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The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.
Janette Turner Hospital
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The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.
Ken Blanchard
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I have a pathetic urge at some stage in my life to be able to pull out my wallet and pull out a little card on which it would say, 'Kenneth Branagh, artistic director.'
Kenneth Branagh
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Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.
Anita Hill
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I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.


Pete Postlethwaite
The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
Nora Ephron
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Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.


Jesse Ventura
I have ideas. I hear voices. Words accumulate. It's still an overriding impulse. And I'm self-employed, which means I have to be sensible and motivated about paying the bills.
Sarah Hall
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The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far.


Josh Lucas
I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.
Eric Burdon
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I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.


Amartya Sen
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill
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Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.


Liam Neeson
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All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.


Paul Auster
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
Calvin Klein
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.


Barney Frank
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When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.
Jimmy Carter
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The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.
Anthony Bourdain
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War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.


Scott Nearing
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Meru was the most challenging climb of my life. Not once but twice.


Jimmy Chin
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