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• If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.

  Cameron Crowe

  Writing, Trying, Actors

  "Director Cameron Crowe Talks WE BOUGHT A ZOO, His Upcoming Documentary THE UNION, His Next Movie, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 21, 2011.

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• I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains.

  Jonathan Weeks

  Book, Character, Interesting

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• I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.

  Clive James

  Writing, People, Trying

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Ellen Rolfes, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.

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• We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from these. We have difficulty remembering such abstractions, but we can more easily remember a good story. Stories give life to past experience. Stories make the events in memory memorable to others and to ourselves. This is one of the reasons why people like to tell stories.

  Roger Schank

  Memories, Writing, Past

  Roger C. Schank (1995). “Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence”, p.10, Northwestern University Press

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• My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Memories, Lasts

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• To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.

  Jillian Medoff

  Philosophy, Political, Trying

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.

  Holt McCallany

  Opportunity, Hands, Tv Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.

  John Adams

  Sports, 4th Of July, Believe

  Letter to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776

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• Read my lips-NO NEW TAXES!

  George H. W. Bush

  Patriotic, Political, Lips

  1988 Accepting the Republican presidential nomination, 19 Aug.

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• But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.

  John Adams

  Education, Money, School

  John Adams (2016). “Papers of John Adams, Volume 18: December 1785 - January 1787”, p.218, Harvard University Press

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• I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

  Lee Grant

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• A good job is largely anonymous and forgotten (but still important). A personal job, on the other hand, is humanized. It brings us closer together. It might not be remarkable, but it stands out as memorable because (however briefly) the recipient of the work was touched by someone else. Often, remarkable work is personal too, but personal might just be enough for today.

  Seth

  Jobs, Hands, Important

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• Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Graduation, Dream, Action

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• I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.

  James Beard

  Simple, Eggs, Meals

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• If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

  Randy Jackson

  Song, Years, Looks

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• My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, the independence of the United States. A remarkable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind.

  John Adams

  Race, Years, Best Wishes

  "A Selection of Eulogies Pronounced in the Several States". Book by D.F. Robinson and Company, 1826.

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• The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.

  Beverly Sills

  Children, Ease, Diagnosis

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• Dr. Lourie's determined and compassionate advocacy led to new and improved services for thousands of children and families across the nation... the Lourie Center has rededicated itself institutionally to continuing his important work.

  C. Everett Koop

  Children, Important, Drs

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• The Lourie Center provides much-needed services for our youngest and most vulnerable children and their families in our region. Their work and groundbreaking research help our community as well as the nation.

  Doug Duncan

  Children, Community, Research

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• RADIO IS DEAD. The once-bright star that was public broadcasting has been destroyed by greed and corproate muscle to the point that even the music that is completely repugnant is positioned to be popular.

  Corey Taylor

  Stars, Greed, Radio

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• Whether it's the Axis of Evil, or the evils of eating meat, it is a concept that has all but lost the impact it once had, because everyone thinks different things in this world are evil. PETA thinks what we do to animals is evil, but I think their overzealous approach is evil. Evil, in more ways than one, is comparable to the truth: definitions vary from one individual to the next.

  Corey Taylor

  Animal, Thinking, Impact

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• From depression to ceiling fans, I've been through it all. I've taken almost every step that life has to offer and invariably I've found several different endings to my Choose Your Own Adventure stories. I've lived, loved, sacrificed and scraped for this existence, this paltry little city state I call my time so far. And by God, I wouldn't change a single frame of this movie.

  Corey Taylor

  Taken, Adventure, Cities

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• Before tomorrow, make a list of your traits. Make YOUR list - who you are and why. Then ask yourself this question: where did it come from? Are you the way you are because it is what you want... or what they want? Are you a product of your imagination or someone else's? Think about it.

  Corey Taylor

  Thinking, Imagination, Want

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• I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental rights over to my grandmother, who I lived with while I went to school. I was clean and finally starting to figure myself out. I can only say that now without laughing. I was still very out of my own place, and I didn't even know what that place was. All I knew was that I could write music, that I had no idea what that could mean and that I was still surrounded by people I couldn't relate to. I hadn't found my tribe yet.

  Corey Taylor

  Mother, Giving Up, Writing

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• On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich, a literary giant and an unprecedented visionary. For 50 years he entertained, challenged and amazed not only my generation, but also ones before mine and well after. He was sensational, brilliant, iconic and unique - the quintessential individual. He was my lifelong hero. His name was George Carlin.

  Corey Taylor

  Hero, Unique, June

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