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• I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

  Ian Rankin

  Football, Cutting, Men

  "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

  Martha Reeves

  Awards, Long, People

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• When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

  Scott Ritter

  Government, Issues, Going Out

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• The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

  Asne Seierstad

  Mean, Names, Risk

  "The Bookseller of Kabul author cleared of invading Afghan family's privacy" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2011.

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• Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

  George Strait

  Song, Morning, Mind

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• I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.

  Gordon Strachan

  Integrity, Years, Grate

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• The license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am.

  Liz Phair

  Tired, Faces, Said

  Song: Divorce Song, Album: Exile in Guyville

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• It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down and work, to schedule your time and stick to it. Even if it’s just for an hour or so each day, you have to get a babysitter and make the time. If you’re going to make writing succeed you have to approach it as a job.

  Rosellen Brown

  Jobs, Writing, Airplane

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• If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.

  Harry Hamlin

  Gay, Play, Doe

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• Stick to your values in all circumstances.

  Joel Manby

  Circumstances, Values

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• I actually think that the president owes the Jews of Europe an apology. They deserve better from the President of the United States. Anti-semitism is on the rise, and somebody must stick up for them.

  Dana Perino

  Apology, Thinking, Europe

  "Obama calls terror attack on Paris kosher deli a random act". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, www.foxnews.com. February 10, 2015.

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• Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out.

  Breaux Greer

  Men, Hey, Spices

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• I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.

  Laura Osnes

  Hair, Iron, Giving

  "Face Time | Laura Osnes". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

  Michael Baden

  Thinking, Drug, Arsenic

  "Sunday Morning" with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2003.

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• Reduce risk, lower your required capital, and focus on what you’re really good at—and hire others for what you are not.) This is something you should think about in any business: don’t try to do everything. You aren’t the best at everything. Find out where you have an advantage and stick to that.

  Marc Ecko

  Thinking, Focus, Risk

  Marc Ecko (2015). “Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.

  Bert Jansch

  Guitar, Guitar Playing, Showing Off

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• We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Civilization, Done, World

  George Bernard Shaw (1987). “Back to Methuselah”, p.443, Penguin UK

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• Many Christians are so spiritually frail, sickly, and lacking in spiritual vitality that they cannot stick to prayer for more than a few minutes at a time.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the tallest and fattest golf watcher on the course will take up station directly in front.

  Peter Dobereiner

  Golf, Shooting, Vantage Point

  Peter Dobereiner (1981). “The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner”

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• Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over time, and incrementally through no specific session, your body changes. Your mind becomes calloused to effort. You stop thinking of running as difficult or interesting or magical. It just becomes what you do. It becomes a habit.

  Jack Edmonds

  Running, Thinking, Interesting

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• Modern technology has conveniently provided a measuring stick by which you can determine whether or not you are conducting your business in an acceptable, ethical way. . . . You can ask yourself: How will I feel if my business dealings today are secretly recorded on a hidden video camera, and appear on this evening's television newscast for all to see?

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Technology, Video, Television

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• If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

  Harry Shearer

  Lasts, Figures, Minutes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes in life, we have to continue to learn the same lesson until it sticks.

  Jeremy Piven

  Lessons, Sometimes, Sometimes In Life

  "Jeremy Piven Talks MR. SELFRDIGE, Similarities Between His Characters Harry Selfridge and Ari Gold, Plus Fans’ Desire to See an ENTOURAGE Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 14, 2013.

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• Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

  Ouida

  Fall, Arrows, Scandal

  Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.60

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• The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

  William James

  Learning, Men, Acquisition

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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