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		Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nancy Kress 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Aaliyah 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Damien Chazelle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Waite Hoyt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oliver Stone 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Maggie Gyllenhaal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Yukihiro Matsumoto 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Octavia E. Butler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tariq Ali 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The other teams could make trouble for us if they win. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Yogi Berra 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Walt Alston 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Harold Ford, Jr. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ferdowsi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled 'fog'...The motorist replies: 'What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Henry Saint Clair Fredericks 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		Fireflies inside of a mason jar,Acting big behind the wheel of daddy's car.Playing church around the old piano stand,You were quite a preacher and oh, we sang so grand.I remember every night what we would say and do:'If you've forgiven me, then I've forgiven you.'And now when life begins to get the best of me,I reminisce these childhood memories. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Iris DeMent 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was 16 I was fortunate enough to get Cosby and move to New York and shift my whole life. that had been my dream all along, and it came true. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lisa Bonet 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Joan Jett 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Faith Baldwin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nancy Kress