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  • Carl Sandburg I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • George Eliot I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bruce Coville I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Harold Pinter I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
    Harold Pinter
    English playwright, screenwriter and director (1930 - 2008)
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Jonathan Safran Foer I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 17
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    American novelist (1977 - )
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Phil McGraw I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
    Phil McGraw
    American television personality and author (1950 - )
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  • John McGahern I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
    (2002)
    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • Steve Martin I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
    Steve Martin
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bryan Batt I think in your home, you should only use colors that you look good in. It's a little self-serving but think if it as you're on a stage. Not with any pressure, but you want to showcase yourself.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Anne Tyler I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Arthur Boyd I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
    Arthur Boyd
    Australian painter (1920 - 1999)
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  • Anne Perry I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Busy Philipps I think it's important for kids to express themselves with bad fashion. I struggle a little bit now because I have a daughter and I feel with fashion, like they're sexualizing the kids so young. Little kids in high heels and that kind of thing is really difficult for me to wrap my head around.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Albert Ellis I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Miller I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Mark Haddon I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2005) p. 34
    Mark Haddon
    English writer and illustrator (1962 - )
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  • Ann Beattie I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Malcolm X I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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