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For us, the week we're in now is approaching as strong as the holiday week.


Barbara Thomke

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KATHY DOTSON The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, ...
KENNETH GRAHAME Every week were just as excited for the game. Every week we feel like we have to win.
CHARLES CLARK That was as strong a signal as you could expect. We had a good week for the dollar.
BRIAN ROSE Overall, it was night and day from last week. As bad as we were last week, we were good this week. I...
DOUG PRESTON Roses are red, Violettes are bllue,
Valentines day is consumerous crap,now don't you have ironi...
MOCK OF THE WEEK THE SHOW We had a great week last week and we struggled a little bit this week. Obviously I don't think we we...
B.J. SANDER This is a normal part of our planning cycle, ... You should have as much confidence in us this week ...
HANK MCKINNELL Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS There's not a strong enough week-in, week-out reinforcement of the need for access to public records...
FRANK DEANER The contract was signed just over a week ago, and everything is now in place for work to start in th...
DANREE DELANCY You look at the squad one week and think it's reasonably strong, ... then a couple are injured and i...
ALEX MCLEISH Japan is entering the summer holiday season. Activity should be limited this week and next.
MINORU TADA I think there was a time last year and the year before when we were down in the cellar. We didn't ha...
JAY CUTLER It's been a great week, the best week we've had downtown, as for graffiti vandals being caught.
MICHAEL SCHMAND We finally got the gang back together. It was important for us to play together for a little bit lea...
PATRICK KERNEY In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
GAYLE GARDNER In which case I'm only a week outside the 11-week rest period. As far as I'm concerned, I'm up for s...
MARTIN CORRY Somebody's got to play in Edmonton that week. It might as well be us.
LONIE GLIEBERMAN As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for ...
DANA TORRES Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering...
BASIL HUME It's a very strong week for auctions, compared to other weeks in the year. It's very unusual to have...
ALESSANDRO TENTORI Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA That was the week of spring break, and we hadn't practiced in a week. The girls are more focused rig...
CHAD KISON Our season begins now, as far as I'm concerned. We lost to the best team in the state, as far as I'm...
BRIAN SEYMORE Copper rose because traders are expecting consumption to increase after the week-long holiday.
GU YUAN Last week was a long week for us. We try to put the week in perspective. We are still optimistic. Th...
ERIC STEEGE It was a long week for us, a long week for Scottville.
DINA HACKERT We had a tough match with Napa and the girls came back on short notice. The singles players played e...
GREG DAVIS Live everyday, as if you were a week away from being sentenced to jail, for the rest of your life.
ERIC JOHNSON This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of wha...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I have this weird syndrome approaching 10am. Can I please say bugger next week?
ELTON JOHN Things are not happening for us right now, the injuries, the illness this week, the Hail Mary pass.
CHARLIE GUNSELL During the holiday-shortened week, the MBA may have overcompensated its seasonal adjustment of the d...
CELIA CHEN Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Mortgage rates were relatively unchanged this week as the markets wait for the results of the upcomi...
FRANK NOTHAFT As a former presidential campaign manager, I remember the final week of the campaign as being the lo...
BOB BECKEL Consumers were not in the holiday spirit up until the last week of the holiday season, when there wa...
BILL DREHER Every week is a new week. It's a new hope for us. It hurts a little to start a season off like that,...
GENE ENGELKES Every week is a new week, ... It's a new hope for us. It hurts a little to start a season off like t...
HIAWATHA The sentiment is not as enthusiastic as it was early this week. Investors are starting to realize th...
KEVIN FLANAGAN Last week, we won as a football team and everything went right for us. Today, it felt like the total...
LOVIE SMITH I just really just try to get better as a player every week, just focusing on the team we have to pl...
ROB GRONKOWSKI We came here. We attacked. The better team doesn't always win. We were not the lesser team last week...
BOB GANSLER As far as the club is concerned, this issue is behind us and we're eagerly awaiting Sunday's game. H...
DOUG HICKS As far as the club is concerned, this issue is behind us and we're eagerly awaiting Sunday's game, ....
DOUG HICKS It's great to practice more, but it's just as important to face real competition. Playing week-to-we...
KIT MOORE We watched film all week, and their defense wasn't as good as I thought it would be. When we were wa...
VICTOR ANDERSON This is an opportunity we would want to take ... you just jump at something like this. This has serv...
GENE DALES As early as last week, ... the World Health Organization sent a strong message ..... saying to take ...
JIM CLARK We didn't play bad at Central (last week), we just didn't execute very well and turnovers were an is...
JODDIE GLEASON The intensity definitely stemmed from last week. This week, we were determined to come out and play ...
JOSH WRIGHT I actually think that, a few months from now, we're going to look back at last week and maybe even t...
LINDA JAY Georgia is the front runner, and we think we're in like the second place. Our sources in Korea - and...
JOE HIGGINS We just didn't want to see the same thing happen as we did last week. This was an important win for ...
ALEX TANGUAY Everett is not as strong as they were in the past. It was a good learning experience for us and it g...
BILL BARRETT We've taken as much on Adelaide this week as we have for the other three teams combined.
GARY DAVIES As of right now, he's planning on playing the rest of the games this week, then we'll look and see w...
BRYAN MURRAY Right now the producers of 'Modern Family' have no idea how many people watch our show each ...
STEVEN LEVITAN Offensively, we have been getting better each week. We took a step back last week as Tri-County did ...
DALE SCHURING Usually you are pretty happy with two eagles in a week, never mind the same nine. The conditions wer...
BRIAN GUETZ Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the major...
LEE WESTWOOD We've seen regular steady declines week in and week out [in the four-week moving average], with the ...
JEFFREY WENGER I think his improvement and growth is as good as we've had from the beginning of the year to now. Es...
PHIL ANDERSON The week after Christmas in our business is virtually as good as the week before Christmas. In the l...
LARRY MONDRY I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week o...
DAK PRESCOTT He had a bad deal. With his neck injury then his eye socket and then his back, but he's now fully fi...
GRAHAM DAWE The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA We are really worried that the LAPD has really seen this week somehow as a week of redemption.
MARGARET PRESCOD Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
ADAM LAMBERT They'll be fine. As long as they play the Bengals every week.
BOOMER ESIASON We feel like we are making a little bit of history in the bay area with Cheryl. And it's particularl...
LYNN WARGO We were working on our doubles because we got swept there by Texas Tech and (we are) focused on conc...
OLGA KLIMOVA ...The Arabs I rode herding cattle with your father in the fifties and sixties would do a full day�...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And ...
EVA LONGORIA As for the Fed, we look for 50 (basis points, a half-percentage point) next week.
IAN SHEPHERDSON Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as ...
ELIZABETH DAVID I don't think investors should expect any surprises from retail results this week. The holiday seaso...
KAREN SACK Now it's our job to put this game behind us and get ready for next week. It was a tough game for us....
EMILY MARTIN Whatever extra time we need to put in as far as watching film or extra practice, we'll do it. We're ...
CLINT INGRAM We were disappointed to learn last week that these fields were closed to us.
STEVE BROWN Sometimes late in the week, injuries happen. It had no outcome on the game as far as we're concerned...
LOVIE SMITH You can say you've always been focused and all that, but honestly, I think this is the most focused ...
IAN GOLD As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my vo...
SINEAD O'CONNOR We were a little deflated after Chicago. We worked hard this week and wanted to finish strong, so it...
BERNIE LILAVOIS I've seen no one become the spokesperson for the driver brigade as Dale Earnhardt was week in and we...
LARRY MCREYNOLDS We practiced what they were going to do all week so nothing was a surprise to us. We were able to ca...
JOE EVANS For me, every week is a fashion week.
NUNO ROQUE We'll see how practice goes this week, and make a decision later in the week. They'll both get (prac...
JEFF TEDFORD The season followed some patterns that are typical. We're seeing the week after Christmas playing a ...
MALACHY KAVANAGH Gas prices dropped at a slightly slower pace than the prior week, which can be attributed to level c...
CAROL THORP We knew they were going to try to take Calvin out of the game. Same as last week with Auburn.
DAMARIUS BILBO The kids just played an exceptional game. Defense right now is playing very strong with five shutout...
CURT GROTTENTHALER As we looked at the analysis provided a week ago, the levels of TNT that were reported in the air sa...
DIANNE NIELSON If our seniors don't play well we don't win that football game. I also think our coaches did a good ...
HUGH FOUNTAIN Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as e...
DON MARQUIS After a mild start to the week, temperatures in the Northeast and Midwest, key gas consuming markets...
MICHAEL FITZPATRICK Week by week the government has had to change their case on ID cards as more and more defects are re...
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BARBARA KRUGER We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will ta...
BARBARA KOPPLE Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
BARBARA KOPPLE I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmakin...
BARBARA KOPPLE I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w...
BARBARA KOPPLE The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The first sentence of a book is a promise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the l...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of a...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact t...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when th...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that har...
BARBARA JORDAN Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
BARBARA JORDAN We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. The...
BARBARA JORDAN