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“Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is worth his or her weight in gold, as they'll often know the editors on a personal level and will be able to talk to them directly about the project.”

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Author:Tim Lebbon

“Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.”

“If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.”

Ifs Knows Kind Able Common Ought Common Sense Public Health Pandemics

Author:Julie Gerberding

“The Bible has a human history as well as a divine inspiration. It is a history full of interest, and it is one which all those who value their Bible should know, at least in outline, if only that they may be able to meet the criticisms of sceptics and the ignorant.”

Ifs Knows Should Humans Wells May Inspiration Able Values Interest Divine Criticism Ignorant Human History Outlines Divine Inspiration Sceptic

Author:Frederic G. Kenyon

“My fans -- when I see them somewhere, outside my concerts -- I get that, that vibe. They're really supporting my projects and everything, because it's a first time that a Turkish singer is, you know, able to express himself out of Turkey.”

Knows Firsts Able Fans Projects First Time Singers Concerts Turkeys Turkish

Author:Tarkan

“Ultimately, all I wanted was for players to feel like they were in the real world. I wanted them to be able to apply real world common sense to the problems confronting them, and I thought recreating real world locations would encourage that kind of thinking. There's also just a real power, a real thrill, when you fire up a game and see a place you've been or want to go, and then get to do all the stuff you WANT to do there but know you'll get arrested if you try! If that isn't the stuff of fantasy - far more than exploring some goofy dwarven mine or alien spaceship - I don't know what is!”

“Unless you know what it is I ain't never going to be able to explain it to you.”

Author:Louis Armstrong

“All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division”

Knows Able United Achieve Football Thirds Managers Soccer Division Chairman Manchester Manchester United Villa

Author:Ron Atkinson

“Iran may have attacked ISIS. Do you know how long it's been since I have been able to wear my "Go Iran" T-shirt?”

Knows May Long Has Beens Able Know How Shirts Iran Do You Know T Shirt Isis

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.”

Ifs Knows Wells May Enough Hands Able Guy Left Strong Can Do Hitting This Guy Yankees Strong Enough New York Yankees Fellas Left Handers

Author:Casey Stengel

“I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.”

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Author:Antonin Artaud

“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

“Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what the truth is, but they can tell when someone is trying to lead them astray or sell them something shady. I think he had that ability to an amazing degree. I also think he thought, without saying it explicitly, that you can convince a crowd of something that's not true more easily than you can one person at a time.”

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Author:George Orwell

“In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought me a box camera which I treasured for years. Initially I clicked trees and nature and as I grew up started noticing prettier things-motorbike, sleek cars and cool girls. But the hamartia of life is when you desire something you cannot afford it and when you are able to afford it you are too old to use it. Now I don't need all gadgets but it's satisfying to know that at least I can afford them.”

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Author:Amitabh Bachchan

“In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.”

Knows Reason Able Plans Involved Entertainment Day To Day

Author:Parker Stevenson

“Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.”

Ifs Knows Wells Able Atheism Positive Atheism Laziness

Author:Albert Camus

“As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.”

Knows Able Atheism Effects Theory Positive Atheism Physics

Book:Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

Source: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

“And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.”

Knows Feels Able Turns Literature Television Comfortable Hopefully Turn-on

Author:Katie Couric

“The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.”

People Ifs Knows Would Be Able Literature Taken Saws Unions Soldier Congress African Union

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“There was a small boy on crutches. I do not know his name, and I suspect I never will. But I will never forget his face, his smile, his sorrow. He is one of the millions robbed of hope and dignity by charlatans discussed in this book. Wherever and whoever he is, I apologize to him for not having been able to protect him from such an experience. I humbly dedicate this book to him and to the many others who have suffered because the rest of us began caring too late.”

Source: The Faith Healers

“That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God." But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.”

“I don't know how many more movies I'm going to get the opportunity to make and I don't want to look back and go: "Man, I just floated through that one." Or: "I did that one for the money." I want to be able to say that I worked as a hard as I could and I did the best work that I could do.”

Knows Men Want Looks Hard Able Opportunity Know How Best Work

Author:Tina Fey

“With directing, you have to know what you're doing, but you have to actually be able to control what's going on.”

Author:Joe Hahn

“I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.”

Thinking Knows Needs Mean Age Able Technology Minutes Type Hundred Height Productive Technological Basics

Author:Larry Gelbart

“Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was the place where everyone wanted to go. Empires wanted to be able to say that they were the first to put a climber on top of Everest. So when a tragedy happens up on that mountain, I think it has a global resonance. Everybody's heard of Everest. Everybody knows what Everest is and what it means, and the significance.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Mean Littles Happens Able Wanted Bits Imagination Heard Special Century Moon Mountain Little Bit Tragedy Empires Significance Resonance Everest Special Places Climbers

Author:Richard Engel

“Once you realize you can make people laugh, it's a superpower. When you're really young, you don't know how to use that power, so I would just say the meanest things I could to get a laugh. I was so awful. I would make fun of kids who didn't deserve to get made fun of. I was just mean, when I was really young. You don't realize that you don't have to be mean to be funny. But, it was something that I was just able to grow into.”

People Knows Mean Made Use Kids Able Young Fun Grows Realizing Laughing Know How Deserve Awful Making People Laugh Superpower

Author:Nick Swardson

“I want to know in this day and age, whether it is possible for any candidate who is not a billionaire or who is not beholden to the billionaire class, to be able to run successful campaigns.”

Knows Want Running Age Able Class Successful Campaigns Candidates This Day Billionaire

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I look for things that are very different from my life, and that are curious and idiosyncratic to me. And then, I like to find if I'm able, just a little bit, to step into a world that I know very little about. That's great fun.”

Ifs Knows World Looks Littles Different Able Fun Bits Steps Little Bit Curious

Author:James Spader

“I really enjoy the direct dialogue with the fans. I'm very cognizant of my audience. I'm a trained storyteller and entertainer, and I know I wouldn't be able to work at the level I work at if people didn't enjoy what I did.”

People Ifs Knows Able Enjoy Levels Audience Fans Direct Dialogue Storyteller Entertainers Cognizant

Author:Elizabeth Banks

“The most interesting to me were Doctor Strange, because he was so mystic, and Thor, because that was really cool. I mean, I had never been able to relate to the idea of a bearded guy in the sky, you know, and I'd always really liked mythology, and with Thor, it was like Stan Lee was actually saying, "Yeah, it's okay, there really is this Nordic god, there really is something besides the bearded guy in the sky". So I loved that!”

Knows Mean Ideas Able Guy Interesting Sky Strange Doctors Okay Yeah Mythology Relate Most Interesting Really Cool Mystic Nordic

Author:Trina Robbins

“If we can sell out a venue that's just as big as this in Omaha, if we can sell out DePaul in Chicago tomorrow, which looks like it's going to happen for 1100 or 1200 people, then obviously everyone will know that we can affect between 700 to 1000 people at a time in damn near every city in America, then I think that's a good start. It also tells people, and gives them an example, how independent hip-hop is able to do this without gigantic corporate support.”

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Author:Immortal Technique

“I'm just blessed that I was able to have guys around me that had some of the same goals. The man above gave me a gift and he gave me friends and a mentor that can help me reach my goal and reach my potential. And we all had the same goal, so it wasn't hard for us to get, you know, off track because we all wanted the same thing.”

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Author:LeBron James

“As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to try to write songs from this time of the day to this time of the day." Almost treat it like a real job. I can't do that. I've never been able to write songs like that. You never know when something creative is going to hit you, or emotion or whatever. You can take it, and turn it into something that makes somebody feel something. I love that about my job.”

People Knows Feels Writing Trying I Can Real Able Jobs Certain Song Turns Emotion Creative Treats Mentality Songwriters Real Jobs

Author:Kenny Chesney

“My parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy thing I was into, she was very supportive of. You know, whether it was BMX bike racing or being in the Boy Scouts or surfing or anything else, she always seemed to sort of support it. And I think it's because she was an immigrant and that idea of sort of having her kids be able to have access to their dreams and whatever they wanted to follow was very important to her.”

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Author:Terry Gross

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”

Knows Inspirational Motivational Able Science Positive Positive Thinking Goes On Flying Pet Bees Flexibility Busy Bee Bumble Bee

Author:Mary Kay Ash

“You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.”

Knows Able Lays Eggs Rotten

Book:I, Asimov: A Memoir

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir

“I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head.”

Knows Enough Able Enjoy Red Carpet Let It Go Red Carpet Pageantry

Author:Al Gore

“I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.”

Knows Play Character Able

Author:Ryan Gosling

“I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their dreams, they wanted me to be more of myself, if you know what I mean.”

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Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“Go into the auto mechanic, youve got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.”

Knows Able Car Computer Mechanic Auto Mechanic

Author:Ann McLane Kuster

“Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.”

“I've had so many critics over the past couple of months. I've had so many people who said I'm too old for this, I am burnt out. But, you know what, I am so hungry to make a career for myself. I was able to turn all this negativity into something positive.”

People Knows Said Able Past Turns Careers Months Couple Critics Hungry Negativity Over The Past Burnt Out

Author:Ashley Wagner

“Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

Source: The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)

“When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.”

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Author:George Orwell

“There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.”

Source: The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

“We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. And in ancient thought the name itself has power, so that to know someone's name is to have a certain power over him. And in some societies, as you know, there was a public name and a real or secret name, which would not be revealed to others.”

Knows Giving Humans Real Able Certain Names Deals Secret Attitude Shapes Ancient Compulsion

Book:Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

“Sacrificers ... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they're able to do without.”

Knows Way Persons Able Sacrifice Pity Without Sacrifice

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?”

Knows Mean Seems Able Born Poor Knowing Conscience Intellect

Book:Pollok's Course of Time

Source: Pollok's Course of Time

“To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.”

Knows Able Poor Poverty News Good News

Author:Mother Teresa

“Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.”

Knows Seems Able Artist Found Know How Modern Murderer Conqueror

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt