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  • Angela Carter I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Angela Davis I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Martina Navratilova I think the key is for women not to set any limits.
    Martina Navratilova
    American Tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I think the success of the 'Twilight' movies, not just the books, comes down to Stephenie Meyer.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Arthur Rock I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
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  • Alan Dershowitz I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Huey Newton I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I think what's exciting about playing a villain - particularly a villain who's totally unapologetic about their evil intentions - is that it's not anything remotely like what you get to do in real life. You're never allowed to be evil and not feel bad about it afterwards, let alone be evil, period.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg I think when you get out of the big cities people get really freaked out when they see someone who is on TV, because they're not used to that.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Bruce Feirstein I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • Alfred de Vigny I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Lord Arthur Balfour I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill]
    Lord Arthur Balfour
    British statesman (1848 - 1930)
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  • Edmund Burke I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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