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• I'm on the very blackest part of the black list.

  Alexei Navalny

  Black

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• Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.

  David Neeleman

  Safety, Values

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• But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Book, Want, Scripts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

  Camilla Lackberg

  New York, Thinking, Would Be

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• We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Goes On, Lawyer, Burned

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• I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Sleep, Two

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• I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!

  Brad Paisley

  Fun, Care, Stuff

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

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• No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Suicide, Children, Taken

  "Prospects for Women in Writing" (speech), Portland, Me., Sept. 1986

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• Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed by the will of the writer into grace or redemption, a prophetic wail, a screed for justice, an elegy of sadness or sorrow. ... There is always a tension between experience and the thing that finally carries it forward, bears its weight, holds it in. Without that tension, one might as well write a shopping list.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Song, Pain, Writing

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• Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.

  Edna Ferber

  Wine, Men, Europe

  Edna Ferber (2015). “Gigolo”, p.58, Booklassic

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• If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback list.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Winning, Years, Nfl

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• To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but is it useful? ... The recent prevalence of these hot histories on publishers' lists raises the question: Should - or perhaps can - history be written while it is still smoking?

  Barbara Tuchman

  History, Smoking, Events

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.25, Random House

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• the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.

  Susan Faludi

  Feminism, Problem, Laundry

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Motivation, Book, Writing

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• Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Fashion, Cutting, Clothes

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• The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

  Seth Godin

  Long, Secret, Doing Your Best

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• Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

  Kate Greenaway

  Writing, Long, Desire

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• Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

  Lois Lowry

  Way, Sometimes, Reason

  Lois Lowry (1979). “Anastasia Krupnik”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Leadership, Moving, Difficult Situations

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• The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Spiritual, Believe, Book

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This is not because I haven't experienced any of them but because whenever I think about using the words I don't really know what anyone means by them. I'd find it easier to sit down and write a book about each (coming, obviously, to no conclusion) than to use them casually in speech or writing.

  Jenny Diski

  Book, Writing, Mean

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• A comprehensive list of factors brings predictive stability and predictive stability and predictive power.

  Robert Haugen

  Stability, Comprehensive, Factors

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book byRobert Haugen, Chapter 5, Predicting Future Stock Returns with the Expected-Return Factor Model, p. 56, 1999.

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• We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Unintelligent Agent". Salon.com, January 17, 1997.

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• [On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.

  Bernice Rubens

  Book, Judging, Laundry

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• A balanced guest list of mixed elements is to a successful party what the seasoning is to a culinary triumph.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Party, Successful, Triumph

  Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books

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