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• Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Writing, Men

  "Rachel Kushner: The Useless Truth". Interview with Jonathan Lee, www.guernicamag.com. February 17, 2014.

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• To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'.

  Eleanor Clark

  Artist, Firsts, Sides

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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• The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

  George P. Shultz

  World, Common, Terrorist

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• My judgment is that research in 'Star Wars' is going to fail, and I believe this so strongly that I'm willing to stake my professional reputation on this. I don't believe anybody is going to build this thing.

  David Parnas

  Stars, War, Believe

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• I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

  Whitney Cummings

  Relationship, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. September 15, 2011.

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• If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  Responsibility, Helping, Audience

  "Norbert Leo Butz and the root of evil". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

  Billy Crudup

  Play, People, Certain

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• Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.

  Frank Carlucci

  Moving, Iran, United States

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• But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

  Ira Glass

  Issues, Interesting, Burning

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• ...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it.

  Irving Kristol

  Philosophical, Views, Civilization

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• It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Country, Rome, Years

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• IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Sitting, Body

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.98, 谷月社

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• The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

  Henry Norris Russell

  Faith, Needs, Venture

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• Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free.

  Ronald Reagan

  Society, Alive, Spirit

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words”

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• There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

  Jon Voight

  Country, Real, War

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• GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were of a verbal nature. Also I wanted to write a play where people were smarter than I was, and more alive than I feel normally. I became interested in the idea of characters who would surprise me. I guess one could argue that nothing comes out of you that wasn't within you to begin with, but maybe there are ways to trick yourself into becoming more an observer or an advocate for the characters.

  Peter Hedges

  Writing, Character, Play

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• Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that by speaking from the heart about the things that matter most to us. If a play isn't worth dying for, maybe it isn't worth writing.

  Terrence McNally

  Writing, Heart, Play

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• Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Travel, White

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.450, Penguin

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• I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.

  William McNamara

  Lying, Humble, Reality

  William McNamara (1977). “Mystical passion: spirituality for a bored society”

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• The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed.

  Pascal Boyer

  Violence, Cost, Increase

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• In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.

  Jeff Raikes

  Order, Succeed, Order To Succeed

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• Power and wealth are not two of my main stakes.

  Ratan Tata

  Two, Wealth

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• It is my dream to have a controlling stake of Arsenal.

  Alisher Usmanov

  Dream, Arsenal

  "Alisher Usmanov 'dreams' of taking total control at Arsenal". www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2012.

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• When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

  Lars von Trier

  Festivals, Film, Shows

  "Interview: Lars von Trier" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.

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• A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

  Dana Spiotta

  Coherence, Satisfaction, Authenticity

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