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• Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Ideas, Doe

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

  William Beveridge

  Philosophy, Political, Privilege

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• Dumb nerd, scratch everything you already done heard
  I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word.

  Chamillionaire

  Hip Hop, Dumb, Nerd

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• Something is not yet right and ripe in our human society at the beginning of the 21st century and third millennium: missing is an unprecedented vision, boldness and courage to fashion a new, promising, better future. Our beliefs, society, ways of life, institutions and future goals must be reviewed and reappraised fundamentally from scratch.

  Robert Muller

  Fashion, Goal, Missing

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• Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

  Edward Hoagland

  Life, Divorce, Men

  Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

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• Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write, feed the hunger for meaning in your life. Play at the serious questions of life and death.

  Donald Murray

  Writing, Editors, Play

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• Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music...I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

  Carly Simon

  Song, Writing, My Boyfriend

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• I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from scratch and take them to parties or be really thoughtful about birthdays and anniversaries.

  Jenna Fischer

  Anniversary, Party, Struggle

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• My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

  Molly Sims

  Birthday, Mom, Cake

  "Molly Sims: Fab for fall". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.cnn.com. September 6, 2010.

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• My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Smell

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• Each time I do a trilogy it's ten years out of my life. I'll finish Episode III and I'll be 60. And the next 20 years after that I want to spend doing something other than Star Wars. If at 80 I'm still lively and having a good time and think I can work for another 10 years between 80 and 90, I might consider it. But don't count on it. There's nothing written, and it's not like I'm completing something. I'd have to start from scratch. The idea of a third trilogy was more of a media thing than it was me.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Thinking

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• It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.

  Reggie Jackson

  New York, Boys, Fickle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.

  James Thurber

  Government, Becoming, Actors

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Men, Law, Bird

  Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The Courage to be Happy”

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• Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.

  Charles Bukowski

  Nice, Fighting, Names

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• Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.

  Elena Ferrante

  Dream, Children, Pain

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• The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

  Umberto Eco

  Reality, Battle, Movement

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?'

  Nikita Khrushchev

  People, Political, Promise

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• Don't wait till you are big before you begin building your brand. Build a brand from scratch alongside your business.

  Richard Branson

  Waiting, Survival, Building

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• The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Wisdom, Sleep, Cat

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• There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.

  Kurt Busch

  Inspirational, Car, Victory

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• It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

  Carson Kressley

  Hours, Program, Hard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People say, "How do you get into the British film industry?" There is no British film industry, there are just people making films and finding their own way. It's not like in the States where there are studios and there's an actual infrastructure to it; there's just nothing here. You make it from scratch a lot of the time.

  Ben Wheatley

  People, Way, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everyone should try to scratch their name on the bomb of life.

  George Carlin

  Names, Trying, Bombs

  George Carlin (2009). “Last Words”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.

  Emily Giffin

  Careers, People, Wish

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.129, Macmillan

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