In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
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PETER HOOK From this day forward, I vowed
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God, ...
V.C. ANDREWS John and I go way back. We worked a lot of cover cases together,
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HENRY MILLER The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There...
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JOE BASTIANICH I don't work with a stylist, I don't work with a glam squad to get me together for the red c...
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BHAWOH JUE The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined t...
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STEPHEN DALDRY I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I sit in my little corner and paint until, sometimes, late into the night. And I take my time. And I...
HELEN STEWART Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I...
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CRAIG BROWNING JR Any kind of track that people come back to time and time again means it's pretty good. I have to ima...
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JOSH LEWIS My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the...
ANNE DUDLEY The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.
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SONU NIGAM A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
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MICHAEL MOORE Byron is a great person to work with and I look forward to coaching him this season. On the field, h...
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ALICE MUNRO Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy...
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ALICE MUNRO You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
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ALICE MUNRO Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.
ALICE MUNRO گريس خودش نمي دانست چقدر سرد است، فكر مي كرد اشتياقي كه ...
ALICE MUNRO The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about yo...
ALICE MUNRO In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And thi...
ALICE MUNRO I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything h...
ALICE MUNRO I have recently re-read much of Chekhov and it's a humbling experience. I don't even claim Chekhov a...
ALICE MUNRO I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there ha...
ALICE MUNRO I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange wor...
ALICE MUNRO The constant happiness is curiosity.
ALICE MUNRO I had my first baby at twenty-one.
ALICE MUNRO I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don't obey th...
ALICE MUNRO Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further ever...
ALICE MUNRO It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence.
ALICE MUNRO I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the ...
ALICE MUNRO I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselve...
ALICE MUNRO I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don't think I could ...
ALICE MUNRO Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our...
ALICE MUNRO I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,...
ALICE MUNRO My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and ...
ALICE MUNRO I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls....
ALICE MUNRO That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
ALICE MUNRO I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, ...
ALICE MUNRO Naturally, my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men w...
ALICE MUNRO The game was pretty well played defensively by both teams. It's a great feeling to get the shutout, ...
ADAM MUNRO They made some pretty good shots. They seemed to take advantage of their power plays and they've obv...
ADAM MUNRO It's good to get back in there and have a pretty solid game. It's a great feeling to get two points....
ADAM MUNRO It's good to play well and get the result you want. The two points are the biggest thing.
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ADAM MUNRO I made the first save and tried to get it in the corner, and obviously it didn't go far enough. It w...
ADAM MUNRO I made the first save and tried to get it in the corner and obviously it didn't go far enough. It wa...
ADAM MUNRO You feel like you should get two points in a game like that. (The winning goal) hit my stick. I trie...
ADAM MUNRO He's been a big help. He changed my style to make me more in control. Before I was more reacting and...
ADAM MUNRO He made a big save there. I think it hit his chest. When you're teammates come an bail out you out a...
ADAM MUNRO Losing is a part of winning.
DICK MUNRO You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold rig...
BARRY MUNRO I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of...
BARRY MUNRO I can’t believe it.’ I whispered.
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CHARLOTTE MUNRO He made a big save there. I think it hit his chest. When you're teammates come an bail out you out a...
ADAM MUNRO These people talk about evolution as a theory in crisis - they don't understand the word theory. In ...
ALAN MUNRO Lander did a great job. He used all of his strokes and was so mentally prepared he jumped out really...
JESS MUNRO For me this place is absolutely sacred, it is absolutely special,
JIM MUNRO He made a big save there. I think it hit his chest. When you're teammates come an bail out you out a...
ADAM MUNRO Nobody works in the mine unless they have virtually no other option.
ROBIN MUNRO She didn't jump as well as we hoped she would. She's doing it part time and jumping takes so much ti...
BILL MUNRO I think she felt really good with it.
BILL MUNRO Many of the British groups marched (into battle) with pipes.
BILL MUNRO That's unbelievable. After the preliminaries, we had to adjust to not using starting blocks. I guess...
BILL MUNRO Just look around here. There are a lot of families here.
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CHARLOTTE MUNRO She stayed down real well on the hurdles and her form was really good. She was really focused becaus...
BILL MUNRO She was in the loaded heat for sure. She clipped the third hurdle with her leg again. She had a good...
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LYNDSAY MUNRO They made it deep into the second day at last weekend's tournament. And they picked up right where t...
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ADAM MUNRO He made a big save. He must be listening to the goaltending coach, because he used the body pretty w...
ADAM MUNRO Avalon is full of desperate people.’ She bites at her lower lip this time, fumbling her hands, kni...
CHARLOTTE MUNRO But we aren't a camping family.
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JAMIE MUNRO It's grown so fast, it's hard to find the expertise for a start-up program.
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JAMIE MUNRO Ultimately, we didn't end up getting some breaks we needed to get an upset. Virginia has a great tea...
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JAMIE MUNRO I think we really try to make our guys multi-dimensional. We want complete players.
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LYNDSAY MUNRO Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
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HECTOR HUGH MUNRO We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact th...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, whil...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.
J. RICHARD MUNRO Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one go...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul,...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blam...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, bu...
WILLIAM BENNET MUNRO He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood tha...
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for ...
H. H. MUNRO Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn
H. H. MUNRO I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong th...
H. H. MUNRO We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that will never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never ha...
H. H. MUNRO His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect
H. H. MUNRO The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally
H. H. MUNRO People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime or a broken night's rest than ever they woul...
H. H. MUNRO In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse
H. H. MUNRO Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
H. H. MUNRO Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
HECTOR HUGH MUNRO In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it m...
JOHN MUNRO WOOLSEY But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulys...
JOHN MUNRO WOOLSEY Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
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ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim...
ALICE WALKER I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire...
ALICE WALKER It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated...
ALICE WALKER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new ...
ALICE DREGER One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of i...
ALICE OSWALD The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye ...
ALICE OSWALD I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of hor...
ALICE WALTON It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.
ALICE WALKER I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.
ALICE SEBOLD My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' ...
ALICE BRAGA What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the int...
ALICE MCDERMOTT You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi...
ALICE COOPER If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo...
ALICE WALKER How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th...
ALICE WALKER We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.
ALICE BLOCH Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how I'd describe my style.
ALICE TEMPERLEY I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am...
ALICE POTTER I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean mys...
ALICE ENGLERT I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If every...
ALICE BRAGA The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any
ALICE WALKER Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
ALICE WALKER Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make you...
ALICE WALKER I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have
ALICE WALKER Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre...
ALICE WALKER I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some...
ALICE WALKER It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth...
ALICE KOLLER The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
ALICE COOPER In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,...
ALICE WALKER I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce ...
ALICE MILLER The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native gro...
ALICE WALKER She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch...
ALICE WALKER The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
ALICE WALKER For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that t...
ALICE WALKER A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of ye...
ALICE MEYNELL Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ...
ALICE WALKER The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where doe...
ALICE JAMES It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the childr...
ALICE WALKER One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any ...
ALICE JAMES The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself
conspicuous in the act of laughter.
ALICE MEYNELL Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because...
ALICE LOWE We have met numerous times as a neighborhood. We are united in our opposition.
ALICE MOORE These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to al...
ALICE MOORE I thought if someone is willing to donate them, we're willing to take them. It never hurts to ask.
ALICE MOORE We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title bo...
ALICE MOORE Having separate proceedings will allow the NRC to fully assess the specific characteristics of each ...
ALICE MOORE We were very concerned about a monopoly and really focused on opportunities to bring new retailers t...
ALICE MOORE Our goal here is to provide low prices on high-quality products and excellent services to consumers ...
ALICE MOORE The goal here is to provide opportunities for new retailers to enter our marketplace.
ALICE MOORE The capacity of the human organism to bear pain is, for our own protection, limited. All attempts to...
ALICE MILLER The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painfu...
ALICE MILLER ,,,It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has ...
ALICE MILLER