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• Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

  H. G. Wells

  Blow, Ideas, People

  H. G. Wells (2005). “The Soul of a Bishop”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

  William Safire

  Successful, Causes, Fit

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• No, I don't read the papers. I just look at the pictures.

  Serena Williams

  Looks, Papers

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• Certification from one source or another seems to be the most important thing to people all over the world. A piece of paper from a school that says you're smart, a pat on the head from your parents that says you're good or some reinforcement from your peers that makes you think what you're doing is worthwhile. People are just waiting around to get certified.

  Frank Zappa

  Smart, School, Thinking

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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• We all believe what we read. I read how Tom Cruise and I were two big egos holding up shooting. I know that isn't true - but if I wasn't making a movie with him and I just picked up the paper, I'd believe it. That's interesting, isn't it?

  Dustin Hoffman

  Believe, Two, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A writer is obviously at his most natural and relaxed when he writes in the first person. Writing is a personal transaction between two people, conducted on paper, and the transaction will go well to the extent that it retains its humanity.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Two, People

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• You must find some way to elevate your act of writing into an entertainment. Usually this means giving the reader an enjoyable surprise. Any number of devices will do the job.... These seeming amusements in fact become your 'style.' When we say we like the style of certain writers, what we mean is that we like their personality as they express it on paper.

  William Zinsser

  Jobs, Writing, Mean

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• I don't sit around and read papers about myself. If I see myself on TV, if I don't like it, I change the channel.

  Kerry Wood

  Tvs, Papers, Ifs

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• My thing has always been, sit down with me for an hour and base your judgments off that. That's all I ask. Don't go by what you read in the paper or hear in the streets.

  Corey Dillon

  Judgment, Hours, Streets

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• Maybe if I was British, a semi-final would be incredible. I'd be on the front page of the paper.

  Maria Sharapova

  Would Be, Finals, Pages

  Press conference, www.wimbledon.com. July 9, 2015.

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• I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Writing, Character, Order

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• Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"

  Terry Pratchett

  Sound, Would Be, Lasts

  "Interesting Times (Discworld, Book 17)". Book by Terry Pratchett (p. 186), 1994.

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• New taxes are so unpopular that most 'social' handout schemes are originally enacted without enough increased taxation to pay for them. The result is chronic government deficits, paid for by the issuance of additional paper money.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Taxation, Pay

  Henry Hazlitt (1996). “The Conquest of Poverty”

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• The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.

  Yang Wanli

  Men, Doe, Poet

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• Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

  Henny Youngman

  Mother, Law, Cuckoos

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• Here's the thing - you can't be careful about what you pick because what looks like on paper is going to be a great script has often turned out to be a disaster, so there's no way to know what's going to work or to pick the right thing.

  Halle Berry

  Looks, Way, Scripts

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• I just like to take my time, have a cup of tea and read the paper. I don't like starting the day in a panic.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Tea, Panic, Cups

  "Interrogation: Strictly's Len and Bruno". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. April 6, 2008.

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• But when I was a kid, I would look at the paper next to the phone and I would think to myself, "I want to do that." So I started doing that. [doodling]

  Jeff Vespa

  Kids, Thinking, Phones

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this is going to sound really sort of pretentious, but that's where my mind was at the time - how acting and the performing artist can really be like a Bodhisattva, how they can communicate ultimately an idea in a way that can move and shift things. And that was wonderful. I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea, and that happened to be one of them.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Moving, Writing, Artist

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• Money could never have originated as paper.

  James Cook

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• LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup.

  Raymond Chandler

  Heart, Cups

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• Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. Never, btw, ask that androgynous paper clip anything. S/he is just a stooge for management, leading you down more rabbit holes of options for things called Wizards, Macros, Templates, and Cascading Style Sheets.

  Louis Menand

  Style, Trying, Ark

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• We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.

  Scot McKnight

  Differences, Persons, Asks

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• You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer. Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible.

  David Edelstein

  Country, Reading, Mean

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• Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Talking, Editors

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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