasn't at my best. This year was not good for me. I take things how I take them. SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and ha... MEGAN MCCAFFERTY I guess I won't be doing any photo shoots for a while. There's a lot of love between us, but sometim... CUTTINO MOBLEY It only takes one or two guys to get things started. This team can hit. I know we were in a slump fo... DAMON SUBLETT Things like that really don't happen, but this is not your typical suburb, it's part of the city. JAMES HALL You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary sub... LIANE MORIARTY It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to p... WANDA JACKSON Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations... DARYN KAGAN I've been writing this record for the past five years, and I've written about things that happened d... LISA MARIE PRESLEY In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happe... BILL GATES We did have a lot of people from a lot of different places come in here. And whether they came here ... DON VON HEMEL All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynica... CONAN O'BRIEN The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary. VITTORIO GRIGOLO If you told me I had to hand in a roster tomorrow, I could do it. However, we know from experience -... BRUCE ARENA
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(31.26) MARKUS ZUSAK It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them. MARKUS ZUSAK The soft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying to the floor like powder. MARKUS ZUSAK I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writ... MARKUS ZUSAK Now I've changed things. I've left my own fingerprints on the world, no matter how small, and it's u... MARKUS ZUSAK In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory hum... MARKUS ZUSAK You can't eat books, sweetheart. MARKUS ZUSAK One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me. MARKUS ZUSAK A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter. MARKUS ZUSAK I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that ra... MARKUS ZUSAK When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up w... MARKUS ZUSAK People observe the colors of a day at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quiet clear that a day... MARKUS ZUSAK See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never re... MARKUS ZUSAK And why?’ He pauses. ‘I did it because you are the epitome of ordinariness, Ed. And if a guy lik... MARKUS ZUSAK She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head ... MARKUS ZUSAK I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish. MARKUS ZUSAK The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds... MARKUS ZUSAK How many times did she have to say goodbye? MARKUS ZUSAK Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held t... MARKUS ZUSAK Here is a small fact: You are going to die" "does this scare you? I urge you don't be afraid, I... MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT *** ABOUT RUDY STEINER He didn't deserve to die the way he did. MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT *** ***ABOUT RUDY STEINER*** He didn't deserve to die the way he ... MARKUS ZUSAK The moon was sewn into the sky that night MARKUS ZUSAK The question is, what colour will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sk... MARKUS ZUSAK There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking,and there are soft,coal-colored clouds... MARKUS ZUSAK He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would... MARKUS ZUSAK He had what he called just a small ration of tools: A painted book. A handful of pencils.<... MARKUS ZUSAK She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was ... MARKUS ZUSAK An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis. MARKUS ZUSAK Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in. MARKUS ZUSAK If your eyes could speak, what would they say?. MARKUS ZUSAK Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of a... MARKUS ZUSAK The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was no... MARKUS ZUSAK