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• As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moving, Grief, Dark

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.288, Faber & Faber

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• Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Cities, Oil, People

  Rita Mae Brown (2014). “Rubyfruit Jungle”, p.200, Bantam

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• Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Ideas, Magic, Campaigns

  "One year out: Obama's fall". Column, www.jewishworldreview.com. January 15, 2010.

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• We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.

  Ray Manzarek

  Airplane, Grace, Hug

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• Muhammad Ali could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

  Larry Holmes

  Moving, Hands, Missing

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• The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Appreciation, Gratitude

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• Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers hijacked the country with 'new economy' mumbo-jumbo based on computer models and hype most Americans understood this.

  Richard Karn

  Country, Real, Hype

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• History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system.

  Tim Wu

  Technology, Typical, Hobbies

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I love these kind of movies as a kind of cinema-going geek myself. Those characters, you want to be like those characters when you go to the movies. You know, when you see a movie with a guy who's really cool and the killing's slick and easy. I don't know. There's something intoxicating about it.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Character, Guy, Cinema

  Source: collider.com

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• In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.

  Michel Gondry

  Serious

  "‘Green Hornet’ Director Michel Gondry Talks Hardships In Hollywood". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. January 19, 2011.

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• When someone like Steven Soderbergh asks you to do a film you know you're in good hands. You know it's going to be slick, and it's going to be intelligent, and it's going to have a kind of style to it, and I would probably have done anything to be really honest.

  Jude Law

  Intelligent, Hands, Style

  "Jude Law Talks SIDE EFFECTS, GATTACA, EXISTENZ, A.I., SHERLOCK HOLMES 3, His Favorite Comic Books, Future Projects, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2013.

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• How about that oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. And you know, the oil slick is going everywhere. So the next time somebody lands on the Hudson, it won't be that big a deal.

  David Letterman

  Land, Oil, Mexico

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• Before I think we was emcees, we was more or less narrators too. Because if you look at the early '80s hip hop, it was so much creativity goin' on with artists like then, like Slick Rick, then you had Rakim, and you had these different kind of artists back then. And we was a marble cake of all these artists. So I didn't have a problem with writin' stories because I felt like that was somethin' I loved to do. Even to this day, I really consider myself an entertainer-slash-narrator. I like to talk about stuff that goes on.

  Raekwon

  Creativity, Thinking, Artist

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Asexual, aseasonal, rectangular, slick palette of blacks, touches of pure grays and intense dark blues.

  Rad Hourani

  Dark, Intense, Palette

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• I can relate to someone whose life is falling apart, and they are doing the best to get by, using humor to survive. Backstrom really wears his heart on his sleeve and his life is unraveling... I would much rather hang out with that person than a slick procedural detective who has all the answers... it's human, it's frail, it's interesting.

  Rainn Wilson

  Life, Fall, Heart

  "Rainn Wilson will make you cringe with ‘Backstrom’" by Leora Arnowitz, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2015.

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• Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Dog, Blood

  Don Marquis (1922). “The Revolt of the Oyster”

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• I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

  Mickey Spillane

  Names, House, Magazines

  Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.

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• Every Republican has a one-liner on ObamaCare. I've got detailed plans on energy independence, on school choice, on health care, on foreign policy. They all hire somebody to write their plans. They can borrow mine. I've actually got ideas. Enough with the slick talkers. Let's elect somebody that's done something.

  Bobby Jindal

  School, Writing, Ideas

  "Bobby Jindal opens up about his 2016 presidential run on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 3, 2015.

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• I happen to know everything there is to know about maple syrup! I love maple syrup. I love maple syrup on pancakes. I love it on pizza. And I take maple syrup and put a little bit in my hair when I've had a rough week. What do you think holds it up, slick?

  Vince Vaughn

  Thinking, Hair, Syrup

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• For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

  John Berger

  Artist, Discovery, Drawing

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.30, Vintage

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• Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets, who prefer daffodils and no wonder. So let's just say that Ankh-Morpork is as full of life as an old cheese on a hot day, as loud as a curse in a cathedral, as bright as an oil slick, as colourful as a bruise and as full of activity, industry, bustle and sheer exuberant busyness as a dead dog on a termite mound.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Cities, Oil

  "Mort". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1987.

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• His cheeks were slick with tears that spilled over his diamond eyes, a ceaseless flow he neither noticed nor appeared to care about. And she had a feeling it was going to be a while before the leaking stopped-an inner artery had been nicked and this was the blood of his heart, spilling out of him, covering him.

  J.R. Ward

  Heart, Eye, Blood

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.293, Penguin

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• People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look - like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

  Vanna Bonta

  People, Arrogance, Looks

  "Degrees: Thought Capsules (Poems) and Micro Tales on Life, Death, Man, Woman, & Art". Book by Vanna Bonta, September 1, 1989.

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• I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

  Yelawolf

  Art, Play, Understanding

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• When did they start coming after you?” “Was it—was it after the oil- slick Hummer crash?” the Gasman asked Iggy tentatively. My eyes widened. Oil-slick Hummer crash? Iggy rubbed his chin, thinking. “Or maybe it was more---after the bomb,” the Gasman said in a low voice, looking down. “I think it was the bomb,” Iggy agreed. “That definitely seemed to tick them off.” “Bomb?” I asked incredulously.

  James Patterson

  Eye, Thinking, Voice

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