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We've pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds... It's soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.
Chris Avellone
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I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.
Malala Yousafzai
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Old age is a shipwreck.


Charles de Gaulle
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We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Dean Acheson
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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.


Guy de Maupassant
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I back people who I think will be seeking help and advice. These are the best entrepreneurs.


Audrey MacLean
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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
Edvard Munch
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Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
Sylvia Earle
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I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
Bede Griffiths
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Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.


Tommy Lee Jones
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.
Neil Gaiman
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He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.
Max Stirner
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I've had two pedicures in my life, and they were glorious.


Willie Geist
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One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.
Janelle Monae
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As an artist, you make music. And if you see people who don't know how to market your music, you get involved in it. Otherwise, what you want to accomplish 'gets lost in translation' - no pun intended.
Jay-Z
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.


Samuel Johnson
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Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
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Since I left basketball, and my wife, it's been a glorious feast of lovemaking.


Rick Fox
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Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.


Timothy Radcliffe
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Mummy always wanted the five children, and she knew she couldn't look after them all because she was this absolutely glorious woman who loved going to parties and going to the races, and she just didn't have time.
Celia Imrie
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