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My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.


Margaret Atwood

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DAN FOGLER It was a good team effort on both sides. The game could have went either way.
LEE FISHER My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I wou...
STEPHENIE MEYER It's such a good way to start. It was a hard-fought game by both teams. I felt like it could have go...
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DENNY LEATHERS It was just the way the puck bounced. We were consistent and pressed them well. It really could have...
BILL FOX It was a great game that could have gone either way and we were very fortunate to win. Manasquan is ...
GEORGE SOURLIS No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so li...
STELLA ATRIUM We knew coming in (Wauneta-Palisade) was a good ball club. It could have gone either way.
DEL SCHOENFISH This game tonight could have gone either way. But we were able to get a couple bounces and get the w...
DANE LITKE It's a good rivalry between us. We've played two close games that could've gone either way. We could...
DENNIS PETERSON I'm not going to lie — I was a little nervous. I know Tommy has a lot of heart. It was hot out ther...
LUKE SHIELDS Both of those matches could have gone either way. Three of the seven matches were three-set matches ...
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JAY CORBY After my injury, it could have gone either way,
JASON ANDERSON We were able to get a couple key wins in the both singles and doubles in matches that could have gon...
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GARY DEFINA I'm really happy with how we played throughout the whole tournament. We won two games that could hav...
JEFF BICKMORE Unfortunately, only one of us gets to go. We got a break in a game that could have gone either way.
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JOHN ARAGON Both art and science are ways to see more in what you're looking at. Good art and good science both ...
LEE ANNE WILLSON I was very troubled, yes. Me and my brother both - we were troubled and troublemakers.
CHLOE SEVIGNY I dont know what was wrong with us. Either we were nervous or were just not that good.
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LAURENCE STERNE I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally boun...
LAURENCE STERNE The second game could've gone either way. They just got a good server to the line at the end and we ...
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BRAD PENNY There were three on their side, the other nine were upright with either one or both sets of wheels o...
JIM FEENY I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both.
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WOLCOTT GIBBS If you like offensive basketball, it was a good game to watch. I wasn't sure either one of us wanted...
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DON CARROLL I think we could put it at the Old Globe. It's great theater and they're both good at it.
DONNA FRYE It could go either way, that's for sure. They're both really big boys.
FRANK GODINA There were times when people could have gone either way. Either back to homelessness and addiction o...
GEORGE HILL This was a good way to end the tournament for us. We were very aggressive at the plate. Everyone got...
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DICK BUTKUS Apart from the little defensive lapses, it was a very good game that we lost, so I won't complain as...
ANTHONY WILLIAMS I knew we were pretty athletic, but I thought we would either take our lumps or surprise people. We'...
BRIAN SMITH But then we missed opportunities, they missed opportunities. It could have gone either way.
DANIEL KERR We were both well-known, teaching, working at our professions and having a good standard of living. ...
DAMIAN NISENSON Either one is promiscuous or in a relationship - it cannot be both at the same time.
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LIAM DURKEE I think we were a little shocked at how active they were defensively. They came out firing on both e...
BEN VOOGD It was good that Chance was on because it was a game that was very close at the end. It could have g...
ERIC NIESLANIK Everyone knows were a good team. We're the same team we were last year. We could have won either one...
DONNIE EDWARDS We had a real game for the first time in two weeks tonight and it was one of those that really could...
JOHN KOSMINA I thought both teams did a great job on defense. You look at the score and you would think both team...
ANDREW STORMS I think we were both nervous at first,
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PAUL TAGLIABUE Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remain...
GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by si...
NINA BAWDEN We like both of them. We're not afraid to use either one.
DARREN YAFAI We both tried to be as competitive as we could. We were both pretty strong willed and we both wanted...
BILLY HUGHES Both teams had chances in the first half and it could have gone either way. It was very typical of a...
GUIDO BUCHWALD Both teams were pretty tight, because this was a big game. There were lots of fouls, but this was a ...
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TOM HERING I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or...
WILLIAM FAULKNER My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength,' in Port...
NIKKI REED I think it could have gone either way. We just outlasted them, we had more left than the Thunderbird...
BILL TORNI I was really pleased with most of the matches. What the score does not reflect is the six matches th...
JACK HUGHES I didn't know we were down by 15. It was probably a good thing we weren't looking at the score too o...
DAVID NOUR I thought either we were making him (Marion) an All-American or he already is one. He's a very good ...
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JOHN DRYDEN We typically don't play very well up here for whatever reason. I don't think any of our players have...
LISA SCHRIVER This match could have gone either way. Richardson came through in many points with fine overheads bu...
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DOUGLASS NORTH We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had ...
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DUANE DUPONT Both of us have perimeter players who are quick and athletic. We both like to attack the basket with...
MARCUS KAHN Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture o...
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JAIME PRESSLY They were very physical and we didn't respond real well at either end of the floor.
JEFF DELLIS If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both.
CARLENE CARTER There's no in between - you're either good or bad. We were in between.
GARY LINEKER I was, without a sliver of a doubt, a no-good, lazy slacker of a child, and after I discovered liter...
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STEVE BIETAU My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremel...
PAUL NURSE I've developed my own passion for them. I decided I wanted to be as good at both as I could be.
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BILLY WALKER We played real well this morning and the game could have gone either way. We had a couple tough brea...
SHAWN ALMOND Were one to call your stupid ism good, well then, one would either be equally idiotic, or a fool, or...
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RICKIE FOWLER I knew it was going to be that close. Anything at all either way could have given it to the other on...
BOB RALSTON He doesn't know what is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him it he looks...
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DOUG GRESETH My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many o...
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MARGARET ATWOOD Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so...
MARGARET ATWOOD Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the brig...
MARGARET ATWOOD The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by ...
MARGARET ATWOOD There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.
MARGARET ATWOOD The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
MARGARET ATWOOD Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Secon...
MARGARET ATWOOD Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
MARGARET ATWOOD We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
MARGARET ATWOOD The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betr...
MARGARET ATWOOD Put yourself in a different room, that's what the mind is for.
MARGARET ATWOOD The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose
MARGARET ATWOOD I think of this as a democratizing device.
MARGARET ATWOOD I'm curious. If someone says 'Don't open that door', I'm right there!
MARGARET ATWOOD The main thing is to keep yourself awake [on writing]
MARGARET ATWOOD For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
MARGARET ATWOOD He's very in depth, on the dark side. He's interested in structure and how things work. After readin...
MARGARET ATWOOD The Orange prize has been pivotal in the careers of many women writers - it's given them that extra ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Just think of it as a very, very long pen.
MARGARET ATWOOD Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one
MARGARET ATWOOD This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
MARGARET ATWOOD We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
MARGARET ATWOOD A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
MARGARET ATWOOD Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are hum...
MARGARET ATWOOD They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to
MARGARET ATWOOD You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
MARGARET ATWOOD Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the Un...
MARGARET ATWOOD Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no...
MARGARET ATWOOD Also I could hear Amanda’s voice: Why are you being so weak? Love’s never a fair trade. So Jimmy...
MARGARET ATWOOD I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices,...
MARGARET ATWOOD Life is warped. I'm just in sync.
MARGARET ATWOOD I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it...
MARGARET ATWOOD We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.
MARGARET ATWOOD My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out...
MARGARET ATWOOD Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important thing...
MARGARET ATWOOD Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
MARGARET ATWOOD Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't chan...
MARGARET ATWOOD She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why...
MARGARET ATWOOD The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more...
MARGARET ATWOOD My self is a thing that I must now compose...as one composes a speech. What I must present is a 'mad...
MARGARET ATWOOD