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• Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

  Boman Irani

  Ruins, Problem

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• I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.

  Charles de Lint

  Real, Writing, Character

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• All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy.

  Joseph Sugarman

  Firsts, Elements, Copies

  Joseph Sugarman (2012). “The Adweek Copywriting Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

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• Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

  Amy Neftzger

  Live Life, Tears, Alive

  Amy Neftzger (2013). “The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One”, p.169, Field of Gold Publishing, Inc.

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• It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.

  John Owen

  Evil, Threatening, Holy

  John Owen (1826). “The Works of John Owen”, p.50

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• Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

  Tom Stoppard

  Junk, Journalism, Responsible

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Tom Stoppard: plays”

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• One thing about beginning writers is that they don't really always know their own strengths and weaknesses - you might think you're bad at characterization, but that might really be because of some issue you're having with another element, which is making it hard for you to express character in a convincing way.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Character, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Bedrock

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The one thing I've come to figure out is this equation where the more uncomfortable I am, the better I'm going to look. I'm like, "This one really hurts. I must look awesome!" The corsets are uncomfortable, but they are so flattering. No, my waist will never be that small.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Hurt, Looks, Figures

  Source: collider.com

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• Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Country, Dark, Russia

  "Gary Shteyngart's Rules for Vodka Drinking" by Ben Detrick, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.

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• When I'm killed, don't think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there's one thing that I know well, I'm damned if I'll be damned to Hell!

  Robert Graves

  Thinking, Zion, Woods

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

  Anton Chekhov

  Real, Daydreaming, Exquisite

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• One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it.

  Ken Gillespie

  Dog, Intellect, Painter

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• Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

  Ned Beauman

  Old Things, Chance, Increase

  "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.

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• That was the one thing about the rain that likened it to sorrow: You did your best to remain untouched, safe and dry, but if and when you failed, there came a point in which you started seeing the problem less in terms of drops than as an incessant gush, and thereby you decide you might as well get drenched.

  Elif Safak

  Rain, Ifs And, Sorrow

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• There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

  Brian Schmidt

  Tests, Able, Problem

  "Life, the universe and everything". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. June 18, 2012.

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• If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.

  Willow Smith

  Hard, Ifs

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

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• SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Commitment, Successful, Thinking

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Nov 17, 2014

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• If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.

  Karl Kraus

  Police, Stealing, Psychologist

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• There's only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living.

  Evan Esar

  Work

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• My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your mother for one day?" I then take it from there. Each book takes several months in the long process of writing, rewriting, writing, rewriting, and each has its own set of problems. The one thing I dislike about the writing process is the sometimes-loneliness of it all. Readers only get to see the glamour part of a bound book, not some of the agonizing moments one has while constructing it.

  Mary Rodgers

  Mother, Loneliness, Book

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• A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

  Tahir Shah

  Pain, Secret, Passionate

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.92, Lulu.com

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• Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.

  Jason Reitman

  Growing Up, Yoga, People

  "Jason Reitman: 'Growing up sucks, doesn't it?'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

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• As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Contentment, Way, Sometimes

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”, p.131

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• When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

  Frank Herbert

  Opposites, Creatures

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.109, Penguin

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