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To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.
George Saunders
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I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
Larry Buchanan
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I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.


Cam Gigandet
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
Omar Sharif
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When men change, maybe Bond will change. But let's wait. I'm not holding my breath.


Barbara Broccoli
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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.


Rudyard Kipling
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.
Leonard Susskind
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.


Walter Bagehot
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Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.
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In a way, Strandbeests have turned into migration animals, and the step counter gives them an idea of where they are. While counting their steps, they know more or less where they are between Kijkduin and Scheveningen.
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There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.
Wes Anderson
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
Amelia Barr
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Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.


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In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.


Althea Gibson
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Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.
Sharon Salzberg
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Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.
Jeffrey Tate
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana
I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.
Gordon Parks
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Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
J. Philippe Rushton
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It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.
Summer Altice
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