Douglas Brunt Quotes
Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.
Douglas Brunt
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I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
Kate Moss
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
Gavin Newsom
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I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.
Hailey Gates
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
Kate Mara
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
Ian Rush
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
Aaron Sorkin
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
Park Shin-hye
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I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or - the worst of all abuses among economists - a 'sociologist.'
Ha-Joon Chang
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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
Ian MacKaye
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
Zana Marjanovic
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
Iman
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
Yvette Nicole Brown
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The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
Olympia Brown
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The Amendment nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded modes of discrimination.
Felix Frankfurter
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Very seldom do I write words and have somebody put the music to them. If I'm writing lyric and music at the same time, I usually finish the music rather quickly.
Paul Williams
The Temptations
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I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!
Judy Blume
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The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.
Maureen Dowd
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Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.
Douglas Brunt
