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  • In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.
  • I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!.
  • If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.
  • If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.
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  • David Gemmell I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf.
    Source: Lord of the Silver Bow (2005)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Horace Mann Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Horace Mann Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Bill Bryson A friend Alan and I ended up in an Outback pub in a place called Daly Waters and apparently, he says, in the course of this very lively evening we spent there I offered to do a house swap with a family from Korea. We weren't sure whether they were from North Korea or South Korea.
    Source: Interview with Stanfords Newsletter (June 2001)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Anthony Holden Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bernie Sanders Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Anita Roddick I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Adam Faith I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!.
    Adam Faith
    English teen idol, singer, actor and financial journalist (1940 - 2003)
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  • Ben Elton If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Ben Wheatley If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Baruj Benacerraf In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Venezuelan-American immunologist (1920 - 2011)
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  • Bun E. Carlos In April of 1976, Epic Records was flying out to sign us when I tripped over a light case after a gig and broke my arm. We called the next morning and said, 'Don't go to the airport - Bun E. broke his arm.' They thought Mercury or someone was trying to sign us, so they offered us, like, $25,000 more on top of the deal.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Carol P. Christ In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Bebe Neuwirth In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud Levin wanted friendship and got friendliness; he wanted steak and they offered spam.
    Source: A New Life
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Gaston Bachelard Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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