Nancy Kress
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SUZY MENKES JOE THEISMANN DOUGLAS COUPLAND Wayne is back as long as he wants to be coach. I don't know if he's coming back for just one year, o... MARK WELLS They sent five guys to the boards. We knew that as long as we could get the rebound, we would have a... GAVIN GRANT By and large, I'm in the same boat as other inventors. If we're lucky, of the 10 or 15 items... RALPH BAER Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren&... DAVID GILL The surprise to me with Maryland's profile isn't that they're not in, but that they're even as high ... JOE LUNARDI DAVID A. ADLER The emphasis is just trying to get him signed as soon as possible. Everything after that is just a d... DARCY REGIER The charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in jail, ... This is an agreed-upon disposition whe... JOHN PICKARD Each plane was making two or three missions a day. Some of them were just terrible. They were gettin... DOLORIA CHAPIN It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal... PATRICIA HEATON I'm tickled. Our goal was to have three region champions, finish third as a team and have all five o... CHRIS ADAMS RALPH WALDO EMERSON I'm often given parts that aren't as big as they are colorful, but people remember them. Whe... DENHOLM ELLIOTT GRETCHEN RUBIN DOROTHY ALLISON LOUIS SACHAR WENDY COPE WENDY COPE I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from th... IAN SOMERHALDER We felt for two or three possessions, we wanted to pull them out of the zone. We thought we'd try th... KYLE BROOKS TOBA BETA STEPHEN HAWKING Pick your words carefully as it has the power to make the sentence beautiful or ugly..... ADIL ADAM MEMON Being able to put law in place to keep better taps on them as far as their probation for one, two or... JAVIER SAMBRANO LEONARD SUSSKIND To see something marvellous with your own eyes –that’s wonderful enough. ALASTAIR REYNOLDS It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboardin... ROB MCELHENNEY RYAN GOSLING If we move two or three spots, that would be one thing, but I can't see us moving into the top five.... PHIL SAVAGE MARC ANDREESSEN AUGUST WILSON THOMAS GIBSON There just aren't many little guys who are good actors. They don't get the training; they do... KENNY BAKER ROBIN MORGAN BRYCE COURTENAY PAWAN MISHRA DIETER F. UCHTDORF Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes t... BILL BRANDT Even if it is just for a day or two, it will give them some money to carry on. FRANK FORD ALEXANDRA PETRI BOB WOODWARD At least two or three of them had been camping outside of her house for five days. MARCEL PARISEAU MILEY CYRUS Lent is a time of prayer, but not for gloomy faces. Some people choose to give things up, but that's... DIANE ARCHER It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as a... WAYNE ROGERS They're already talking about adding on or building a new one. TODD ABBOTT STEVEN ERIKSON Collectively, as an industry, there's no right or wrong answers. Whatever works for an individual is... JACQUES COUTURE ALLEN TATE S. T. JOSHI You watch that Dog show, you see this guy apprehend two or three guys in an hour. But you don't see ... JOE INTISO As a book editor, you need to pitch every one of your books again and again, dozens of times, for mo... CHRIS PAVONE JAMES DYSON I think we showed a brief flash or two against Bryan Station as to how we are capable of playing, bu... MAC WHITAKER The kids felt like the burden was lifted after not beating them for two or three years. BRENT DERUYTER JOHN RIDLEY We have seen that English words have meaning in a sentence because of their position in the sentence... CHARLTON LAIRD TAYLOR KITSCH DOROTHY ALLISON Every point counts, whether it's a three-point decision or a pin, or trying to avoid a pin. When we'... JEFF HICKOK If you can stay an extra day or two, maybe leave a day or two earlier. It'll make your flying experi... AMY ZIFF You can add a degree or two each day. IVORY SMALL We knew they were going to make a run, we just didn't have enough firepower to stop them. They are a... ALAN EADS SHELLY-ANN FRASER-PRYCE DESIDERIUS ERASMUS LETITIA BALDRIGE Do as much as you can ahead of time, and allow yourself a little extra time each morning for that un... BARRY IZSAK Look, I was only given a year or two to come up with tunes for this record, and when all but eight o... ALAN GORRIE Antler quality was certainly up this year. I've seen the evidence at two or three wildlife check sta... BOB MCANALLY I don't have a typical filmmaker background. I didn't grow up with a super eight camera or a... F. GARY GRAY There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because th... ERIN MCKEAN The research shows that if you only have one, two or three blacks [on a jury] or as many as four, th... DAVID BALDUS You may think you have 100 moles in your yard, but it may be one or two. One or more can make an awf... JIM HARDING M. J. ROSE You can do something as simple as drinking two cups of water before a meal to fill your belly a bit ... KATHY FRESTON BILL GATES The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty mu... JAY MCINERNEY People are looking to replace their firewall, or add in-line antivirus, or are looking to add intrus... ANTHONY JAMES MARGARET ATWOOD DESIDERIUS ERASMUS No one is right, or wrong. They are just being themselves. Right or wrong is your perception of them... AZMATH PASHA JAMES DYSON
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