The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events. ~Lisa Ling
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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Virtue is its own reward. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people. ~Tia Carrere
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be. ~Anna Kendrick
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Last ship, best ship. ~English Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ~Isaac Watts
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. ~Paulo Freire
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck; and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee; or you can go out and become an entrepreneur. ~Al Michaels
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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