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• I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and an eight-week class for older adults), and I don't really know what my teaching style is yet.

  Mary J. Miller

  Summer, Children, Teaching

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everybody, doesn't matter who you are, escapes time. And for me, nothing is stranger than the thought that kids are just kids. Nobody is just anything. Whether you are eight or eighty, you've got your own unique take on how weird this world is.

  Peter Orner

  Kids, Unique, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you need somebody to dig up rocks eight hours a day underwater, call me.

  Leigh Newman

  Rocks, Underwater, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.

  Wendy Starland

  Fall, Persistence, Keys

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• If you follow a trend, by the time it is released it will sound like the same regurgitated music that the public has been hearing for the past eight months (at least.) I am not referring to genres or production that is considered to be timeless or "classic" sounding.

  Wendy Starland

  Past, Months, Sound

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• I made a life-size drawing of King Kong's head which was about eight feet-by- six feet. I tried to measure the head (scaled to other things in the movie I could estimate the size of) that was in the movie in the early '30s, and I liked that I was making something "life-size" that was kind of a fictional thing.

  Jason Polan

  Kings, Drawing, Feet

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a sort of world where nothing happens, where really nothing happens, so you become a different person after hearing eight minutes of exactly the same thing. Yes, I hear music all the time in which one idea is strung together to another idea, and I feel that such music is non-narrative.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Ideas, Together, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm wondering if the crew [from'The Hateful Eight'] had some sort of nickname for me. I am blanking at anything truly funny, so I'll just say, 'No Phone Quentin'.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Phones, Nicknames, Hateful

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• A thing when I was writing the movie 'The hateful eight' was, I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika. So I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Hate, Writing, Romance

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Since 1993, there have been eight or nine, depending how you count, abortion providers who have been murdered in this country. There have been arsons. There have been clinic bombings. There have been attacks offsite. Before this, the most recent abortion provider who was murdered was George Tiller in his church on a Sunday morning. So, this fits a pattern.

  David X. Cohen

  Country, Morning, Sunday

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• I didn't learn how to read and write until pretty late, and it was this very mysterious, incredible thing, like driving, that I didn't get to do. And then I started writing things down on little scraps of paper and I would hide them. I would write the year on them and then I would stuff them in a drawer somewhere. But I didn't start to really read until about eight. I'm dyslexic, so it took a long time.

  Lucy Corin

  Writing, Years, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What I find astounding is that we've had a president who is black in office for the past eight years, who gets most of his funding from the liberal elite in Hollywood. Yet, there are not very many roles for people of color. How can that be? And why is it just now being addressed?

  Stacey Dash

  Past, Color, Years

  "Stacey Dash on Oscars Outrage: 'It's Ludicrous ... Either We Want to Have Segregation or Integration'". "FOX & Friends", www.cnsnews.com. January 20, 2016.

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• I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.

  Jill Soloway

  Tattoo, Hands, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical.

  Raekwon

  Brother, Grew Up, Neighborhood

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I missed the whole thing [X-files series]. And I know it went for nine seasons, and I think I saw bits and pieces of it in maybe season seven or eight or something, and then was very busy doing whatever else, stand-up comedy and stuff throughout the world. Now I'm watching the show right from the beginning.

  Rhys Darby

  Thinking, Pieces, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was the last one of nine kids - eight girls and me last - and my sisters were going out. They were teenagers. And as they were getting ready, I would sit on the bathtub and watch them put on makeup and transform themselves - you know, putting on clothes and giggling about the boys they were going to meet and everything. So for me, that was an amazing thing - the fact of transforming themselves.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Girl, Teenager, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine how uncool it is to play the violin when you're eight and ten years old, but I told my Mom that I would quit every day until I went to high school and I met these other gentlemen who would become Yellowcard, and my friends, and I really fell in love with music and it wasn't just classical music, just submerged in the arts in the school I was in.

  Sean Mackin

  Mom, Art, Growing Up

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• The Replacements definitely changed my life, I think they're just amazing. The thing that blew me away [a band like that] is that you'll get into a band from hearing one interesting song and then you'll realise that you've got seven or eight albums to listen to afterwards and every single one of them is a great record. The Replacements definitely changed my life.

  Ryan Jarman

  Song, Thinking, Interesting

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• I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.

  Charles Ferguson

  Years, Nine, Film

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. November 28, 2011.

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• I began wanting to create a detective who really turned the tables on that image of women, to know that you could have a sex life and not be a bad person. You could have a sex life and still solve your own problems. It was eight years from when I started having the fantasy that I was going to create such a detective to when I actually sat down and came up with V. I. Warshawski. It was a long, slow journey to come to a writing voice and do that character.

  Sara Paretsky

  Sex, Writing, Character

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Few knew in 2000 that Bush was going to end up with neoconservatives all over the place. And once 9/11 happened, I think it's fair to say that eight or nine neocons have had an enormous influence. The whole solution to every problem was to go after Iraq. This had been a neoconservative mantra for ten years. There was no secret about it.

  Seymour Hersh

  Thinking, Years, Iraq

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• That lifestyle wears you down fast, so I started to take better care of myself. I exercise, sleep eight hours a night, take vitamins, eat organic foods, skip foods that aren't good for me, and I surround myself with amazing artists and friends.

  Beth Riesgraf

  Sleep, Exercise, Artist

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• I try to get seven to eight hours of sleep. Wash my hands a lot, take a few supplements, like omega-3 and vitamin D. When I feel a cold coming on, I pop some zinc. I do my best to eat a low-sodium, high-fiber diet. I drink mostly water or coconut water. I don't smoke, no drugs, and drink red wine occasionally.

  Andrea Navedo

  Sleep, Wine, Hands

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• 'm the second oldest of eight kids. I'd have to say, what inspires me is making sure my siblings have a good role model to look up to. Nowadays, influencers do anything to keep up with each other for attention, and it's not always something today's youth should mimic. I understand that with great influence comes great responsibility.

  Melanie Iglesias

  Sibling, Kids, Responsibility

  "Melanie Iglesias: The Practice of Happiness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When they [young people] believe they are the difference! That their voice matters and to use the incredible power each one of them has. I work with an amazing young man, Jaylen Arnold, who started a foundation and a movement to educate people about tolerance and to stop bullying when he was eight years old. He never ceases to inspire me.

  Dash Mihok

  Bullying, Believe, Men

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