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		It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.
	
	  Damon Hill Damon Hill
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		The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.
	
	  Patrick deWitt Patrick deWitt
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		The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
	
	  Said Sayrafiezadeh Said Sayrafiezadeh
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		God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
	
	  Orson Pratt Orson Pratt
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		Dresses are beautiful, but I'm such a slacks or a jeans person. Whenever a woman has a slick suit or dress on, she looks sharp.
	
	  Talisa Soto Talisa Soto
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		If you put a much older woman in 'Doctor Who,' they can identify with it. I think it's quite an interesting concept, and if you remember things like 'Grimm's Fairytales,' the older woman is often the villainess, often the terrifying figure - why I do not know, but often she is. I think it's an idea to be exploited.
	
	  Kate O'Mara Kate O'Mara
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		You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are the end of music. We are the end of this tradition. Music is done."
	
	  David Longstreth David Longstreth
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		In Europe, faced with the choice between human rights and gas, many politicians pick gas.
	
	  Boris Nemtsov Boris Nemtsov
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		We know that Elijah did return—at least twice—after Malachi's promise. At Christ's transfiguration, Elijah appeared on the mount to Peter, James, and John. At the Kirtland Temple, April 3, 1836, Elijah appeared to the Prophet and Oliver Cowdery and said, 'The keys of this dispensation are committed into your hands.'
	
	  Russell M. Nelson Russell M. Nelson
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		The readership for 'Sag Harbor' was different from people who'd read me before - it was linear and realistic, not as strange as 'The Intuitionist.' Did they carry over to 'Zone One,' a story about zombies in New York? Some, some not. I'm used to people not caring about my other books.
	
	 Colson Whitehead
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		Only a little while ago the oceans seemed unassailable—too big and stable to be hurt by man, too teeming with life to let him ever go hungry. But now we know better. Suddenly, even the myriad creatures of the sea are suffering from human intemperance. The offal of cities circles the world in global currents; beaches are strewn with the cast-off artifacts of men two thousand miles away.
	
	  Archie Carr Archie Carr
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		It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had to learn.
	
	  Cynthia Weil Cynthia Weil