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  • Lorrie Moore Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.
    Source: Net echt (2012) 172
    Lorrie Moore
    American fiction writer (1957 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Atom Egoyan Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Billy Connolly Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Anthony Sampson Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
    Anthony Sampson
    British writer and journalist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Bram Stoker One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.
    Source: Dracula (1897) Dr. Seward of Lucy Westenra
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Bernard Cornwell One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Bryan Adams One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Abe Lemons One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
    Abe Lemons
    American basketball player and coach (1922 - 2002)
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  • Anish Kapoor One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Sir Walter Scott One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • May Sarton One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Anita Diamant One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Carolyn Murphy One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Carlo Ratti One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Byron Howard One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That's why animals are great.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Randall Jarrell One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like a child.
    Randall Jarrell
    poet, critic, novelist, essayist (1914 - 1965)
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