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There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that's the hardest part - convincing everybody you're a genius.

Fredric Brown

Writing, Wish, Suspense

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I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms.

Peter Greenaway

Ivory Tower, Sound, Peculiar

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They're both a bit cavalier about the whole thing at first; more than anything, they seem to think that it's going to be a lot of fun. Which it is, of course, but mostly in the way a plane crash is fun to reminisce about after you survive it.

Josh Gates

Fun, Thinking, Reminiscing

Josh Gates (2011). “Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t. It’s important to stay the course. I don’t think I would have lasted this long if I’d listened to anyone. You have to listen somewhat and then put that to the side and know that what you do matters.

Annie Leibovitz

Thinking, Long, Important

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Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort have created a biblically sound course that will not only motivate Christians; it will equip them to fulfill the Great Commission.

Josh McDowell

Christian, Rays, Sound

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Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.

Harvey Fierstein

People, Way, Honestly

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A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

Nelson Mandela

Distance, Winning, People

FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Aug 04, 2013

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Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness - I want to suggest to you that personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice - that's more than a barren life. It's a trivial one.

Toni Morrison

Commitment, Justice, Not Good Enough

FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Aug 23, 2011

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Expressing thankfulness in advance is the way of all Masters. So do not wait for a thing to happen and then give thanks. Give thanks before it happens, and watch energies swirl! To thank God before something occurs is an act of extraordinary faith. And that, of course, is where the power comes from.

Neale Donald Walsch

Giving, Waiting, Thank God

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Well, you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do. Even if you're playing some psychotic person, which of course I'm not, some part of you is in that character and it's hopefully believable. I always come back to the fact that my own instinct is better than something I build in my mind.

Scarlett Johansson

Character, Mind, Pieces

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

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There should be a course in the first grade on love.

Andy Warhol

Firsts, Should, Grades

"The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".

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I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

Peter De Vries

Inspirational, Country, Teenager

Peter De Vries (1967). “The vale of laughter”

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If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jobs, World, Sticks

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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.

Ozwald Boateng

Jobs, Views, Law

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I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

Count Basie

Real, Play, Tunes

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Acting is one of the professions I most respect because if you tried something and you can't do it and you thought at one time in your life - and of course, I did at one time of my life want it - and you realize that you can't do it that you can't just switch your personality that way, then you are in awe of people who can.

Sherry Lansing

People, Personality, Acting

Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.

W. Clement Stone

Choices, Want, Today

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It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.

William Matthews

Quality, Attention, Dull

William Matthews (1989). “Curiosities”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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Today, Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed when he learned that a firehouse isn't a house where you get to fire people.

Jimmy Fallon

New York, Fire, Cities

"This Week" with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. May 6, 2012.

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President Obama's re-election campaign said that this year they'll knock on 150 percent more doors than they did in 2008. Well, of course they will. They have to. There's so many foreclosures it's tough to tell where people live.

Jay Leno

Doors, Years, People

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Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

Stanley Wolpert

Creating, Jinnah, Three

"Jinnah of Pakistan". Book by Stanley Wolpert, 1984.

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I like setting up problems for the viewer, like how do you visually deal with a ring when what’s usually in the center of a painting is very important? It's like the main course isn't there and you're having to deal with everything around what would normally be the main course.

Robert Mangold

Important, Painting, Problem

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Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!

Mary Wesley

Fun, Risk, Doe

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What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant, and true. The real tragedy in the whirlwinds of life comes only when we allow them to blow us off our true course.

David S. Baxter

Real, Adversity, Blow

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I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all.

Nora Ephron

Writing, Thinking, Paper

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