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• Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.

  Clara Mamet

  Timing, Brooks, Dialogue

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• What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Nature, Stars

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.59

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• You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Men, Light

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• I love to go and mingle with the young
  In the gay festal room--when every heart
  Is beating faster than the merry tune,
  And their blue eyes are restless, and their lips
  Parted with eager joy, and their round cheeks
  Flush'd with the beautiful motion of the dance.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Beautiful, Eye, Heart

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1856). “The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis”, p.238

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• A great many people in Los Angeles are on special diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this appears to be a widely held belief that organically grown fruits and vegetables make the cocaine work faster.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Vegetables, People, Special

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.276, Vintage

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• I could eat a feeling faster than anybody, put a little hot sauce on it and wouldn't recognize it until it showed up on my behind three days later.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Feelings, Hot, Three

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• Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Running, Dog, Courage

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.549, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.

  Bill Gates

  Taken, Priorities, Lists

  Bill Gates' Speech at the University of Washington, archive.fortune.com. July 20, 1998.

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• Humor is just truth, only faster!

  Gilda Radner

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• Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backwards in time and exist in two places at once.

  Margaret Atwood

  Time, Moving, Light

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• Nothing wilts faster than a laurel rested upon.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Laurels, Inaction

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster,
  Nor long summer bide so late;
  And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster,
  For some things are ill to wait.

  Jean Ingelow

  Summer, Spring, Long

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.57

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• bad news travels faster than good.

  Catherine the Great

  Negativity, News, Bad News

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• The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.

  Barry Switzer

  Keys, Nfl, Guy

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• I'm definitely more talented than most of the guys I know. A lot of guys who just want to have sex will sit with the same woman and try all night. I'm able to look at a woman, have a five-minute conversation with her, and tell if it's a waste of time or not. I figure things out a lot faster.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Sex, Night, Guy

  "Ty Me Up, Ty Me Down". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 20, 2007.

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• Our approach is to think of companies not as businesses but as collections of people. We [Apple]want to qualitatively change the way people work. We don't just want to help them do word processing faster or add numbers faster. We want to change the way they can communicate with one another. We're seeing less paper flying around and more quality of communication.

  Steve Jobs

  Communication, Thinking, Apples

  Source: www.slate.com

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• A lot of people think that you easily get roles because you do music. I mean, you could knock on the door faster than anybody, but it doesn't necessarily get you in.

  Andre Benjamin

  Mean, Thinking, Doors

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• Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really difficult and take longer than you'd like (it may even be painful), but other times it can be really easy and happen much faster than you expected. But either way - it is important, and it feels so much better when it's done.

  Sarah Kay

  Important, Done, May

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• Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

  Hortense Calisher

  Time, Century, Ends

  Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday

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• When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do.

  Robert Adams

  Book, Down And, Calm

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• I don't know why the players make such a big fuss about sitting in the first class section of the plane. Does that mean they'll get there faster?

  Sparky Anderson

  Mean, Player, Class

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• [When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Heart, Men, Paris

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• My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths.

  Horace Bushnell

  Bible, Fire, Discovery

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• there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then you must be in some way, a bit backward and defective ... the important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization.

  Jacquetta Hawkes

  Technology, Thinking, Civilization

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• business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments. And what is it doing with this power? It is using free trade, the most powerful weapon at its disposal, to tighten its grip on the globe.

  Anita Roddick

  Powerful, Business, Government

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world”, Conari Pr

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