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As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
Stanley Crouch
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A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
Raymond Carver
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If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.


Irvin S. Cobb
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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
Stephen Sondheim
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We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him.
Margaret Whiting
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You ever get that feeling that you just have too many hits?


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I get asked enough questions, I try not to ask too many questions.


Derek Jeter
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Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
Barry Larkin
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There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
Lady Gregory
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Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.
Howard Hawks
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It is almost impossible to divorce sport from politics, but sport is such a positive factor in today's society - there is nothing else which will bring so many people together in that atmosphere.
Lynn Davies
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
Steven Pinker
Turn on all security features like two-factor authentication. People who do that generally don't get hacked. Don't care? You will when you get hacked. Do the same for your email and other social services, too.
Robert Scoble
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Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things.


Steve Brown
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New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God.
Tim LaHaye
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I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.


Gary Barlow
Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.
Boris Johnson
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.


Karl Marx
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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