S. S. Van Dine Quotes
Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I was a tomboy.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
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You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
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The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.
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Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.
