Our gymnasium was remarkable and had more stuff in it than one could dream up in a nightmare. Furthermore, every boy had to use every piece of it during gymnasium class.
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You're ... NICHOLAS SPARKS We started in a small, little room. Then we went to a gymnasium, to an auditorium. MANUEL AVILES More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could des... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Our class had to participate in the march - it was a class requirement. JAKE WILLIAMS I had everything that I needed, but every morning when I woke up, it just seemed easier to stay in b... HANNAH HART They were dying to. It was amazing. We actually had more photographers than we could use. JENNIFER BISHOP I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 19... SIMON VAN DER MEER Sometimes I wish I had not woken up from a beautiful dream, and continued dreaming within sleep upon... DANNY CASTILLONES SILLADA From next week, I will be on serious training, no laughing and joking in the gymnasium. CONJESTINA ACHIENG' I scrubbed every inch of my body until it was pink and shiny, laughing hysterically because I had to... JAY CROWNOVER J-Mac said he could beat me one-on-one. Well, before we make this movie we're going to come back int... MAGIC JOHNSON I don't see this as an upset. I bet everyone else in this gymnasium does, but I don't. History doesn... CRAIG CARPENTER The best thing about it was every one of our girls had something to do with it. DESTINY SCHANG I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. A... PATRICK DUFFY His house is filled with stuff he had been collecting and he wanted to share it, so that?s how we go... BETTY MENCUCCI It was a sense of urgency from the agency to get a warning and information to people who already had... JULIE VALLESE Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faste... CLARA MAMET The Chinese pianist Liu Chi Kung was imprisoned for seven years during the Cultural Revolution, duri... BERNIE ZILBERGELD They really whipped us up front. Every possession we had was three and out. We never could get Casey... MARK MCPHERSON The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and ex... JIMMY BRESLIN Our region is probably one of the toughest with Sturgis, Rapid City Stevens and Rapid City Central. ... JARED DIGMANN Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like... KEVIN DURANT You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare. RIC FLAIR Each role that I've played has had a piece of a dream role in it. DAKOTA FANNING I always had to rebuild. Every school I've coached at always had a losing season before. That was on... 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I had a sword in one hand and a stool in the other. I ... BAUVARD The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It see... MAUDE ADAMS This world is a joke, and I'm in it OLIWAH GOUDEE He had more velocity on his fastball, his changeup was slower, and he had sharper breaking stuff, ..... TODD PRATT She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. HOLLY BLACK It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now p... LAUREL LEE All of our guys in the finals wrestled great during the day to get there. I could mention every one ... JOE GODINHO When he first got down there, he was 'The Golden Child.' Everyone loved him, ... He had his whole fa... JAMIE SHARPER We charge a $5 donation at the door and run a bake sale. Last year, the gymnasium was packed with st... KIRSTEN HARDY It was bad. The little girl had two black eyes. She looked more like a little boy than a little girl... AWILDA CORDERO Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away? JOYCE RACHELLE I had a professor in college who returned our graded essays, walked up to the chalkboard, and wrote ... AUSTIN KLEON We had gunfire up and down here. We had looters over here. We drove in with a bus. We had people jum... KEVIN REGAN There was this seashell museum - it had every kind of seashell you could imagine. KATY JOHNSON In the second half Wartburg came out very aggressive and cut into our lead. But every time they made... DAN ROIGER Every single one of us needs to take a harder look at ourselves and challenge ourselves a lot more. ... BRIAN DUNSETH She had been a friend and companion such as few possessed: intelligent, well-informed, useful, gentl... JANE AUSTEN We were a two-income family with a 17-month-old-son in day care in Washington. We had not a financia... DAN CRANN Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how i... ELEANOR CATTON I have asked a lot of my emotions --one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up wit... SOURCE UNKNOWN When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates to... MARTIN O'MALLEY I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream. EMINEM Despite everything, every piece of Alaska sang to me. I remembered every curve in the trails, every ... SUMMER LANE Education is more intense than what it use to be. Kids are a lot smarter than they used to be, too, ... KAREN PHILLIPS He had the same look on his face that I had every day when I looked in the mirror. He was nothing mo... AMY LICHTENHAN I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien sme... BEN KATCHOR He was always a joke-teller. You name a kind of joke and he told it. He had one for every occasion. ... FRANK LOTT It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versail... HANS FRANK At first I was in disbelief. I thought it was a dream actually, another odd dream in this whole nigh... ED LONEY I am not a great singer and I am not a great dancer, but I am a great actress, and nobody ever let m... BETTY HUTTON The games that we've won have been close. We've had to go to our closer every time, so it was good t... DENNIS HEALY ... he had always wondered why the sensations one felt in dreamas were so much more intense than any... AYN RAND Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When... PATRICK ROTHFUSS We're working on ways to motivate. Transform our summer learning into something they can use in ever... JULIE DRENNON I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goa... ALEX GUERRERO Since he was a young man, he's gotten into little scrapes. And it seems like every one had alcohol i... MARTIN SHEERER The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in tot... OLIVER STONE The need continues to be staggering. In a land with more landmines than there are people, there is a... JOHN DENNIS I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I&... ALBERT BROOKS For people who had struggled for every step forward, we didn’t have one regret, and we wouldn’t ... JAMIE MCGUIRE Karl was no glamour boy. But even during this first meeting I discovered he had something better. Th... AIDAN CHAMBERS It was our worst nightmare realized. They hadn't played well for two games and we had played well fo... GAIL HARTIGAN Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to hims... NEIL GAIMAN We were one and done on every shot it seemed (in the first half), and they had a second chance on ev... CHAD CARLSON He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search ... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress... CURTIS MAYFIELD I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more tha... ALICE HOFFMAN In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know wh... TIM BERNERS-LEE I had to imagine this was the dream of every good person - to find the world in need of the thing yo... PATRICK CARMAN It had happened. I had brought the dream out into reality and it had dissolved. It was just a dream ... JAMES FRANCO The little boy who never grew up, He trapped the frog and kills the rat, He flew a kite, t... QUETZAL Don't dream it, be it. TIM CURRY The problem was that it went down the alley for about six blocks and the whole alley was full of deb... JIM BURNS You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER We had a lot of stuff in storage we'd planned to use. SANDY SOARES When I was 11 or 12 - a young boy in Japan - one of my older brothers took me to a sushi restaurant.... NOBU MATSUHISA No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening f... GEORGE W. BUSH
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RICHARD PRESTON The seeds of a redwood are released from cones that are about the size of olives. The heartwood of t... RICHARD PRESTON Whatever team they are going to bring they are playing together longer than some of the teams here. ... PRESTON GOMEZ My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned a... DOUGLAS PRESTON Life is an adventure! So live it up! L.M. PRESTON Believe it or not, yeah. They?re big and athletic and they?re very physical. PRESTON EARLY Life's a circle. There are no lines we can cross. F.K. PRESTON [In the 911 call Grayston made around 3:40 a.m. that day, he said:] He was going to blow my brains o... BRUCE PRESTON The deceased, while he and the accused were drinking together . . . began handling a shotgun, BRUCE PRESTON I am satisfied, upon reading the 911 tapes . . . the charge of manslaughter cannot be sustained, BRUCE PRESTON I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids. KELLY PRESTON We need to build off what we've been doing and clean up our mistakes on offense. I feel we've sort o... DOUG PRESTON We've got to play a lot better defense than we did in the first game. Obviously, we're facing a team... DOUG PRESTON They have a lot of quickness. They have some very good backs. They're really explosive, much the sam... DOUG PRESTON It was disappointing. For whatever reason, we didn't get it done. We didn't play with a lot of confi... DOUG PRESTON Overall, it was night and day from last week. As bad as we were last week, we were good this week. I... DOUG PRESTON We need to clean that up. You just can't do that against anyone. DOUG PRESTON Jeff VandeGrift has been in control and has gotten most of the reps. He played a lot better last wee... DOUG PRESTON 'First Light' is nonfiction, a true story about astronomers who are looking for light coming... RICHARD PRESTON I had actually finished the manuscript of 'The Wild Trees' and turned it in to Random House ... RICHARD PRESTON I like being able to marry the actor and the technician inside of me. It's really fulfilling. It... CARRIE PRESTON I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life. KELLY PRESTON A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball p... RICHARD PRESTON I got my first big paycheck for 'My Best Friend's Wedding.' This was in the days when yo... CARRIE PRESTON Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her... CARRIE PRESTON When I hit the big fish, I started shaking. PRESTON CLARK It was a tough way to lose. We really felt we had a chance to stay close to them in the mile relay, ... DARREN PRESTON We've been working out for three weeks, and we've got some good numbers. But most of the kids are yo... DARREN PRESTON Scrapping hardware that is three-quarters complete is, I think, sinful, PRESTON BURCH He's a good player and he wouldn't be here if he wasn't. GRANT PRESTON We need to be more physical and we need to sustain our blocks longer. If I was a backup and was goin... GRANT PRESTON Dreams are memories. Memories are dreams. But my time with you hasn’t become a dream j... F.K. PRESTON I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's c... BILLY PRESTON I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that ki... BILLY PRESTON Isn't it true that if you stare into the eyes of a cobra, the fear has another side to it? The fear ... RICHARD PRESTON They take a much longer-term view of the returns from the assets they buy. MARK PRESTON