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The main influence on voters should be a series of robust debates among the candidates. It's a f...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portra...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the las...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comforta...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

A tennis racket lurks in my earliest memories like a sick relative who had come to live with us. Whe...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

It's much easier to get disgusted when you've already banked 20 million bucks.
DOUGLAS BRUNT

New York is big, fast, energetic, and has the most and best of everything. While it can push the sen...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

I've thought about bringing my children to retrace my own steps of the morning of September 11, ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Wall Street has played a role in everyone's life, and it has been vilified by everyone, but I th...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

I'm really troubled by the prevalence of single-sport specializations. I want my kids to do as m...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

It's common knowledge that professional athletes earn extraordinary incomes. What is less known ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Dad met Mom in 1983 during the lead-up to the 1984 games. She was an Olympic downhill skier. In thos...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

On Wall Street, every story becomes known so quickly. They are all so connected that everything diss...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.
DOUGLAS BRUNT

A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to cur...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it's going to be through word of mouth and people ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

New York can get on top of you if you don't have much money, but if you have money, it's kin...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will fee...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Don't write more than 3 hours at a time. I write three hours in the morning, 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. Ot...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Your spouse, a sibling, a friend need to read your drafts. They have to be people unafraid to tell y...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Don't copy another writer's style, because that is not authentic, and that's how it will...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

I like to write in the mornings, so I try to protect 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. for me. I can drop our older t...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

I prefer a change of surroundings anyway, and I like to be around some energy and white noise, so I ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gol...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

If you look at top players - Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi - so many had a parent who was domineering to...
DOUGLAS BRUNT We feel pretty well, we just need to keep strong nerves. We had a hard beginning. I don't know why. ...
MAUREEN BRUNT We don't have to wear as much advertising.
MAUREEN BRUNT They're still a very good team. They've beaten us before, so I wouldn't count them out.
MAUREEN BRUNT It was the best night of my life so far.
MAUREEN BRUNT We've kind of made curling our dream. If other people like it, it validates the fact that we've put ...
MAUREEN BRUNT I can't think of anything else I'd want to have on my body for the rest of my life.
MAUREEN BRUNT You can't really insult us anymore. It is an Olympic sport.
MAUREEN BRUNT It gets to you after a while. But we're going to the Olympics.
MAUREEN BRUNT

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
CAROL BURNETT I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.
CAROL ALT

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it ha...
CAROL BURNETT

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
CAROL BURNETT

We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.
CAROL BURNETT

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can sur...
CAROL BURNETT

When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.
CAROL BURNETT When I get tired, I start eating things that I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because t...
CAROL VORDERMAN

I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattres...
CAROL BURNETT The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Brist...
CAROL VORDERMAN

I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star look...
CAROL BURNETT

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be fa...
CAROL BURNETT

I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
CAROL BURNETT

I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a...
CAROL BURNETT

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking...
CAROL BURNETT

I've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what p...
CAROL BURNETT

Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, whic...
CAROL BURNETT

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
CAROL BURNETT

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - i...
CAROL BURNETT

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
CAROL BURNETT

Just scream! You vent, and the body just feels good after a good old yell.
CAROL BURNETT

I'm so happy with what has happened in my life.
CAROL BURNETT

I liked myself better when I wasn't me.
CAROL BURNETT

It is the instinctive wish of most American businesspeople, even those unlikely to be directly affec...
CAROL LOOMIS

When they are employed wisely, derivatives make the world simpler because they give their buyers an ...
CAROL LOOMIS . . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray...
CAROL GILLIGAN I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's t...
CAROL VORDERMAN

In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal ...
CAROL LOOMIS

I was a very lonely child and it's funy but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I fel...
CAROL LEE

I think we're here for each other.
CAROL BURNETT

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
CAROL BURNETT

Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your e...
CAROL LEWIS

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
CAROL LEIFER

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
CAROL BURNETT

Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the produ...
CAROL EVERTT

...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evi...
CAROL TAVRIS

The real problem between the sexes is that for men, sex is a gender-underliner, they need it for the...
CAROL CLEWLOW

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
CAROL BURNETT The product, abortion, is skillfully marketed and sold to the woman at the crisis time in her life. ...
CAROL EVERETT There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
CAROL MATTHAU

In 1980, aided by $1.5 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. government and his own pitchman rout...
CAROL LOOMIS In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and...
CAROL GILLIGAN

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of...
CAROL BELLAMY I would love to have written Roger Zelazny's first five books of 'Amber.' What a great i...
CAROL BERG And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols,...
CAROL KANE

Limited partnerships are required to amend their filings whenever important changes, such as the adm...
CAROL LOOMIS

When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had ...
CAROL BURNETT

Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base...
CAROL LOOMIS

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
CAROL BURNETT

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by a...
CAROL BURNETT There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
CAROL SHIELDS

When I'm photographing, I think - like any rescue worker who deals with tragedy - you have to ha...
CAROL GUZY I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructe...
CAROL GILLIGAN

I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
CAROL BURNETT

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to te...
CAROL BURNETT

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
CAROL BURNETT

I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out ag...
CAROL BURNETT Those with dissociative disorders face a big enough battle living as multiples and dealing with past...
CAROL BROAD There needs to be a nationwide awareness programme for all NHS staff, to educate them about dissocia...
CAROL BROAD

... in some sense, she ignored her physical self, as if her body were merely something impersonal ve...
CAROL LEE

My parents never recognized the things that for me were achievements. I was praised for the things t...
CAROL LEE I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, an abnormal decrease of sugar in the blood. Eventually I learned ...
CAROL ALT If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.
CAROL ALT I don't eat celery. I eat raw milk, cheeses.
CAROL ALT

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating th...
CAROL BELLAMY

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childles...
CAROL LEIFER But what attracted me to weeds was not their beauty, but their resilience. I mean, despite being so ...
CAROL VORVAIN More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's o...
CAROL VORDERMAN

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
CAROL BURNETT

Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.
CAROL LEIFER It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your...
CAROL ALT

The speed and trajectory of BlackRock's ascent have been breathtaking.
CAROL LOOMIS

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a ...
CAROL BURNETT

My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-roo...
CAROL BURNETT I enjoy worldbuilding very much. I generally start with an approximation. With 'Flesh and Spirit...
CAROL BERG Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
CAROL CHANNING

I had gone to nursing school at Northampton Community College in my hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylva...
CAROL GUZY

I have a whole box full of pieces of the Berlin Wall and a heart made from the barbed wire of the Ir...
CAROL GUZY

She suffered. She suffered a whole lot. And at one point I was praying for her to be released. You k...
CAROL BURNETT

When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go
CAROL BURNETT

She was a mountain girl, ... We brought some of her ashes here and placed them next to F.C. Jones. I...
CAROL BURNETT

People invite me to dinner not because I cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate grati...
CAROL BURNETT

I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
CAROL BURNETT

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
CAROL BURNETT

She said, 'Mama, if I can take it back ...,
CAROL BURNETT

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's whe...
CAROL BURNETT

I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. Th...
CAROL BURNETT

I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like M...
CAROL BURNETT

I'm hooked on Glenn Close in 'Damages.'
CAROL BURNETT

The good thing about a dealer's derivatives portfolio is that it is marked to market.
CAROL LOOMIS I believe in lieu of the Katrina situation last week it is even more important that we are prepared ...
CAROL MILLER The faculty will be a little more relaxed this semester, because we know that problems are inevitabl...
CAROL MILLER I came in Tuesday and took a tour of the building for the first time. My first impression was that E...
CAROL MILLER Many people have been able to return to their homes. We expect to spend most of today assessing dama...
CAROL MILLER People have really improved their recycling efforts.
CAROL MILLER It was very moving and extremely needed, ... We are a conservative campus where this is not talked a...
CAROL MILLER The goal is to have at least one quarter of the amount of trash that would have gone to the landfill...
CAROL MILLER So far this year we have taken in 108.5 tons of recyclable versus the estimated 65.6 tons collected ...
CAROL MILLER The students were definitely the first priority, that's why they have finished all the classrooms. T...
CAROL MILLER We could always use more, but we are getting back on schedule after the holiday.
CAROL MILLER Say you get to some place and you can't find an ATM. I will only get one or two or three days worth ...
CAROL MICKELSEN Europe is very close to what you would find in the U.S. If you're going to a very small town in Amer...
CAROL MICKELSEN [Europe is closest to North America in its density of ATMs.] ATM machines are all over the place. Th...
CAROL MICKELSEN In Poland, we could pay for groceries with a credit card. Surprisingly enough, campgrounds take char...
CAROL MICKELSEN In Poland, we could pay for groceries with a credit card, ... Surprisingly enough, campgrounds take ...
CAROL MICKELSEN Say you get to some place and you can't find an ATM, ... I will only get one or two or three days wo...
CAROL MICKELSEN Response times will be better.
CAROL MEYER You as a resident need to make yourself prepared and knowledgeable.
CAROL MEYER I'd say we're probably one of the most prepared counties in the country.
CAROL MEYER It's awesome. I thought it would be a wonderful opportunity. I very much favor the Philharmonic.
CAROL MEYER Trauma funds aren't going into the San Gabriel Valley, but paying for the trauma patients that get t...
CAROL MEYER We both do all the work, but we each have the places where we shine.
CAROL MCNEELY We think every home needs at least one, or maybe two or three, decorative rooms.
CAROL MCNEELY We tailor finishes to people's personalities.
CAROL MCNEELY We want people to know that we do more than stripes and polka dots.
CAROL MCNEELY She was a feisty woman. She was a clown. She made everyone laugh. Everyone loved to be around her.
CAROL MARSH It all happened very fast. In 10 minutes, the whole thing was gone.
CAROL MARSH This is how close we were.
CAROL MARSH

Then we left, just me running with my sister, the wolves at our backs.

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