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Related Suddenly the song had this attitude, ... It was like, kind of, 'Oh! Where did the attitude come from... GWEN STEFANI I tip my hat to San Diego, they had a first-place season. Our guys, to get to this point from where ... MARK PARENT Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was will... ALEX LIFESON And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us ba... JAMES YOUNG We will be quick and I like the way these guys play. We played very well last year except for one ga... BRUCE MILLER It was nice to get a win, but we're nowhere near where we need to be at the end of the year. It's a ... BRIAN WOJTUN With us, who knows? You just don't know where it's going to come from, and our guys, when they're ca... JACK SCHRADER Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR They're a physical team. They don't do a lot of jazz and all that stuff. They run the ball right at ... BRENNAN SCHMIDT It wasn't too pretty in Florida, but it was spring training and you're just trying to work on your s... CHRIS SMITH Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "... ZADIE SMITH It was our first meet at Yale's new track, and we did a pretty good job. We're well ahead of where w... GWEN HARRIS She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew t... MARGARET MCMULLAN By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it ... LLOYD DORFMAN The stuff that coach Barnes gave us to work with is real good. Since Day One, he kept on saying, 'Ha... DUSTIN SCOTT The group is young. This semester was just a lot of organizational [planning] [and] getting us to wh... DAVID GOLDMAN I told our guys at halftime that they were going to come out and press us and trap us, and that's ju... BRYANT TURNEY There isn't that many places where women can go to be supported and have an advisory group or peer g... LINDA PRICE I didn't know what English was all about. It was just our destiny to be chosen to come to the States... JAMES SUONG What Coach Reid does is just try and share his confidence, ... He says, 'Hey, we got it started. Let... CHAD LEWIS If something happens to me, you'll know, well, hey, at least somebody spoke up. Just want to tell yo... CARLA HUBBARD It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come fr... ANTHONY BURGESS When we started it up, it was just a group of guys and girls, we got together and we made our own sh... BOCHEN UANG D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and ... BRYCE HARPER This group of girls just clicks so well together. From the first day of practice, it was fun. ASHLEY CAMPBELL Where does the mind come from? Where do individual thoughts come from? Where does all talent come fr... SHANA ODEN Usually bullpen guys are cut from the same mould. They're laid back, they don't take things too frea... B.J. RYAN I always say Los Angeles is the place where British people come to exceed their worth. It's quit... RYAN CARTWRIGHT Jared did a tremendous job for us today. We feel good about our first five or six (pitchers). It's t... GREG MCVEY Today they found a way to get it done against a team that I have a lot of respect for. We knew this ... JOE TORNETTA I did a lot of short films online, so I come from that background where a lot of people see your stu... BEN SCHWARTZ We needed a game like this where we had to step up at the end. I'm upset we didn't play well, but it... CARMEN DOLFO We tell our backs to just get on the back hip of that guy on those pulling plays and just ride it ou... EARNEST BYNER He was real consistent down the stretch last year, and he's carried it over to this year. He was fig... BLAISE ILSLEY In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about... BRAD PITT Our guys just stepped up and hit some free throws at the end. We've been so close so many times, it ... JASON SHELTON Now that I'm back at this point, if I wasn't a level-headed individual, I'd be exploding and blastin... KORDELL STEWART They're a good 1-2 punch, probably the best in the nation. But I thought we did a real good job. We ... EVAN BENJAMIN I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better... COMMON I thought we executed well. The guys shot the ball well. Our inside game wasn't where I wanted it to... DANNY PETTY Tyler is an awesome player and the other guys really compliment what he does. It seemed like any tim... DAN GONZALEZ The guys adapted well early on, when it did a little bit, and overall it was a good day for us. IAN BELL Everybody knows at that point he's all business. We've just got to make it where he's not doing that... MARCUS GINYARD We're still at that stage where we don't know really how to play when we're up. We're really good at... DANIE CARO There's a lot of things guys did to get the lead where we were -- we were up by 10 at one point and ... BRENT PETWAY Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' I... CARLOS SANTANA They played better defense, and they blocked better than we did. We didn't get into our offense enou... AL WARDEN We started to run and jump at them. We did it from different places, so they couldn't tell where the... BARRY GEBHART Perhaps we should acknowledge where others come from, as it might just be where we are headed. ELIZABETH ALRAUNE We thought this would be a great place for all of us to gather. We just wanted to be able to be wher... DONNA ORENDER I saw Keith there at the end so I guess he was pretty close. Charlie gives us real good stuff and I ... ALAN COLE From where these kids have come from, and then to have something like that make ESPN, it just makes ... GREG VAUGHN The Walk:
Where are you going old man;
your last walk was far, yet so near.
Where did you come from ... RICARDO ALONSO This is where the Final Four is played, so hopefully we can get back here. It's real big for us to p... DAVID LIGHTY I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And ... ABIGAIL WASHBURN Schedules on TV are so tight, and it feels like they get tighter and tighter with every passing year... JESSICA RAINE That's where our leadership has got to come from, our sophomores. I thought he got after it and we n... GRANT MCCASLAND It was a good team win. We've been working on our execution of things and where the shots come from ... MIKE ARNOLD It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were y... SARAH DESSEN Without these people, it would take us years to get where we're at. Without the hours that these peo... DOUG SANFORD This is where Ray would have wanted to be. It served us well and now we want it to serve the wonderf... JOE ADAMS Hey - how can I find a head of wild lettuce? Where does it grow? JOEY SANTIAGO We're at about where I thought we would be, this is a good group of guys. They work hard, put in a l... DALE ERICKSON This was a big win. We needed to come from behind like that. Our bullpen came in and did a great job... MATT CRAIG Well, guess where most of those fires and crises come from? Correct - from secondary things that wer... DAVID ALLEN Our guys are going to swim a lot this weekend. We want to look at how they can handle that. It'll ce... BRIAN HOFFER It really provides the answer to 'Where did the Lucy species come from? TIM WHITE All three of our pitchers did a good job of pitching ahead in the count. All week, the bullpen reall... GARY POWERS It was another great win. It was important for us to come out to get a good start today, and we did ... CORY MEE Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. "Where... BRANDON SANDERSON The group that does costumes for the Tennessee Repertory Theater is doing our costumes. We have acce... ANDY FORD We had a great group of guys, and it was a lot of fun going over there. And to win, there is nothing... JAY BOUWMEESTER It's just opening up a can of worms. It's going to be a witch hunt. I'm not saying to brush it under... DAVE MACHEMER It's one of those things where instead of saying, 'Yeah it's a good idea. We should do that sometime... DOMINIC SUCHYTA Life is a test. It was designed to be so. It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where w... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once ... JOHN MICHAEL HAYES Some intelligence officers filed reports saying that this is a dangerous group, but at one level it ... YOWERI MUSEVENI We thought it was crucial for us to get out fast in the second half, and we pushed the lead from nin... LYNN WASHOWICH Hemingway said: 'It don't come anymore.' So where did it go? WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Wester... PAULINE NEVILLE-JONES It was a feeling that hasn't been around here in a long time. A lot of us older guys talked to the y... JAMES SIMS Seeing Neil Entwistle standing accused of this awful crime gives us little comfort and only adds to ... JOE FLAHERTY When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come fr... MICHAEL FASSBENDER We kept saying how important it was for us to get the boards and get good looks. I think we did a gr... FRANK SCIOLLA You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken i... S. E. HINTON If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you ... LOUISE L. HAY My first response --- shock and awe. It's like, Where did this come from? JEFF KOENINGS We're doing a lot of this with guys that are new to varsity experience. So from an experience standp... BRAD TINGEY You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA The whole incident was definitely a disappointing thing for a group that does stuff to help our kids... ALAN ROSS I told them at the end of last season that the challenge for them was to win 15 or more games this s... ANDY DAIGLE When people come to see us, they'll get so many flavors of acoustic roots music. It makes it hard to... LAURENCE KNIGHT It was a situation that offered something to each of us, in terms of our own desires just to get bet... EDGAR MEYER We're just trying to string some wins together. We only had a couple of guys over there (at the Olym... BOYD DEVEREAUX Rachel and Lilly loved Neil very much. Neil was a trusted husband and father and it is incomprehensi... JOE FLAHERTY They are going to be hungry - they lost two out of three this (past) weekend. It's definitely a big ... JAMEY SHOUPPE It had gotten to the point where it was so hard for families to get together. We thought it would be... GEORGE HREHOWESIK I don't think it was anything Stewart or David did, ... We just got off to a hot start and from ther... MIKE WEIR
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NEIL GAIMAN They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one... NEIL GAIMAN The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be... NEIL GAIMAN The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges. NEIL GAIMAN You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' ... NEIL GAIMAN Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don'... NEIL GAIMAN Oh- my twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And ... NEIL GAIMAN I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by weari... NEIL GAIMAN Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she ... NEIL GAIMAN Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted. NEIL GAIMAN Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to... NEIL GAIMAN We are small but we are many We are many we are small We were here before you rose We... NEIL GAIMAN I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you. NEIL GAIMAN The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world. NEIL GAIMAN The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We ke... NEIL GAIMAN It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning,... NEIL GAIMAN But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it? NEIL GAIMAN How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I s... NEIL GAIMAN Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave. NEIL GAIMAN I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got ev... NEIL GAIMAN I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. NEIL GAIMAN You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen. NEIL GAIMAN I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody... NEIL GAIMAN You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not. NEIL GAIMAN What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it�... NEIL GAIMAN I’m not happy about any of this,” said Thor. “I’m going to kill somebody soon, just to relie... NEIL GAIMAN Fair enough,” said Thor. “What’s the price?” “Freya’s hand in marriage.” “He just wa... NEIL GAIMAN Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki�... NEIL GAIMAN You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am ... NEIL GAIMAN