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“Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.”

“Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.”

People Thinking Made Real Fake Spontaneous

Author:Stewart Lee

“Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.”

Way Writing Fighting Strong Emotion Army Soldier Friction

Author:Etgar Keret

“Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell the domestic rights, which can be quite low, but it's enough to push you over the line. And you get a tax credit on top of that, and then you cobble it together with private equity or gap financing and things like that.”

States Enough Together Film Lines Rights Taxes Lows Sells Credit Gaps Equity Financing Private Equity Indie Films

Author:Noel Clarke

“Generally, appreciation means some blend of thankfulness, admiration, approval, and gratitude. In the financial world, something that "appreciates" grows in value. With the power tool of appreciation, you get the benefit of both perspectives: as you learn to be consistently thankful and approving, your life will grow in value.”

World Mean Values Grows Perspective Gratitude Benefits Appreciate Tools Financial Appreciation Admiration Approval Consistently Thankfulness Approving Power Tools

Author:Doc Childre

“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”

People Has Beens Real Matter Eye Hair Ugly Joints Children's Books Real You Catchy Shabby Wedding Ceremony Children's Literature Children Book Children Literature Writing Children's Books Becoming Real

Author:Margery Williams

Source: The Velveteen Rabbit: Or, How Toys Become Real

“Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.”

Kind Whole Car Behavior Built Dealer

Author:G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

“Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.”

Common Higher Common Sense

Author:Juvenal

“Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.”

Matter Marriage Dictatorship

Author:Gloria Allred

“Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.”

Age Law Church Members Elders Prescribing

Author:William Brewster

“Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It's just a painful business to be in. It's just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.”

Want Painful My Time Healthcare Time Heals

Author:Sergey Brin

“Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.”

Ifs Way Stories Wanted Projects Hollywood Surprise Scripts Commit Surprise Me

Author:Sherilyn Fenn

“Generally, I am just myself, a crazy John Belushi type. But I'm not comparing myself to him. I think I am against stereotype. Generally Asian guys are more quiet - they study and have a good work ethic. Generally, I have none of those things.”

Thinking Guy Study Crazy Type Quiet Ethics Compare Good Work Stereotype Work Ethic Asian Good Work Ethic

Author:Bobby Lee

“Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.”

Looks Painting Concerned Busy Simplicity Conception

Author:Jasper Johns

Source: Jasper Johns: A Retrospective

“Generally, I don't attempt to produce a certain number of words a day. The discipline is to work whether you are producing a lot or not, because the day you produce a lot is not necessarily the day you do your best work. So it's trying to do it as regularly as you can without making it - without imposing too rigid a timetable on your self. That would be my ideal.”

Trying Self Would Be Certain Numbers Produce Discipline Ideals Best Work Imposing Timetables

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Generally, I don't want to do things. I feel lazy and unmotivated. It's only when an idea grabs hold of me and I can't get rid of it, when I try not to think about it and yet it's ambushing me all the time. I'm thrown up against a wall. The idea is saying to me, "You have to pay attention to me because I am going to be the future of your life for the next year or two or five." Then I submit. I get into it. It's something that becomes so necessary to me that I can't live without doing that project.”

Thinking Trying Attention Wall Pay Attention Lazy Submit

Author:Paul Auster

“Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.”

Ends Wall Stronger Thrown Drummer

Author:Isaac Hanson

“Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.”

Grateful Be Grateful

Author:Katey Sagal

“Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out in the text one way or another.”

Way Writing Energy Fun One Way Having Fun Dynamism

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.”

Instinct

Author:Robyn Hitchcock

“Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.”

Able Lines Sleep Mistake Mouths Making Mistakes Going To Sleep

Author:Brent Spiner

“Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.”

Easier Islands Isolation Despotism

Author:Albert Camus

“Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.”

Thinking Life Is My Own Mistake Mistakes And Learning

Author:Taylor Momsen

“Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.”

Stupid Smart Being Stupid

Author:Michelle Sagara

Source: Chronicles of Elantra bundle: Cast in Shadow\Cast in Courtlight\Cast in Secret

“Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.”

Kind Hard Play Type Fragile Ethereal

Author:Adelaide Clemens

“Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.”

Littles Enough Guy Reading Enjoy Fiction My Time Nonfiction Fiction And Nonfiction

Author:Peter Morgan

“Generally, I start by observing the existing and popular narratives in my social spheres and media, and the pressures I face in my own life experiences. As someone who is "newly" trans, I am constantly thinking about what the dominant narratives are around transness, how my work can push against these narratives, and how it already falls into these traps.”

Thinking Faces Fall Social My Own Media Pressure Narrative Spheres Life Experience Traps Dominant Observing Trans My Own Life Constantly Thinking

Author:Vivek Shraya

“Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.”

Humans Creatures Behavior Despise Human Behavior

Author:Sidney Poitier

“Generally, I think America is America. America has been through suffering like other countries, but America will come up. I have no doubt. It's just going to bounce. You know, you have ups and downs.”

Thinking Knows Has Beens Country America Suffering Doubt Come Up No Doubt Other Countries Ups & Downs Bounce

Author:Ivana Trump

“Generally, I think people are just going through the motions now. There's so much stuff that people are doing today that has already been done. I kind of like that new Savages record, but I don't know why they take themselves so seriously.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Done Today Stuff Records Savages

Author:Zachary Cole Smith

“Generally, I wake up, honestly it's creepy, but I wake up around 4:20.”

Wake Up Honestly Creepy

Author:Kevin Smith

“Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.”

Guy Mellow

Author:Shaun White

“Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.”

Ifs Persons Jobs

Author:Britt Ekland

“Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.”

Sound Bounds Noise Conception

Author:Hugh Hopper

“Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.”

Knows Film Known Fit Behave Civilians

Author:Joe Wright

“Generally, if I can't be true to the creator's intention and spirit, I will probably shy away from working on a character.”

Ifs I Can Character Spirit Intention Creator Being True Shy

Author:Darwyn Cooke

“Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the Pornographers would do it. If it was kind of moody and more lyrical, then maybe it would be a Destroyer song. Anything that's really lyrically driven I would keep for Destroyer.”

Ifs Kind Would Be Song Behinds Rocks Driven Bunch Rock And Roll Momentum Lyrical Destroyers Moody

Author:Dan Bejar

“Generally, if you look at present-day trends, you can predict the future. Very few people do that, because I've been told that only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are now. When Stalin was alive, most people could not imagine that he would ever die. Same under Brezhnev.”

People Thinking Imagine Overwhelming Imagine That

Author:Vladimir Voinovich

“Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.”

Ifs Writing Book Reason Seems Doors Interviews Request Writing A Book

Author:James Rollins

“Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.”

People Humans Young Public Life Endeavour

Author:Salman Khurshid

“Generally, it's all of this subconscious stuff. I didn't even know what Lizzobangers was about until it was mastered and I got to listen to it.”

Knows Stuff Subconscious

Author:Lizzo

“Generally, it's not good to be engaged directly with the political system unless you are qualified. It`s a very depressing business, the way politics works. You get stuck into it, but then, at some point, you have to walk away. I had to walk away, because it's like this dark, black energy void. There are some people who have dedicated their lives to living in that energy void, but I can't do it. I just can't go there. It feels like you're treading water too much when you do. It's a crazy thing.”

“Generally, management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. And to control many is the same as to control few. This is a matter of formations and signals.”

Matter Organization Management Signals Formation

Author:Sun Tzu

“Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.”

Writing Happens Action Absorbing Everything Happens For A Reason

Author:Graham Nash

“Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone.”

Want Stills Dies Courses Grows Roles Written Media Havens Tvs Stones Screens Primaries Written Word Masons Headstone Hitchhiking

Author:Douglas Adams

“Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.”

People Ifs Country Reason Running Young Our Lives Particular Strategy Entrepreneur Corporations No Reason Sixty Ceo Seventies Older People Life Span

Author:Cynthia Kenyon

“Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.”

People Interest Animal Dog Lover

Author:Roger Caras

Source: A Dog Is Listening: The Way Some of Our Closest Friends View Us

“Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.”

People World Self Whole Spiritual Perception Whole World Clarity

Author:Jaggi Vasudev

“Generally, Putin thinks of himself as Christian. I don't think he is, but he pretends to think that he is. In terms of his ideology he's more like Bush Jr. But he's less ideological. He's thinking more, 'How to stay in power?'”

Thinking Christian Term Ideology Ideological

Author:Ilya Ponomarev

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