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• Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house.

  Sharon Horgan

  Royal Wedding, Boxing, House

  "I've devised a game for bland celebrity interviews: swap one star's questions with another's answers" by Sharon Horgan, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2008.

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• If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee.

  Tony Hale

  Cake, Needs, Lows

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• Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.

  Felicity Jones

  Makeup, Mascara, Eyeliner

  "Felicity Jones Analyzes Her ‘Like Crazy’ Outfit", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2012.

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• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  Iris Johansen

  Real, Writing, Research

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• I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

  Rachel Kushner

  Character, People, Childhood

  "I Am a Camera: An Interview with Rachel Kushner" by Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. June 11, 2013.

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• I take time with each person and try to remember them, especially if they're a repeater from another event. I know a lot of authors just sign a book and keep their heads down, but I'm not like that.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Book, Trying, Remember

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• Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We average about 220km/h including pit stops and cover nearly 5000km.

  Tom Kristensen

  Winning, Race, Average

  "Off the clock: Tom Kristensen interview". Interview with Eric Thompson, www.nzherald.co.nz. July 23, 2011.

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• By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.

  Caroline Knapp

  Self, Order, Narrators

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• The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.

  Kelly Miller

  Russia, Collapse, Great Events

  Kelly Miller (1919). “History of the World War for Human Rights”

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• Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful!

  Jennifer Young

  Recovery, Loss, Yesterday

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• The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.

  Hoda Kotb

  Years, Decision, Shapes

  Hoda Kotb, Jane Lorenzini (2014). “Ten Years Later: Six People Who Faced Adversity and Transformed Their Lives”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

  Michael Kinsley

  Thinking, People, Information

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• It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

  Kevin McCloud

  Cake, Satisfied, Remembered

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• On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Believe, Two, Stories

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• Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

  Mark McKinnon

  Suicide, Marine, Hostage Crisis

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• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  Natalia Makarova

  Important Events, Chance, Life Happens

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• Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Jobs, Real, Passion

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• A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses. The myth in the hands of a genius give us a clear picture of the inner import of life itself.

  Tom Harpur

  Reality, Hands, Giving

  Tom Harpur (2005). “The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity?”, p.17, Allen & Unwin

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• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  Barbara Olson

  Presidential, Special, Attention

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• My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Thinking, Challenges, Want

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• When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.

  Trevor Nunn

  War, Historical, Musical

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• If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.

  Charles W. Pickering

  America, People, House

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• It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Enemy, Rewards, Happens

  "The Manipulator" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2004.

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• What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.

  John Redwood

  Credit, Cash, Regulation

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• I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

  Paula Radcliffe

  New York, Years, Racing

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