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• Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty, of most that are young and of many old, are wasted. Here diseases, vicious habits, bastards and legislators are frequently spawned.

  John Adams

  Country, Taverns, Disease

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• Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

  Jack London

  Writing, Sweat, Stories

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.6, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!

  Scott Adams

  Games, Ideas, Design

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• When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen.

  Will McDonough

  Two, Boston, Years

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• I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

  John Gould

  Children, Food, Thinking

  John Gould (2015). “The House That Jacob Built”, p.124, Down East Books

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• We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

  James Thurber

  Laughter, War, Home

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves. It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.

  Cato the Younger

  Vegetables, Wish, Half

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• I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Ideas, Sunflower, Soup

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• If people see how we're all interconnected and connected with Nature, we wouldn't have an environmental crisis, we wouldn't have two dozen wars all over the world.

  Stanley Krippner

  War, Two, People

  Source: cynthiasuelarson.wordpress.com

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• In animation, you may be working with 20 writers, and everybody has to write the same thing. You can't have episodes that don't feel like they belong. In comics, you're gonna write a whole run, which means it's your style that's coming through. But when you're working on a show that's collaborated with a dozen other writers, you have to have a style that blends the show together. So you can't write it the way you normally would, because your script will stand out from all the others.

  Marv Wolfman

  Running, Mean, Writing

  Source: www.grouchoreviews.com

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• A man walked into a shop and asked, "How much are your eggs?" He said "£1.40 a dozen". He then asked: "How much are your cracked ones?" He said: "35p". He said: "Crack us four dozen."

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cities, Working Together, Twenties

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Relatively, there are many scientists who believe in God. And in Oxford, where I am the Professor, there are more professors like me, who believe in God, than you think. There are not dozens of them, but they are there, and in Cambridge too, and elsewhere. We are not in a tiny minority.

  John Lennox

  Believe, Thinking, Oxford

  Source: www.christiantelegraph.com

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• I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality of my writing. But if I were writing for thousands of people, then I would write what might please them. And as I know nothing about them, and maybe I'd have a rather low opinion of them, I don't think that would do any good to my work.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

  Grant Morrison

  Writing, Needs, Sculpture

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.

  Mickey Rourke

  Play, Broadway, Stuff

  Interview with Christopher Walken, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2009.

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• As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

  Ridley Pearson

  Thinking, Boys, Years

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• My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.

  Ian Rankin

  Dream, Giving Up, Book

  "Ian Rankin, author - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

  Martha Reeves

  Light, Average, Mad

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• I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.

  Ron Rash

  Decision, Stories, Conscious

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• I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.

  Dominic West

  Mother, Dad, Thinking

  "Down to The Wire with Dominic West". Intervie with Sara Bliss, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2006.

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• You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

  Robin Yount

  Sports, Player, Years

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• Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it.

  Oren Arnold

  Men, Ideas, Faces

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• You knew you were an Arab if your ride form the airport was two dozen people.

  Mohja Kahf

  Airports, Two, People

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• All the PHP code I've seen in that experience has been messy, unmaintainable crap. Spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML, replicated in slightly-varying form in dozens of places.

  Tim Bray

  Html, Spaghetti, Form

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