I'm a bit more grounded than Daryl. I'm more practical, more pragmatic. Daryl looks more at the creative side. We have very different families, we're very different persons. But because we grew up in the same area and because we love the same music, we have a bond.
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DAN JONES We weren't able to use the film because a Glass production is touring. But they have been very suppo... LORI ZOOK For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at t... KAJOL Is there something in your spirit that keeps telling you it should be different: more interesting, m... DAVID BRAZZEAL We need more diversity - we need more African-Americans on screen, Latinos, Asians, different religi... ALLISON SCHROEDER My life is upside down, but that is okay because it gives me an opportunity to have a different and ... ROSA M. BETANCES Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an id... MARK HELPRIN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The festival is totally different this year. We have more rides, more food, more entertainment and m... 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HINCKS We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sov... DAVID CAMERON In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is diff... MAHERSHALA ALI We have the same amount in the budget, but we will be able to get more streets done, DENISE GRIFFIN We realized we were impacting these families more than we needed. KELLY AVANTS We were more consistent. We fought throughout the entire time. The most important thing was that eve... KATIE WEISMILLER ...The men of those days...were absolutely not the same people that we are now; it was not the same ... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY We just did that because we have more courts here than they do at Granite. DAVE LIPE So far, the response has been very positive. The longer we have this product in its real-world envir... KYLE TEMPLINE That was huge in the game. We got in a hurry and panicked a little bit. We should have been more pat... DARNELL LAZARE We were just two people headed in the same direction, and walking together was better than walking a... BETTE LEE CROSBY The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Men and women are different: we have different tendencies, skills, and behaviors. This should be acc... MILO YIANNOPOULOS We are more alike than different. We Are One. EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ Generally speaking, we definitely have more very large gifts coming in, and we have more people givi... FRANK WHITLATCH We can share the same history, but we have different experiences. TRAYVONE GARRETT We grew up in the Clear Lake area. We have seen the communities fight to keep high-rises out, especi... MARK SMITH A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity,... STONE GOSSARD We are the same, and we are different. 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We know that we are capab... KAREN COOK Because we do relatively small volumes of many different products, if we're not careful, inventory c... ROBERT DAGGETT
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JOYCE CAROL OATES My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a sp... JOYCE CAROL OATES And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequ... JOYCE CAROL OATES The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to whic... JOYCE CAROL OATES What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. I... JOYCE CAROL OATES I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you k... JOYCE CAROL OATES It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your e... JOYCE CAROL OATES My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one anot... JOYCE CAROL OATES The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed - neither summer nor winter, ... JOYCE CAROL OATES It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determi... JOYCE CAROL OATES Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. JOYCE CAROL OATES ; so too, her glazed ceramics and her macramé are interchangeable with those executed by her women ... JOYCE CAROL OATES My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo... JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th... JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. JOHN JAY