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  • Don Marquis I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Burton Richter I got no thrill from solving an integral equation, but I did get a thrill from building an exotic piece of equipment that worked.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Bill Bryson I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Sam Walton I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Albert Ellis I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Maxine Waters I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
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  • Philip Roth I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Tennessee Williams I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Armistead Maupin I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Winston Churchill I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Robert Conklin I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.
    Robert Conklin
    American teacher, writer
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  • Busy Philipps I have great ideas, but the follow through is always really difficult for me. As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I'd like to get more into developing ideas and writing things.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Groucho Marx I have no advice to give to young actors. To young, struggling actresses, my advice is to keep struggling. If you struggle long enough, you will never get in trouble and if you never get in trouble, you will never be much of an actress.
    Variety, June 1941
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Jimmy Carter I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Busy Philipps I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Tallulah Bankhead I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Abdul Qadeer Khan I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
    Abdul Qadeer Khan
    Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936 - )
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  • Allan Carr I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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