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Related ARUNDHATI ROY The first thing they said was that it wasn't going to be like last year. They were more emotional th... JEFFERY ANDERSON JODI PICOULT They were so young and so fatalistic. They were caught up in this thing that was bigger than they we... SCOTT DALTON A.E. COPPARD The way they were talking, we thought it was going to be the end of the world. ALAN SEARS CRAIG GROESCHEL Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS JANET FITCH It was pretty smooth. They were really helpful. I thought it was going to be a combative thing. I wa... CHARLES HARRIS TOM HANKS JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU They showed up. I felt all year long that they were a top team in conference. They beat Warrensburg ... JACK BLICKENSDERFER You knew they were going to come at you. It was a no-brainer. I don't think we understood that. Last... DOC RIVERS HOWARD ZINN It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a gro... EDDIE TRUNK ANNE TYLER DONALD MILLER They were laughing, laughing so hard throughout the whole thing. The venue was actually the worst ve... ERIC SMITHEY We really cooperate now - it used to not be that way. It used to be, they were the cops. They were g... LEE MURPHY The things of substance are the things that we need to focus on, but they are the things that seem t... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE When that happened I thought the game was over. I thought it was going to be my fault that we were g... DEMETRIUS SERRANO Looking at the girls that were in front of them, I was not disappointed in that. I thought they comp... AMY BEANER Say what you will about the results, but the nice thing to see was that nobody on the team quit tryi... BILL DREW It listed about eight or nine of the [last] renegade wolves that lived in western Colorado and how h... BOB PERRY He was the only kid that could make a shot. I was begging the guys, 'Give Sean shots.' It was hard t... MARK TURGEON Ultimately, that was what they were looking for. There was no point to go five years -- if you were ... CONNOR TRINNEER Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON I've pushed people who've cared away, to grasp the ones that didn't. I've tried so hard to make some... LAURA KESSLER So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the trad... ROBERT MORRIS Alive, they were distant, not sharing with me...When they were being killed, there wasn't anything g... EDMUND EMIL KEMPER III SOPHIE WU Quite a few people were asking questions about her after the meet. They thought she was older than t... 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KENNEDY ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY The first few plays, we were doing a lot of man coverage and they were doing crosses (crossing patte... NNAMDI ASOMUGHA They both started out [as newborns] in a way that you thought they were never going to make it in th... CAROL PICCARI We were really ripe. You look at our stats, and they aren't much different. The difference was our d... MIKE TURNER TANA FRENCH We thought that meant they were going to be nice. CONNIE KELLIHER In retrospect, it was a scary thing. My wife said the doctors were kind of sugar-coating it at first... BOB ROGERS ANN PATCHETT It was crazy to see all that black and orange. I knew the fans were frustrated and they were going t... DRE BLY I think the better team won. We fought hard, and they fought hard, but they were a little more consi... TURHAN DOUGLAS JON RONSON That was the hardest decision, but I knew it was the right decision. I thought they were gone, becau... DORIS CAUSEY They were a godsend. It was the best thing that could have happened to us. DEBBIE PILCHER They were celebrities, and if anyone thought it was strange that these two women who were so strange... FRANK GALATI That was playoff goaltending. We thought this was our moment to make a move. I don't understand it, ... DON NACHBAUR I knew in advance what they were going to say about John Roberts. They were going to say that he wa... CHARLES PICKERING JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The most shocking thing about this is the reforms we were looking for were so modest. They were noth... JOE RIDOUT We did not anticipate the reaction would be so negative from graduate students and some faculty. Tha... HAL SALWASSER It was less than 15 students that were there. The revocation took place because they just didn't hav... JACK MOYER HUBERT SELBY JR. They were keeping that man out, it was the second guy that was killing us. They were dumping it in, ... HOWARD COPELAND SHAWN MICHAELS RAINBOW ROWELL People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween cand... HEATHER O'NEILL OSCAR WILDE SABAA TAHIR MARKUS ZUSAK The people that were watching us for 10 years telling us why it wouldn't work and they wouldn't i... GEOFF SMITH It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out a... PETER HOOK It wasn't disappointing losing to Wake [Forest]. They ended up winning, as they had the previous two... LAUREN EDELMEIER SHERYL SWOOPES Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard an... CONAN O'BRIEN The one thing that I was afraid of was that (with) them coming off a loss like they came off of ... ... KURT BUDKE DEYTH BANGER I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as... DINAH KATT Finally, Mills got us going. Her cuts were harder to the middle. It was open all night. As soon as w... GEOFF SALMON ROBERT ADAMS Oh man, it was crazy. There was 10 times as many cones, and they were to your right and to your left... ALLISON JOHNSON As we spent time trying to play catch up, it was even harder trying to establish the run. We still h... DON PATTERSON He called me up and said, 'Corey, you know, listen, I'm going to let you go,' ... He knew that was a... COREY SIMON He called me up and said, 'Corey, you know, listen, I'm going to let you go,' ... He knew that was ... COREY SIMON One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of gre... MARIE RUTKOSKI The men and women who forged this nation [USA] were straight-up maniacs about freedom. It was just a... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN I think it just showed homosexuals that being bold, being brave, coming out, you know, was not going... JOSEPH HANSEN Why try to have pigs fly_ Why try to have pigs flyELLA C. Jesus asks me to loosen my grip on the things that matter to me. It’s only then He can fill my han... ANUSHA ATUKORALA Mani nogurdina lielās lietas un norises. Es meklēju lielās norises mazajās. IMANTS ZIEDONIS CORMAC MCCARTHY DADA BHAGWAN
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