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I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer.

David Duchovny

Thinking, Lucky, Firsts

Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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Some kids are fine, but often I don't like what I see in child actors. My kids are young and they are already showing an interest, so I have to try to discourage them, squash that in them.

John Leguizamo

Children, Kids, Trying

"Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

Arthur Schopenhauer

World, Bugs, Professors

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Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new words. Leave a place for the strange and downright impossible ones. Use ancient words. Hold on to the gangly, silly, slippy, truthful, dangerous, out-of-fashion ones.

Kyo Maclear

Fashion, Silly, Swings

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Believe it or not, Mexican cooking, for those of you who have not gone farther south than Taco Bell, uses a lot of vegetables. But those vegetables were not brought here, like corn mushrooms, huitlacoche, or squash blossoms.

Sandra Cisneros

Believe, Vegetables, Mushrooms

"Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard.

William Shakespeare

Sports

William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1784). “The Beauties of Shakespeare ... The Third Edition, Corrected, Revised and Enlarged”, p.305

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I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn't understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.

Alain Prost

Sports, Drivers, South

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

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Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel.

Elvis Stojko

Sports, Skating, Done

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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

Agnes Smedley

Sports, Gambling, Months

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They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.

Giacomo Casanova

Sports, Youth, Kind

Giacomo Casanova “The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt”, Library of Alexandria

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July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden - first sweet corn on the cob dripping with butter, first tomatoes dead ripe and sunwarm, string beans, squash, crisp cucumbers. July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.

Jean Hersey

Sweet, Beach, Garden

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I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.

Ariel Pink

Song, Hate, Understanding

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point of view in the room that they don't squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling.

David Horowitz

Character, Names, Views

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No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.

Tom Watson

Sports, Golf, Games

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You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.

Sergei Bubka

Sports, Needs, Six

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I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.

Owen Hart

Brother, Bottom Of The Barrel, Shadow

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Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

Tom Scholz

Stories, Magazines, Want

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I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

Ray Floyd

Golf, Attention, Littles

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Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.

Jeff Buckley

Memories, Eye, Thinking

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Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.

Nicholas Culpeper

Roots, Dry, May

Nicholas Culpeper (1863). “The complete herbal; to which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities ... to which are now first annexed, The English physician, enlarged, and Key to physic ... New edition ... Illustrated by engravings of numerous British herbs and plants, correctly coloured from nature”, p.201

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To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.

Garet Garrett

Views, Mind, Firsts

Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

Neve Campbell

Inspirational, Dance, Sports

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My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

Arlen Specter

Winning, Definitions, Lost

"Former Senator Arlen Specter Dies At 82". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. October 15, 2012.

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Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Wisdom, Broken Spirit, Broken Promises

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Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

Bill Toomey

Sports, Creative, Activity

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