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  • Joan Didion Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
    (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • B. B. King Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Boman Irani Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Admiral Grace Hopper One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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  • Will Rogers One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • William Ellery Channing One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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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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  • Woodrow Wilson One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • James T. Mccay One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.
    James T. Mccay
    American author
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  • William Ellery Channing One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Benjamin Franklin One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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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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  • Aphra Behn One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • Thomas Carlyle One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Euripides One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Bill Rancic One of the things we've always tried to do is help others with our story. Whether it's with the infertility issues, whether it's with the breast cancer, we said we're gonna turn these negatives into positives. And if we can help others by sharing our story, then it's worth it.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Butch Trucks One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bram Cohen One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.
    Bram Cohen: Creator of BitTorrent, WrongPlanet.net, undated; accessed March 9, 2006, 17:01 (UTC)
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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