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CRAIG GROESCHEL You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
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GARY F EVANS... People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
ADAM JONES GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US HE'S NEVER TOOK A SICK DAY !
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E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts."
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E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
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AARON WARREN Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
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FRANK VAROSI We were a desperate team out there. We needed a win. Defensively, offensively, we just never gave up...
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JEFF AMENT We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun...
DANIEL JOHNS All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do, ......
ALICE COOPER All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... A...
ALICE COOPER If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my gui...
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ART ALEXAKIS We just never really were able to do very much with them. It's a simple thing. They're a much better...
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GRAHAM NASH Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.
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BILL PARCELLS I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
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DEXTER HOLLAND They knew what they were doing. We knew we had to get after them. They were just executing a lot bet...
AMANDA RADOVICH We ran into a very good team. They were on a roll. I think we eventually just ran out of gas. The he...
WALT JOCKETTY We didn't set out to get these six siblings, but it just happened - and are we blessed.
AUDREY THOMPSON a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It just happened to be just the way we wanted -- just the way we pictured that we wanted to do out t...
RENA INOUE My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never ask...
MARVIN HAMLISCH I just don't think we were mentally ready to play at all. We just weren't all there, and it was obvi...
DEAN STORK I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what oth...
AVRIL LAVIGNE In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing ...
TRAVIS BARKER Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of gl...
GARY KEMP I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped...
JOHN DARNIELLE Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ...
BECKY ALBERTALLI Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
CRAIG GROESCHEL 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
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WALLIS SIMPSON DUCHESS OF WINDSOR (Upon a guest admiring her pansys)
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WALLIS SIMPSON, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR A woman can't be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON, DUCHESS OF WINDSOR (Upon a guest admiring her pansys)"Do you mean the ones in my garden or at my table!"
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WALLIS SIMPSON DUCHESS OF WINDSOR Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON DUCHESS OF WINDSOR Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
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BEN AFFLECK Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, altho...
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BEN AFFLECK We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and...
BEN FOSTER The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha...
BEN JONSON A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
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BEN JONSON Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
BEN JONSON It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
BEN JONSON A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
BEN JONSON 'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'
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BEN BERNANKE Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
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BEN HARNEY Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home
Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
...
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BEN CARSON Happiness is a journey not a destination.
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BEN CARSON Success is a journey, not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.
BEN WEININGER No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with...
BEN HECHT People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less critic...
BEN HECHT I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
BEN HECHT In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a bro...
BEN HECHT Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety
BEN HECHT Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravo...
BEN HECHT Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
BEN HECHT Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
BEN HECHT Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
BEN HECHT Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the...
BEN HECHT There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort...
BEN STEIN I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t...
BEN AARONOVITCH But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN If he were
To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
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BEN JONSON Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work...
BEN LINDSEY than any other man who ever ran for office in Denver.
BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something ha...
BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something h...
BEN LINDSEY Do your best and let God do the rest.
BEN CARSON Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JOHNSON Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda...
BEN OLIVEIRA Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
BEN OKRI Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
BEN CARSON 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg...
BEN JONSON Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
BEN JOHNSTON Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st...
BEN SWEETLAND The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.
BEN HERBSTER Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
BEN HECHT You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru...
BEN VEREEN Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
BEN JONSON I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri...
BEN KINGSLEY I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGAN Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
BEN JIPCHO