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• I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas. Whoever chooses to latch onto it, great; whoever doesn't, that's fine, too. The reaction always pales in comparison to the weight of the act of production.

  M. Ward

  Ideas, Records, Weight

  "'Time' Is Right for Songwriter Ward" by Jill Menze, www.reuters.com. January 10, 2009.

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• I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Rain, Thinking, Ideas

  Rodman Philbrick (2013). “The Last Book in the Universe”, p.146, Scholastic Inc.

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• Don't mess with Mister Inbetween.

  Johnny Mercer

  Mess

  "Accentuate the Positive" (song) (1944)

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• You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positiveE-lim-i-nate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmative.Don't mess with mister inbetween.

  Johnny Mercer

  Cents, Mess, Affirmative

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• Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Faith, Men

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.

  Connie Stevens

  People, Important

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• You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

  Ann M. Martin

  Inspirational, Education, Negative

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• Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a 'wish' I wish that such-and-such would take place rather, it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Hope, Anchors

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• The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.

  Freya Stark

  Travel, Behind You, Beckoning

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• While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.

  Patience Strong

  Spring, Joy, Taste

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. "Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too?" Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian stepped forward and examined the lock. "Natalie's diary has better security than this." He produced a credit card and slipped it between the latch and the jamb. There was a click, and the door swung wide.

  Gordon Korman

  Twilight, Thinking, Doors

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• Trends come and go, and if you try to latch onto a trend it will likely be passé by the time you have completed your manuscript.

  Andrew McAleer

  Trying, Trends, Comes And Goes

  Andrew McAleer (2008). “101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists: Insider Secrets from Top Writers”, p.66, Adams Media

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• As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.

  Justin Timberlake

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  Source: movieweb.com

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• The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God has given grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, to force the way; But better had they ne'er been born That read to doubt or read to scorn.

  Walter Scott

  Fear, Lying, Book

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• A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

  James M. Barrie

  Sarcastic, Halloween, Night

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.201, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor defects so they'd start to bother me and allow me to snuff the dream till it tapered off and lost its luster and, with its luster gone, remind me once again, as ever again, that happiness is the one thing that in our lives others cannot bring.

  André Aciman

  Breakup, Dream, Party

  André Aciman (2010). “Eight White Nights: A Novel”, p.5, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• This, my children," Alistair said proudly, "was barbecue pork." Dan rapped his fingers against the latch. "Been out in the sun for a long time.

  Peter Lerangis

  Children, Long, Pork

  Peter Lerangis (2011). “The 39 Clues #3: The Sword Thief”, p.100, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.

  Nathan Fillion

  Cute, Character, Careers

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• Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in.

  Joss Whedon

  Real, Writing, Tvs

  "Joss Whedon at SXSW: ‘You have to become your own network head.’" by Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse.

  J. G. Ballard

  Technology, Men, Keys

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• When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.

  Keith Ablow

  Simple, People, Buttons

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• All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

  Neal Stephenson

  Cells, People, Brain

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.201, Spectra

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• But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

  Jack Kerouac

  Expression, Worry, Soul

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong or sometimes completely backward. I try to go back and correct it, but things get even more complicated and confused, so that I don’t even remember what I started to say in the first place. Like I was split into two or something, one half chasing the other. And there’s this big pillar in the middle and they go chasing each other around and around it. The other me always latches onto the right word and this me absolutely never catches up

  Haruki Murakami

  Confused, Talking, Two

  Haruki Murakami (1989). “Norwegian Wood”

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• As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

  Jeff Bridges

  Romantic, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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