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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
Barbara Jordan
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Beverley Nichols
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.
Sutton Foster
Tags: People Me Really
We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.
Charles Dance
Tags: Time You Out
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Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.


Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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I have to do draft after draft... It takes me a long time, but I love doing it, and I have to do it every day, or I feel slack.
Donald Hall
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As long as I'm learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don't feel old; I feel in my head and in my heart - I don't know, ageless!
Pat Mitchell
I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family, et cetera.
Donald Trump
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One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.


Willard Van Orman Quine
Tags: Man Another Book
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Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.


Morrissey
You can't judge an album by a single song; it's like judging a book by only reading a single chapter.
Trevor Rabin
Tags: You Like Only
Time for me is double-edged: every day brings me further from the low of my last cancer relapse, but every day also brings me closer to the next cancer recurrence - and eventually, death. Perhaps later than I think, but certainly sooner than I desire.
Paul Kalanithi
Tags: Time Death Me
I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn't find me when he sold my book. He finally found me.
Daniel Woodrell
Tags: Me Had He
People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'
Alan Moore
Tags: People Me Out
If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.
Shaun White
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So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.


Robert Plant
Tags: Time Long Having
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I think to love somebody every day for a long period of time is the most romantic thing you can do.


Nick Zano
Tags: Time Romantic You
I really didn't have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn't take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.
Paula Deen
Tags: Me Really Up