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• Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Character, Two

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

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• But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she just recited about Israel and Gaza. During her Senate campaign, for instance, she issued wildly militaristic – and in some cases clearly false – statements about Iran and its nuclear program that would have been comfortable on the pages of The Weekly Standard.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Israel, Iran, Nuclear

  "Elizabeth Warren Finally Speaks on Israel/Gaza, Sounds Like Netanyahu". readersupportednews.org. August 28, 2014.

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• Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it does remove the mythic power of the feminine and masculine principles. So I prefer it in its original form, even if you have to wade through Mallory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur' - people smashing people for pages and pages! It still has the resonances of myth about it, which makes it work for me. I don't want to know if Mordred led an unhappy childhood or not.

  Michael Moorcock

  Character, Thinking, Unhappy Childhood

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

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• A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.

  Lorrie Moore

  Dark, Pages Turning, Scary

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• I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me, in a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business.

  Julia Cameron

  Jobs, Believe, Moving

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.25, Penguin

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• To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

  Pablo Picasso

  Ideas, Drawing, Blank

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• As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page now speak to us! This is a form of animism that we take for granted, but it is animism nonetheless - as mysterious as a talking stone.

  David Abram

  Animal, Talking, Rivers

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• Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Nature, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.178, Penguin

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• In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.

  Corbin Bernsen

  Night, Eight, Seven

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

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• I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down and facing down the blank page and doing it, and I've always been ok at that.

  Martin McDonagh

  Block, Thinking, Sitting Down

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• I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Good Night, Dawn, Ifs

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.275, Pan Macmillan

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• Write a page a day. It will add up.

  Herman Wouk

  Writing, Add

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• Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But to take my writing to a deeper level, I’ve found that a better practice is to simply write what frightens you, haunts you, even. I now keep a sign on the bulletin board in my office that reads: 'Write What Scares You.' I’ve learned that tapping into the hard stuff — whether it’s the fear of loss or a boogeyman lurking in childhood memories — is what ultimately gives a story the power to leap off the page and grab you by the collar.

  Sarah Jio

  Memories, Writing, Loss

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• Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing a seamless mix of personal anecdotes, hard evidence and all-too-often-underrated subjective admonitions, Bogle challenges each of us to aspire to become better members of our families, our professions and our communities.  Rarely do so few pages provoke so much thought.  Read this book.

  David F. Swensen

  Life Lesson, Book, Thought Provoking

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• The Tiger's Curse Series has everything my heart could desire in a fantasy: exotic locations, two dashing princes, good vs. evil, the promise of danger and adventure lurking around every corner—and did I mention two dashing princes? Warning: these books may cause you to forget anything else exists until you've turned the last enthralling page. And then you'll want to start all over again!

  Bree Despain

  Book, Heart, Adventure

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• I have a giant baking book, so I close my eyes and pick a random page. Whatever it is, I try to bake it!

  Nina Dobrev

  Book, Eye, Trying

  "Exclusive Interview With Nina Dobrev!". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. January 23, 2012.

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• See... Relationships are hard, man. For order, for any relationship to work, both people have to be on the same page, both people have to have the same focus, and we all know what that page is. We all know what that focus is. In order for the relationship to work both people have to have the same focus, and what's that focus? That focus is all about HER! It's all about her!

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Men

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". TV Special, April 17, 2004.

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• A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.

  Nick Cannon

  Girl, Spiritual, Silly

  "Nick Cannon" by Corrie Pikul, www.elle.com. September 9, 2009.

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• I don't want to just be an athlete. I kind of obsess on that sometimes. I don't want my son to be reading, oh, 'disappointment, just a scorer, selfish, didn't win enough, never quite the best' -- whatever. I want to be bigger than that. I want to shape my own destiny instead of just having him read about whatever on the back page.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Disappointment, Selfish, Reading

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• I'm addicted to the Internet. I admit it. It has transformed the way I work as a senator, communicate with my children, and keep tabs on news and cultural developments.... The Internet is a more direct communications link between legislators and their constituents....I constantly work at fusing my Senate work into my office home page to make it as useful, timely, and user-friendly as possible for Vermonters and others who may visit.....I look at my Web site, as my 24-hour virtual office, where visitors can send me an e-mail or search for the information they need anytime, day or night.

  Patrick Leahy

  Children, Communication, Home

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• I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Live Life, Littles, Comic Book

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• In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure your editor or publisher can always reach you. Do what's asked of you if your conscience can bear it. But know that, five years from now, as fans or prospective employers are looking over your published pages, no one will care that this story sucks because the publisher moved the deadline up or because the editor made you work an android cow into the story. All they will care about is what they see in front of them, and they will hold you responsible for it, no one else.

  Mark Waid

  Running, Years, Editors

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• Most of us have collections of sayings we live by. . . . Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Knowing, Mind, Live By

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• White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

  Stephen Sondheim

  White, Canvas, Possibility

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• A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.

  Burton Malkiel

  Experts, Monkeys, Portfolios

  Burton G. Malkiel (2007). “A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing”, p.24, W. W. Norton & Company

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