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When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.


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EDGAR WRIGHT Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.
EDGAR WRIGHT I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned ...
JOE WRIGHT I WUV FOOD
~Bricks+Skittles+Oreos=MY LIFE~
DORTEA WRIGHT You can buy business by selling below cost to drive new sales and a lot of time companies will do th...
ALAN WRIGHT If they run a promotion and have a real low price, then that's going to lower in the whole area the ...
ALAN WRIGHT You're competing against the guy across the street and so the market is set by the local competition...
ALAN WRIGHT It was a poor match and a lot of the anglers who took part found it difficult to catch.
ALAN WRIGHT Now I have received an invoice for the whole period from 2003 to date. Again my email was not answer...
ALAN WRIGHT We continue to face logistical issues in getting fuel to Pilot Travel Centers and some short-term in...
ALAN WRIGHT A tall officer was able to grab his ankles. He was about one or two steps from getting away.
ALAN WRIGHT Refineries in Texas did not take a direct hit from Rita, but the energy grids in that area were effe...
ALAN WRIGHT It is unclear when refining capacity will be restored, but it is estimated these refineries will be ...
ALAN WRIGHT Prices on the wholesale market have been up sharply the past several days. As a retailer, we have fi...
ALAN WRIGHT Man has been adjudged a social animal.
FRANCES WRIGHT Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unkn...
FRANCES WRIGHT If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetua...
FRANCES WRIGHT Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
FRANCES WRIGHT Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
FRANCES WRIGHT It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advan...
FRANCES WRIGHT He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed,...
FRANCES WRIGHT The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
FRANCES WRIGHT It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the...
FRANCES WRIGHT