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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody'... ZE FRANK If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're je... CRAIG GROESCHEL I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to... ZAKK WYLDE With moviemaking, the audience always has to keep asking, 'What happens next?' If you have t... JOSH FOX Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you ha... LOUIS C. K. If you don't cut the cake in pieces and just eat the whole cake, then you only had one piece. ANONYMOUS If you don't succeed on your own ground, then there's no reason to succeed. Unless, of cours... ALBERT BROOKS You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do. CRAIG GROESCHEL The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI I think it really indicates how important it is that people pay attention to the lifeboat drill. Thi... HOWARD MOSES If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to... DREW HOUSTON How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL When that begins to happen you just have to pay attention to the call of what's going on in society. DENNIS GREEN Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA Everything you need to survive in this world lives right inside you, you just have to be still for a... SUPER GIRL Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha... CRAIG GROESCHEL Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often ... ALEX TABARROK Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you h... EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you w... BILL O'REILLY I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you w... BILL O'REILLY If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingr... ELON MUSK All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can rea... PAULO COELHO If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you&... ERIC ROBERTS Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if y... OCTAVIA BUTLER I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay a... DON MATTINGLY I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's... MICHAEL SHANNON All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know... WALTER MOSLEY If you aren't just a little bit depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's goin... PETE WENTZ He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL If you sit in a room and think you're the only one that needs to be loved, then you have a big p... AKSEL HENNIE You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. Th... DAVID MORSE I just love cake, confetti cake, to be specific. It has little colored candies inside the cake, and ... CHANNING TATUM If you didn't have a record company or a PR company that was really out there pushing you then you c... GARY NUMAN A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... RICK RIORDAN So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you st... DANNY DEVITO Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ... JOHN M SHEEHAN Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's ... CHRISTOPHER YOUNG The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they ... TERRY PRATCHETT I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're goi... DAVID R. ELLIS Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and ... LANA TURNER I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's go... SAMANTHA BEE If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any ... MELISSA ROSENBERG I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic ... AL FELDSTEIN I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard... BEN SCHNETZER When you're in a rehearsal room, it's like getting into a car and going on a long journey wi... KATE FLEETWOOD There's a green room at the Oscars. It's really small, very warm, and it's really fun be... CHRISSY TEIGEN Scholl Velvet Smooth Express Pedi is just great. You get yourself in a hot bath to soften up your sk... ABBEY CLANCY When you have a watch on, it just sets everything off. It's the icing on the cake when it comes ... B.O.B Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you&... BENNY BLANCO If you can have a great story that people can follow the mystery and get the suspense, and then you ... JASON STATHAM In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt... VIGGO MORTENSEN If you have the right horses and the right team, that's the way to succeed. But you have to work... ADOLFO CAMBIASO When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games a... RODDY DOYLE I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C. It's really hard to go out knowing that you are going to be the center of attention just about a... DARLENE CATES If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're wri... PETER MAXWELL DAVIES All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of ... BILLY PORTER It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the ... RICHARD M. NIXON At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in th... MEHMET OZ You going from being on your toes on every play at second base and then suddenly you are just out th... BRANDON WATSON You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love.... JOHN CUSACK I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in pr... KEVIN GATES Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words. SYED SHARUKH So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like... ADAM RICH We are as gods to beasts of the field. We order the time of their birth and the time of their death.... TERRY PRATCHETT I love to eat everything and you pretty much can - a little piece of something fattening is not goin... JENNIFER LOPEZ It's very important in a restaurant to really do the right hiring because there's no restaur... WOLFGANG PUCK Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go... JOE SACCO If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with th... BOB LATTA If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make... JAMES MCBRIDE Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, real... CHANG-RAE LEE Online one day, you log in, and you realise, 'This is not me.' Everything you're posting... EVAN SPIEGEL Having diabetes doesn't mean that you can never enjoy a piece of cake or pie. It does mean that you ... SUSAN WALKER I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very... CHAD HARBACH You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to ... MARY KAY ASH Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably cra... PATTI SMITH What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that... PETER CAREY Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read... KEVIN J. ANDERSON I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dia... ZOE KAZAN You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you,... PHIL ANSELMO You have what is right in front of you. You survive and you have your family. That's the whole w... ELIZABETH MITCHELL My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is g... ADAM SANDLER When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how yo... ABBY WAMBACH Night in and night out I look forward to playing the other team's top player. You have to pay attent... BRUCE BOWEN
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They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ... TERRY PRATCHETT The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who t... TERRY PRATCHETT I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said i... TERRY PRATCHETT In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. TERRY PRATCHETT No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head ... TERRY PRATCHETT Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a w... TERRY PRATCHETT At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings a... TERRY PRATCHETT Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. TERRY PRATCHETT I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of ... TERRY PRATCHETT The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valle... TERRY PRATCHETT She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their ... TERRY PRATCHETT His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability wh... TERRY PRATCHETT Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded ... TERRY PRATCHETT Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We ... TERRY PRATCHETT The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last ... TERRY PRATCHETT Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. TERRY PRATCHETT Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect. TERRY PRATCHETT The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes af... TERRY PRATCHETT Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying iso... TERRY PRATCHETT Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be ... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantasti... TERRY PRATCHETT Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when yo... TERRY PRATCHETT The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf ... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ar... TERRY PRATCHETT "Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary... 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TERRY PRATCHETT For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) ... TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his l... TERRY PRATCHETT In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. TERRY PRATCHETT Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. TERRY PRATCHETT The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. TERRY PRATCHETT God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which migh... TERRY PRATCHETT That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I... TERRY PRATCHETT