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...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.

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• As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Important
  • History
  • Think

• Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Always
  • Name
  • Writer

• If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Space
  • Best
  • Thing

• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Why
  • Happy

• There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Time
  • Great
  • Financial

• As a musician usually music is your way out.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Music
  • Way
  • Musician

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Up
  • May
  • Friends

• Sweet is good. I'm not a fan of deep-fried things.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Good
  • Things
  • Deep

• Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Women
  • Country
  • Trying

• I am not hungry for roles on TV or in films. I am happy being a social media sensation.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Happy
  • Media
  • Social Media

• The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • America
  • War

• Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Movies
  • Release

• When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Me
  • Things
  • Negative

• I wasn't thinking that I was two horrors back to back; I was thinking these were characters that I want to play.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Play

• I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Space
  • Childhood

• The best way to keep water prices down is to avoid unnecessary increases in costs.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Water

• In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Summer
  • Broken
  • Break

• I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.

  

  Feist
  • Writing
  • Blood
  • Stone

• Vampires as creatures have evolved over time as different vampire bloodlines have hit different populations of humans. Every once in a while the blood will make something new and mutate into a new species with different powers, abilities, weakness, physical characteristics, and so on. I don't want to give anything away, but there are whole species and branches that date all the way back to pre-modern times.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Different
  • Giving
  • Ability

• Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Enjoy

• The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Game
  • Hated
  • Beat

• ...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.

  

  Homer
  • Blood
  • Bands
  • Cows