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“I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.”

Thinking Wells Reality Watches Written Tvs Pure News Entertainment Nonsense Rubbish Dallas Well Written Melodrama Dross

Author:Larry Hagman

“I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.”

Offers Buttons His Love Bargains

Author:Leonard Cohen

Source: Book of Mercy

“I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.”

Religion Religious Salvation Dose

Author:Bob Dylan

“I bargained with Life for a penny, and Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store; Life is a just employer. He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid”

Life Philosophy Poetry Wealth Learning Poem Poets Wages Ageing Hire

Author:Jessie B. Rittenhouse

“I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store.”

Life Pay Stores Evening Pennies Think And Grow Rich Think Rich Grow Rich

Author:Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

Source: The Door of Dreams

“I bargained with Life for a penny, and Life would pay no more. However I begged at the evening when I counted my scanty store. For Life is a just employer, he gives you what you ask. But once you have set the wages, why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, only to learn, dismayed, that any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.”

Inspirational Giving Life Is Asks Pay Positive Thinking Bears Tasks Paid Stores Evening Wages Employers Pennies Think And Grow Rich Think Rich Grow Rich Dismayed

Author:Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

Source: The moving tide: new and selected lyrics by Jessie B. Rittenhouse...

“I barged through the palace, dripping a trail of blood behind me as I held the dead bird by the neck.”

Blood Duck Dead Duck

Author:Alwyn Hamilton

Source: Traitor to the Throne

“I barrel into his arms, my mouth connecting with his. Seizing him. Feeling him. Loving him.”

Love Sweet K A Tucker Kacey Cleary Ten Tiny Breaths Trent Emerson Trent Kacey

Author:K.A. Tucker

Source: Ten Tiny Breaths

“I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.”

Decision Independent Labels Guts

Author:Taylor Swift

“I base all my characters on hair.”

Character Hair

Author:Patrick Dempsey

“I base all of my music around finding positivity in every thing & every situation.”

Situation Findings Positivity

Author:Mod Sun

“I base all of my relationships on trust, and I try to prove that trust to begin with, and so there isn't any question.”

Trying Prove

Author:Chris Soules

“I base everything on my own life experiences as a female. I start from there, and then I look for characters and settings that I think are cinematic, where I can use symbols and imagery to tell a story.”

Thinking Looks I Can Character Stories Use My Own Female Setting Settings Symbols Life Experience Imagery My Own Life Cinematic

Author:Anna Biller

“I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.”

World Building Highest

Author:Felix Baumgartner

“I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.”

Jesus Statues Rio Rio De Janeiro

Author:Felix Baumgartner

“I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.”

Fashion Style Taste Witty Life And Love Funny Inspirational Modern Life Fashionable Itching

Author:Gilda Radner

“I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.”

Expectations Luck Calculations

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I base my happiness on the relationships in my life. I would rather have the absolute worst acting career or, I don't know, whatever the worst job would be... picking up radioactive material? I would much rather have that and a good marriage than a horrible marriage and a brilliant career. That's just not a trade off I'd make.”

Acting Worst Trade Brilliant Horrible Good Marriage

Author:Chris Demetral

“I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.”

Thinking Want Song Fans Picks Track

Author:Tyler Farr

“I base the roles I choose depending on the characters. That's just how I'm gonna run my career. So if it's a good role I'm gonna take it whether it be fantasy, or whether it be realistic or fiction, anything.”

Ifs Character Running Fiction Careers Roles Fantasy Realistic

Author:Josh Hutcherson

“I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.”

World States Sports Brazil Sao Paulo

Author:Emerson Fittipaldi

“I basically - I don't like tattoos, unless you're a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That's - those are people who should have tattoos.”

People Should Guy Military Should Have Tattoo Firefighter

Author:Denis Leary

“I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.”

Way Mother Girl Mom My Way Strict Cheerleader Cheerleading Bad Girl

Author:Sandra Bullock

“I basically believe that until China stop stealing our intellectual property, and until they stop keeping our companies out that do good things, the amount we will gain from export jobs is minimized, and the amount we lose in middle class incomes is maximized.”

Believe Jobs Loses Company Class Middle Amount Intellectual Gains Property Good Things China Stealing Income Middle Class Intellectual Property

Author:Charles Schumer

“I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.”

Way Should Believe Care Plans Industry Return Profit Medical Reform Health Care Shareholders Nonprofits Health Reform Medical Insurance

Author:Dianne Feinstein

“I basically camped out for a year and a half in an Airstream trailer on the beach out in front of the studio. I had no idea what I was gonna do, what kind of album I was gonna make - all I knew was that I wanted to sit there and just take in whatever came.”

Years Kind Ideas Wanted Half Fronts Albums Studios Beach No Idea Trailers

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.”

Wells Children My Sister Aunt Great Aunt

Author:Ann B. Davis

“I basically don't think that the way we do things is that dependent on one resource, such as oil. There can be different kinds of engines for cars. I think that solar heating, wind heating can substitute for a lot of uses for oil. I'd like to see those things happen because they are more sustainable in any case. But I do not think that running out of oil is not going to bother us that much. I think we have got to be rescued by something or we really are going down a slippery slope.”

Thinking Way Kind Different Use Happens Running Cases Car Wind Resources Oil Things Happen Bother Dependent Substitutes Engines Different Kinds Slippery Slopes Heating Slippery Slope

Author:Jane Jacobs

“I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.”

Thinking Wells Character Mother Father Names My Own Changed Meetings Main Characters Maggie

Author:Matt Groening

“I basically eat a lot of proteins, and I've been eating smaller portions of food. I try to eat all locally raised and organic produce.”

Trying Produce Eating Raised Portions Protein

Author:Norman Reedus

“I basically enjoy doing films that are about something, that have complex roles that I can sink my teeth into. Basically, I gravitate to things that scare me. They might be things that I don't think I know how to play. I like trying to find within me where this character may exist. Whether is it is a fictional character or not I am not motivated by that. It is more about how challenging it is. It is just so happens that the more high profile things I have done have been historical characters.”

“I basically expect anything. Isn't that wild? I used to surprise myself a lot: certain moves, how I'd get out of trouble. But at some point, you accept the talent that you have, you accept your creativity.”

Moving Used Certain Accepting Creativity Trouble Talent Surprise

Author:Michael Jordan

“I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Kind Age Girl Term Interest Groups Special Presses Gender Teenage Chicks Special Interests Teenage Girl Interest Groups Being A Girl Special Interest Groups

Author:Ani DiFranco

“I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.”

Two Three Hours Week Training Weight Gym Three Times Weight Training

Author:Takeru Kobayashi

“I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.”

Ifs Writing Long Ideas Wanted Song My Own Tough Be Good

Author:Jason Mraz

“I basically had the same body when I was 14 and that was weird. But I think I had really good parents. I got really lucky.”

Thinking Body Parent Lucky Good Parent

Author:Emily Ratajkowski

“I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.”

Knows Giving Kind Mother Process Voice Type Needed Dues Trials Piano Nevertheless Personal Life Tribulation Therapeutic Trials And Tribulations

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.”

Four Groups Century Bread Meat Diets Cheese Navy Potatoes 19th Century Stout Bread And Cheese Meat And Potatoes

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I basically have two ways I start writing. Either I'll start with something about myself, or something that happened to me that seemed important, or I'll start with some idea I have that doesn't have much to do with me. But one will always lead to the other.”

Way Writing Two Important Ideas Happened Two Ways

Author:Chelsea Martin

“I basically just make films that interest me. And I don't want to make the same film twice, you know? But I've never found a franchise, so... I guess I'm lot poorer because of that, but... what astonishes me is that, at my age, I can still find things that interest me. And that's tremendous.”

Knows Want Stills I Can Age Film Found Interest

Author:Stephen Frears

“I basically learned that you must get out of your losses immediately. It's not merely a matter of how much you can afford to risk on a given trade, but you also have to consider how many potential future winners you might miss because of the effect of the larger loss on your mental attitude and trading size.”

Matter Might Given Loss Attitude Risk Effects Missing Trade Size Winner Trading Mental Attitude Your Loss

Author:Randy McKay

“I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.”

Way Wanted Left Machines California Texas Cash Palaces Vegas No Money Malls Slot Machines

Author:Krista Allen

“I basically lived through what could have been my downfall and survived it, so whatever comes my way, I'm ready.”

Way Has Beens Ready My Way Survived Could Have Been Downfall

Author:Donnis

“I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.”

Ifs Needs Mind Looks Objects Ego

Author:Nolan Bushnell

“I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun... except hot dogs.”

Dog Hot Pretentious Hot Dog Buns

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

Source: Notes from my Kitchen Table: Enhanced Ebook Edition

“I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that whether it's Indian or it's Western. But in India, I think it's limited to filler music unfortunately. That's one thing I want to push in India where we have the infrastructure of an orchestra where you play Indian melodies with an orchestra and something different for a universal audience. It requires a lot of work from me.”

Thinking Want Different Play Whole Together Culture Audience One Thing Musician Universal India Western Indian Melody Orchestra Infrastructure Classical Music Fillers Playing Together

Author:A. R. Rahman

“I basically made the movie from the crew's suggestions. For one scene, I wanted some kids' toys against the wall in Mikey's room, to give the scene texture, and we tried a field hockey stick. It looked really good to me, until someone had to say that in America, field hockey is more of a girl's game. Gradually I got tuned into the world - that happens on every movie.”

World Giving Made Happens Kids Wanted America Girl Games Rooms Fields Wall Scene Sticks Hockey Toys Crew Suggestions Texture Mikey Hockey Sticks Field Hockey

Author:Ang Lee

“I basically modeled my way through college, doing local runway shows in L.A. that don't pay a lot and a couple of shows in N.Y. and S.F., and I probably made the same as the average 19-year-old waiter; I just worked less and was around beautiful girls, so it was nice.”

Way Years Made Shows Beautiful Girl Pay Nice College Couple Average Locals My Way Waiter Runway Beautiful Girl

Author:Mehcad Brooks

“I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in a state of anxiety.”

Feels Writing Kind Persons States Fun Lucky Anxiety Seeking Relaxed Happy Go Lucky

Author:Robert Lopez

“I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down.”

Let Down

Author:Tyson Gay

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