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The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.
Teddy Thompson
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It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.
Mal Peet
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There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.
Mario Van Peebles
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The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.
Suze Orman
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I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.
Sondre Lerche
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Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
Nolan Bushnell
In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
Barbara Olson
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I think of workshopping as a way to read your own work through the eyes of others - a scene that you write gets refracted by those around you, and suddenly you have several different readings of it, each with a different momentum for how it might be retooled or reshaped.
Alexandra Kleeman
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I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.
Kate Atkinson
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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Rush Limbaugh
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I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.
CeeLo Green
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I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.
Utah Phillips
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
Irvine Welsh
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If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end.


Johnny Vegas
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If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Zig Ziglar
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You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.


Charles Duhigg
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I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.


Venus Williams
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I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.
Kevin Garnett
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I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.
Fred Frith
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I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.


Alan Bennett
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