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• It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Wisdom, Struggle, Writing

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• I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go from my studio to my bedroom. Everything else is extraneous. I never entertain, because to me, New York is about meeting people in public spaces, absorbing a little bit of their energy.

  Ross Bleckner

  New York, Space, People

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• Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

  Gary Burton

  People, Listening, Records

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• In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'.

  Casey Abrams

  Watching Tv, Tvs, Couches

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• You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!

  Duane G. Carey

  Hobbies, Way, Spare Time

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• I gathered all the different Peel Sessions recordings together - I did six or seven of them over the years - and listened to all of them. These definitely have at least a superficial relationship to each other because they're all very spare.

  Will Oldham

  Years, Together, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Motors that are vulnerable to shorting out because of snow ingestion should have snow filters installed over air intakes, and spare motors should be ready to replace any failed motors.

  Robert James Thomson

  Air, Should Have, Snow

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• It's just a spare room in my apartment. It's very cluttered and not particularly aesthetically inspiring, and it's very un-noise-proof.

  Julia Kent

  Noise, Rooms, Proof

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We do need to plan ahead, don't we, in life? I have spare tire on my car. I also have life insurance. I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for.

  Peter DeGraaf

  Car, Needs, Tire

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• So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

  Regina Spektor

  Letting Go, Rejection, Break

  Song: Ode to Divorce, Album: Soviet Kitsch, 2004

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• Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.

  Kevin Garnett

  Games, Video, Gamer

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• People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.

  Kim Harrison

  Believe, People, Looks

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• The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about character or theme or mood or mode or tense or person. But bowlers say, if you make the spares, the strikes will take care of themselves. If you can tell a story, everything else becomes possible. But without story, nothing is possible, because nobody wants to hear about your sensitive characters if there's nothing happening in the story. And the same is true with mood. Story is the only thing that's important.

  Stephen King

  Character, Writing, Important

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• There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

  Abbey Lincoln

  Men, Outlook On Life, People

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• We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.

  John L. Phillips

  Program, Spare Time, Extras

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• We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Humility, Judging

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• War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

  Anacreon

  War, Brave, Total War

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• Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.

  Karlie Kloss

  Mean, Chocolate, Kitchen

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• We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Suicide, July, Bombers

  "This 7/7 report wasn't good enough" by Pauline Neville-Jones, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2009.

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• Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?

  Yip Harburg

  Brother, Railroads, Dimes

  "Song: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (1930) performed as part of the play "New Americana", 1932.

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• Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

  William Bolitho

  Sorry, Poetry, Dull

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• Day by day night after night Blinded by the neon lights Hurry here, hustlin' there No one's got the time to spare Money's tight, nothin' free Won't somebody come and rescue me? I am stranded, caught in the crossfire Stranded, caught in the crossfire! Tooth for tooth, eye for an eye Sell your soul just to buy, buy, buy Beggin' a dollar stealin' a dime Come on can't you see that I I am stranded, caught in the crossfire

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Eye, Night, Light

  Song: Crossfire

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• Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

  Horace

  Mad, Insanity

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• Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.

  Ovid

  Believe, Affliction, Unfortunate

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• Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

  Alexander Pope

  Wings, Hawks, Dove

  Alexander Pope (1840). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author ...”, p.249

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