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• If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.

  PJ Harvey

  Fall, Hard Work, Writing

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• I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,' I happily discovered I was wrong. There is something familiar about my old vinyl. Call it nostalgia, but I don't care for the 'purity' of CDs. They have no personality! The crackle and pop of the stylus on a record player as you wait for the music to begin creates an anticipation that CDs simply can't provide.

  Anthony Pilla

  Music, Reading, Player

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• The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world. These poems eddy and pool in unpredictable and often surprising ways, much as the mind moves in its twilight state between waking and sleep. The fluidity of their cadence and the luminosity of their imagery carry the reader to the wellspring of poetry itself, that deep delight of which Robert Penn Warren spoke, whose source is, in Soniat's words, 'beauty on its way to being mystery.'

  Kathryn Stripling Byer

  Girl, Moving, Twilight

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• The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes, and that the president may, as has been done, delegate this authority to the attorney general. It's important to understand, senators, that the rules and the methodology for criminal searches are inconsistent with the collection of foreign intelligence and would unduly frustrate the president in carrying out his foreign intelligence responsibilities.

  Jamie Gorelick

  Believe, Responsibility, Law

  Jamie Gorelick's statement on wireless physical searches before the US House of Representatives permanent Select Committee on intelligence, thinkprogress.org. December 20, 2005.

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• A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.

  Alain de Benoist

  Taken, Errors, Quality

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• Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.

  Robin Wasserman

  Memories, Data, Imagination

  Robin Wasserman (2011). “Shattered”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• The true church is not an organization controlled by the rules of men but a holy collection of living stones with Jesus Christ as the Cornerstone.

  Brother Yun

  Jesus, Men, Organization

  Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2009). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.42, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted, thoughtful and mind-bending tales I know I’m in for a treat. This collection is sci-fi at its intelligent best.

  David Anthony Durham

  Writing, Thoughtful, Intelligent

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• I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias.

  Stephen Colbert

  Reality, Men, Thinking

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• I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Hair, Naked, Hats

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have equal parts film and digital cameras in my collection. I think that there are ways to Photoshop photos so that they look like you shot them on film, but is that as rewarding? It just depends on the person.

  Dianna Agron

  Thinking, Cameras, Looks

  "Dianna Agron Interview I AM NUMBER FOUR; Plus an Update on the GLEE Super Bowl Episode". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 3, 2011.

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• There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.

  Sarah Vowell

  Two, People, Records

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Reading, Expression, Stuff

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.252, Hachette UK

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• A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.

  Alton Brown

  Water, Foam, Add

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• The Replacements are the foundation for a lot of what came after in alternative and college rock. Let It Be is their best record and has the most diverse collection of songs. Some pop stuff, some heavy stuff, and some real moments of beauty like 'Sixteen Blue' and 'Androgynous.' It's a record I always go back to.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Real, College

  "The Hold Steady's 10 Rock Albums Every Man Should Own" by Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. March 25, 2014.

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• Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

  Michael Dirda

  Order, Two, Library

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• If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is watching Murakami come at his obsessions from so many different angles. There's a panoply of strangeness between these covers (.....) This collection shows Murakami at his dynamic, organic best. As a chronicler of contemporary alienation, a writer for the Radiohead age, he shows how taut and thin our routines have become, how ill-equipped we are to contend with the forces that threaten to disrupt us.

  Antoine Wilson

  Sleep, Age, Different

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• In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron, cicada, spider, catalpa tree, mockingbird, snail, cormorant, and others. These pitch-perfect poems are written with a delicate, meticulous attention to craft and music. Like the joy she takes in her subjects, this collection is a joy to read.

  Elizabeth Spires

  Summer, White, Perfect

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• The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling illustrations, and in that regard, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better example than IN MINT CONDITION: 2013. In reading it, I have discovered writers and artists previously unknown to me who are now very high on my radar, and they should be just as high on yours.

  Kealan Patrick Burke

  Reading, Artist, Illustration

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• You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive.

  Mark Lawrence

  Frozen, Alive, Moments

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• In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing noised about for ages, but with a lot more detail and authenticity. The stories may not be quite as sordid as my own imagination had conjured up—although a few of them are—because there’s no denying that this field is full of mostly nice people!—but it’s all fun and a great read for anyone interested in both children’s books and the collection of people who make them.

  Paul O. Zelinsky

  Children, Fun, Nice

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• Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

  Hedi Slimane

  Life, Music, Fashion

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• Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

  Anna Sui

  Book, Editing, Creating

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• Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

  Anna Sui

  Giving Up, Interesting, Textiles

  "Fashion Designer Anna Sui'sTalkAsia Interview". Interview with Lorraine Hahn, edition.cnn.com. July 31, 2004.

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• I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.

  Leonard Lauder

  Building, Builder

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