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• If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.

  Josh Lieb

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I think for every artist it's important to always keep this amount of doubt until the very last day of shooting.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Artist, Thinking, Doubt

  Source: collider.com

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• I can walk into a gun store in my town and buy military-grade weapons. You'd be shocked by the amount of firepower you can buy - 50 caliber sniper rifles and the same shotguns the Marines carry in Iraq or Afghanistan. It doesn't matter whether I know how to use these things - I can just walk into a store and buy them.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Military, Marine, Gun

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• I'm always repeating myself. You never just do a scene once, you do it an insane amount of times.

  Michiel Huisman

  Insane, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Fun, Space, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way.

  Courtney Love

  Cat, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• The whole secret to winning and losing in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible when you're not right.

  William O'Neil

  Winning, Secret, Losing

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• My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.

  Jessica Valenti

  Mother, Teenager, Loss

  "My Big Feminist Wedding". www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.

  E. W. Howe

  Gambling, Games

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• Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Book, Reading, Indulge In

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• The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, Chiaroscuro, Harbors

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

  William Kempe

  Order, People, Collaboration

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• It is hard to convince people of this, but oatmeal truly is miraculous. It gives you an amazing amount of energy, like cocaine.

  Kelly Williams Brown

  Oatmeal, People, Giving

  Kelly Williams Brown (2013). “Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as pleasant as possible afterwards. What is necessary? That was the unspoken but implied, and unavoidable question everywhere in India.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Journey, Violence, India

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• The increase in the amount of heat in the oceans amounts to 17 x 10^22 Joules over the last 30 years. That is so much energy it is equivalent to exploding a Hiroshima bomb every second in the ocean for thirty years.

  Stefan Rahmstorf

  Ocean, Years, Lasts

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• The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing.

  Jamie Dimon

  Giving, World, United States

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• I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

  David Pogue

  Ridiculous, Refining

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• Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.

  James A. Garfield

  Men, Issues, Emergencies

  "The Diary of James A. Garfield: 1875-1877". Book by James Abram Garfield, 1983.

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• The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.

  George Will

  Opportunity, Government, Way

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Clever, Research, Disease

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.

  Karl Marx

  Greatness, Relative Value, Substance

  Karl Marx (1913). “Value, Price and Profit”

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• The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

  Karl Marx

  Ends, Motive, Aim

  Karl Marx (2012). “Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.178, Regnery Publishing

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• A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Water, Waiting

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.14, Melville House

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• I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .

  Ray Bradbury

  Fighting, Killers, Martian Chronicles

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Country, Mean, Russia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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