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“At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.”

Ifs Wells Kind I Can Different Ends Play Character Would Be Able Beautiful Known Careers Approach Crafts The End Of The Day Different Kinds Beautiful Life

Author:Adepero Oduye

“I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.”

Care Able Known Angry Take Care

Book:Merman: an autobiography

Source: Merman: an autobiography

“One of the best things about Heaven is that we will be able to reunite with loved ones who have already passed on. It will be the greatest family reunion we've ever known, with our loved ones, relatives and ancestors all together in one place at the same time, rejoicing. All together at last!”

Able Together Lasts Heaven Known Best Things Heavenly Loved Ones Rejoice Ancestor Reunion Family Reunion

Author:David Berg

“In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe.”

World Able Spirit Religion Universe Known Morning Childhood Adventure Rational Certainty Your Children Eagerness

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.”

Knows Men Has Beens Art Done Use Seems Able Artist Born Known Accepting Ordinary Lifetime Rejects Afternoon Now And Then Great Art Great Artist Ordinary Man

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.”

World Character Able Known Democracy Rose Democratic Pace Aristocracy

Book:The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life

Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life

“When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, "the neighbourhood in which this contemptible person resides is that officially known as 'the mean quarter favoured by the lower class of those who murder by treachery'," and for this reason he was not always treated with the regard to which his attainments entitled him, or which he would have unquestionably received had he been able to describe himself as of "the partly-drained and uninfected area reserved to Mandarins and their friends.”

Source: THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

“I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program is written in C and is likely written by a programming team in a remote location.”

Seems Able Known Written Team Program Programming Location Glitches

Author:Jerry Pournelle

“Of Captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced his characteristic bravery and judgment; and, since the close of the action, has given me the most able and essential assistance.”

Wells Government Would Be Able Action Speak Given Known Essentials Judgment Bravery Characteristics Captains Well Known Assistance Superfluous

Book:A review of a pamphlet purporting to be Documents in relation to the differences which subsisted between the late Commodore Oliver H. Perry, and Captain Jesse D. Elliott

Source: A review of a pamphlet purporting to be Documents in relation to the differences which subsisted between the late Commodore Oliver H. Perry, and Captain Jesse D. Elliott

“It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have faster and handier ships than ours, and many more long-range guns, and who know their advantage just as well as we do, will never close with us at all, but stand aloof and knock us to pieces with their culverins, without our being able to do them any serious hurt. So we are sailing against England in the confident hope of a miracle.”

Knows Wells Long Helping Able Fighting Causes Hurt Known Pieces Serious Gun Advantage Miracle England Ships Faster Range Sailing Well Known God Help Aloof God Help Us

Author:Nicholas Rodger

“There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future, l'avenir (to come) which refers to someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future. That which is totally unpredictable. The Other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival. So if there is a real future, beyond the other known future, it is l'avenir in that it is the coming of the Other when I am completely unable to foresee their arrival.”

Ifs Real Able Known Unexpected Unpredictable Anticipate Predictable Arrivals

Author:Jacques Derrida

“No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession.”

Way Long Soul Character Seems Able Spirit Brain Known Moral Class Remains Possession Alcohol Foolish Contact Insane Substance Marvelous Transforming Entrances

Author:Timothy Shay Arthur

“As a critic, I try very hard to say exactly what I think. And in a medium in which we are well-known for the binary thumbs up and thumbs down, I try to be able to give the mixed review. But most pictures fall into that middle ground, so I wrestle over which way my thumb is going to turn. It's not flip.”

Thinking Way Giving Trying Wells Hard Able Turns Fall Known Middle Critics Mediums Reviews Well Known Thumbs Flip Binary Middle Ground Thumbs Up Thumbs Down

Author:Gene Siskel

“My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands. But when I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.”

Knows Feels Writing Wells Children Long Country Stories Use Hands Seems Able Moving Values Known Tree Streets Wall Fit Walking Elements Long Time Tools Familiar Ease Vocation Misunderstood

Author:Natalia Ginzburg

“All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your first year, you will have what are known as 'zek's eyes.' The look in a zek's eyes is impossible to describe, but once encountered, it is never forgotten. When you emerge, your friends, embracing you, will exclaim: 'Your eyes! Your eyes have changed!' And not one of your tormentors will be able to bear your scrutiny. They will turn away from it, like beaten dogs.”