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An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

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• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Scary

• I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reading

• The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • People
  • Romantic
  • Surprise

• I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Soccer
  • Fan
  • Sure

• I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Wonder

• What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Me
  • Worries
  • Professionalism

• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Words

• There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Kids
  • Team

• We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • World
  • Work
  • Improvement

• I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Live
  • I Can
  • Outside

• Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • She
  • Woman
  • Admire

• My main inspirations come from early '90s Trance, the French electro movement round '06, then a bunch of artists like Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Moby, The Prodigy. So I'd say it's some kind of experimental electronica with a strong hip hop influence. It's chilled, but people can still get super crazy and dance to it.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Strong
  • Crazy

• My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Up
  • Running
  • Exercise

• How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?

  

  Dan Burton
  • Food
  • Drug
  • Safe

• I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Soul
  • Hate
  • Yourself

• I've probably got lots of heroes. One is a chap called Charles Campbell - he is a wonderful chap. We cooked together in a nightclub in Notting Hill. He told me brilliant stories of food and life and generally put me on the right track.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Life
  • Together
  • Food

• My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Money
  • Know
  • Son

• I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years while getting my masters at Georgia State. I thought I hated it at the time, but I've been back a couple of times since, and there's no place I've lived to which returning is so much like visiting a place I only remember from my dreams.

  

  David Liss
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Couple

• There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.

  

  Frederick W. Smith
  • Free

• If there be any thing in my style or thought to be commended, the credit is due to my kind parents in instilling into my mind an early love of the Scriptures.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Mind
  • Parents
  • Style

• Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Good
  • Men
  • Done

• It's silly and demeaning to rate teachers using only the poorly defined 'learning gains' on the FCAT.

  

  Luke Ford
  • Learning
  • Silly
  • Teachers

• An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

  

  Alain de Lille
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