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“In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.”

Ends Realizing Thousand Ten Decided

Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

“When I started making enough money to afford high-end, fancy skincare products with sexy bottles and impressive claims, I decided to give them a try. As a result my skin acted up and got irritated. I think sometimes women may be overcleansing their skin. Some products and masks can be too aggressive and irritating for certain skin types. I believe the more simple, natural, and easy the skin care regime, the better off your skin will be.”

“Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.”

Ends Character Decided

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month.”

Way Ends School Order Week Months Decided Paid Newspapers Sensible Arranging

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Sometimes we say we want an end to hate or racism or sexism. But we all participate in keeping these structures alive. If everyone decided to relinquish the past what would happen to people who feel that there hasn't been proper atonement made to them? And what happens to the person who feels that the constant atonement is their identity?”

People Ifs Want Feels Persons Made Ends Sometimes Happens Past Hate Alive Identity Racism Decided Structure Constant Sexism Atonement

Author:Chris Abani

“Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.”

Writing Kind Made Ends Play Kids Wanted Three Term Interest Creativity Rocks Band Decided Singers Neighborhood Rock Bands

Author:Dennis Cooper

“I told everyone that actings for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.”

Giving Trying Ends Lasts Chance Acting Months Needed Decided Quitting Loser Try Again Last Chance

Author:Judi Shekoni

“I came to the conclusion that in comedy, everybody gets what they need, whereas in horror, everybody gets what they deserve. I decided that at the end of the day, I was going to give everybody what they needed.”

Needs Giving Ends Comedy Needed Horror Deserve Decided Conclusion The End Of The Day

Author:Neil Gaiman

“It was at first communicated to you that the Government, by order of the Jemiet had decided to destroy completely all the Armenians living in Turkey...An end must be put to their existence, however criminal the measures taken may be, and no regard must be paid to either age or sex nor to conscientious scruples.”

Firsts May Ends Government Age Order Sex Existence Taken Decided Paid Regard Criminals Genocide Turkeys Scruples Armenians Armenian Genocide

Author:Talaat Pasha

“We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen the road to exile in order that our people will not be exterminated and in order to consecrate ourselves wholly and in peace to the preservation of our empire's independence.”

People War Ends Age Order Decided Independence Chosen Empires Unjust Preservation Exile

Author:Haile Selassie

“I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.”

Writing Different Ends Done Stories Wanted Together Wonder Reader Decided Love Story

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.”

Mean Important Ends Spirit Literature Felt Movement Decided Important Things Existential

Author:Lu Xun

“The Republican I ran against, at the end of the campaign, had decided that I was "a friend of terrorists" and "a friend of pedophiles." That's the kind of crap they came out with. I expect that's the kind of crap they'll come out with again.”

Kind Ends Republican Decided Campaigns Terrorist Ran Crap

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I don't think I ever really decided I was an artist. I went to college to learn how to think and look at art. In the end, I developed a more sophisticated misunderstanding of art.”

Thinking Looks Art Ends Artist College Decided Sophisticated Misunderstanding

Author:Gavin Turk

“I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end.”

Ends Film One Day Decided Viewers

Author:Claude Lelouch

“The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost, and we had lunch when I started on OUAT and the first thing I said to them was, "I spent five years on Lost, you have to tell me, was my character good or bad?" They looked at me and said, "We have no idea." That's why you have to make your own backstory. I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.”

Writing Years Firsts Said Ideas Ends Character Guy Evil Lost Five Majors Decided No Idea Five Years Lunch Once Upon A Time Lost You

Author:Alan Dale

“Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss and Mr Hardwood told me about it when I asked him what the genesis was. It was made in 1983 and Verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in Milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the Scala and some were poor - could live there.”

Made Ends Poor Successful Rich Wonderful Mets Kissing Musician Decided Died Singers Opera Toms Documentaries Genesis Mansions Milan Opera Singers Dressers Verdi Hardwood

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“You're always in a tunnel that you can't see the end of. But there's something that took place on this movie that I don't think we expected and that was that once we decided that the entire cast would be real retired opera singers and retired musicians... and these people the phone hadn't rung for them for 20 or 40 years even though they can deliver.”

People Thinking Years Real Ends Would Be Musician Decided Casts Phones Expected Singers Opera Being Real Retired Tunnels Opera Singers

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.”

Firsts Children Art Ends Helping Hours Space Practice Five Minutes Masters Ought Decided Manage Staring Swim Capability Five Minutes Observing Hammocks Lounging Staring Into Space

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.”

Ends Balance Promise Decided Isolation Turkish Cyprus

Author:Ali Babacan

“The Baptists believe in The Right to Life before you're born. They also believe in Life After Death, but that is a privilege and you have to earn it by spending the interim in guilt-ridden misery. At an early age I decided that living a life of pious misery in the hope of going to heaven when it's over is a lot like keeping your eyes shut all through a movie in the hope of getting your money back at the end.”

Believe Ends Eye Age Heaven Born Decided Guilt Misery Privilege Spending After Death Baptists Pious Life After Death Right To Life Going To Heaven Interim

Book:The Big Picture: An American Commentary

Source: The Big Picture: An American Commentary

“Some people are tempted most strongly at the beginning of their spiritual life, others near the end. Some are troubled all their lives. Still others receive only light temptation. Such things are decided by God, and we can trust his wisdom.”

People Stills Ends Light Spiritual Decided Temptation Spiritual Life Tempted

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.”

Thinking Feels Writing Ends Decided Imagery Stand Alone

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with my life, so I decided to let people decide for me. For month I followed strangers on the street. For the pleasure of following, not because the party interested me. I photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their movements, and finally lost sight of them. At the end of January 1980, I chose a man and followed him to Venice. That's how I started. That's all.”

People Knows Men Years Ends Home Lost Pleasure Party Streets Movement Months Decided Sight Notes Seven Following Stranger Traveled Seven Years Back Home Venice January

Author:Sophie Calle

“A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.”

Should Ends Play Action Process Results Careers Player Football Fine Decided Mark End Results Football Match

Author:Michel Patini

“If I'm honest, I thought Westlife would keep going for longer than it did - we all did - but it sort of came to a natural end. When we decided we were going to split, I thought, 'If I'm going to sing, I'm going to have to do it solo.' Also, financially I was broke, so the decision was ultimately made for me.”

Ifs Made Ends Natural Decision Honest Decided Broke Keep Going Splits Solo Westlife

Author:Shane Filan

“After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it was not well-paid. I was an excavator, not a lecturer as well, so paying rent on a flat was tricky. In the end I decided to retrain as a journalist as I couldn't see a future in it.”

Wells Ends Self Decided Paid University Journalist Flats Scotland Employed Tricky Lecturer Glasgow Archaeologists Paying Rent

Author:Neil Oliver

“I decided to read something I normally hate: a cosy mystery. You know one of those mysteries where everything is tidily wrapped up at the end and everyone lives happily ever after? An Agatha Christie kind of mystery. They are so not my thing. But then someone was raving about Barbara Neely's Blanche White books and they sounded interesting.”

Knows Kind Book Ends Hate White Interesting Mystery Decided Happily Ever After Ever After Barbara Christie Cosy Blanche

Author:Justine Larbalestier

“It is about something personal and specific, because when the John McCain campaign in 2008 decided to elevate Sarah Palin from total obscurity to make her his vice presidential running mate, they knew they were making a big strategic gamble.They knew they were taking a big risk and it turned out in the end to be a bad choice. It hurt John McCain`s chances.”

Ends Bigs Running Choices Hurt Chance Risk Decided Vices Campaigns Presidential Mates It Hurts Strategic Obscurity Gamble Vice President Mccain Palin Bad Choices

Author:Rachel Maddow

“I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.”

Thinking Should Trying Kind Ends Decided Filmmaking

Author:Charles Ferguson

“I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.”

Ends Technology Particular Depends Decided Setting Settings Vague Pins

Author:Jonathan Trigell

“Sometimes people won't even finish a piece that you wrote, because they've already decided what it is that you want to say, and generally I, whatever I say in the first half of the piece, you should not assume I'm going to end up with, but they don't finish reading them. So, and people read fast and stuff.”

People Want Should Firsts Ends Sometimes Reading Stuff Half Pieces Decided Assuming

Author:Louis Menand

“For some years now, I've been doing a program called "Sinatra Sings Sinatra." It's been going on virtually since the end of '98. Nineteen ninety-eight was the year Frank Sinatra died. ... Now having reached what would have been his 100th year - I decided back in 2013 when we started to put all of this together, I decided what we should do was the first "Sinatra Sings Sinatra" in which we go audio visual.”

Should Years Firsts Has Beens Ends Together Program Decided Died Eight Visuals Frank Ninety Nineteen Audio Ninety Eight Audio Visual

Author:Frank Sinatra, Jr.

“It stung this new rejection, but it was also a relief to put an end to the ambiguity and incertitude. I had been deceiving myself the day I decided I could master the art of detachment, or maybe the mistake was to allow things to go on in that vein for as long as they had.”

Long Art Ends Mistake Masters Goes On Decided Rejection Relief Deceiving Veins Detachment Ambiguity

Author:Catherine Sanderson

“There was one sequence of days [making Lincoln in the Bardo] when I had halfway decided to use the historical nuggets, but I wasn't quite sure it would work. I'd be in my room for six or seven hours, cutting up bits of paper with quotes and arranging them on the floor, with this little voice in my head saying, "Hey, this isn't writing!" But at the end of that day, I felt that the resulting section was doing important emotional work”

Writing Littles Important Ends Use Felt Bits Voice Hours Rooms Cutting Emotional Paper Six Decided Historical Seven Hey Sections Sequence Halfway Arranging Nuggets Voices In My Head

Author:George Saunders

“The role that Cuba played and the lives of those 2,077 Cubans, whose mothers and families mourn for having lost their children in Africa, helped achieve the true security and independence of Angola. It was a contribution because in the end the Angolan people were the ones who decided that. We also contributed in a definitive way securing the independence of Namibia after years that a United Nations resolution was being ignored by South Africa and the western powers.”

“If we were going to default, we would have decided that many months ago. It would be wrong for the Greek economy, it would be wrong for the European economy, it would make things worse in the end. That's why we're taking the pain and making these structural reforms, and we're on target.”

Ifs Ends Would Be Pain Economy Months Decided Reform Greek Target Default

Author:George Papandreou

“But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with a smile both innocent and wise. ‘What good is it, Laila jo?’ And so Laila has resigned herself to moving on. For her own sake, for Tariq’s, for her children’s. And for Mariam, who still visits Laila in her dreams, who is never more than a breath or two below her consciousness. Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.”

Knows Way Want Children Stills Two Ends Dream Moving Can Do Consciousness Wise Decided Breaths Moved Sake Innocent Resentment Moved On Crippled Resigned

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion that Learning Should Be Fun. It hadn’t worked. It’s a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage—even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity.”

Source: The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld

“... I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so great a success that it had apparently convinced him that we were back in the golden days of romantic old New Orleans when gentlemen decided matters of hot dog honor at twenty paces”

Littles Stills Ends Matter Dog Honor Decided Twenties Hot Convinced Golden Gentleman Pace Costumes New Orleans Pirate Hot Dog Golden Days

Book:A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre.”

Ifs Men Children Important Ends Home Lasts Lines Enemy Periods Tradition Tasks Decided Defeat Bent Council Defence Physical Strength

Book:The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Source: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

“Curled up at the base of the scales, fast asleep, was the oddest monster I'd seen yet. It had the head of crocodile with a lion's mane. The front half of its body was a lion, but the back end was sleek, brown, and fat - a hippo, I decided. The odd bit was, the animal was tiny - I mean, no larger than an average poodle, which I suppose made him a hippodoodle.”

Mean Made Ends Body Bits Animal Half Fronts Decided Average Tiny Monsters Scales Fats Odd Brown Lions Crocodiles Poodles Hippo

Author:Rick Riordan

“And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.”

People Wells Made Ends Moving Lines Decision Morning Understood Decided Missions Expected Contemplation Fearful Unseen Illusory Finish Line Decisions Made

Book:Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

Source: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

“But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave it to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest -- the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends.”

Has Beens Ends Done Moments Age Chance Steps Plans Decided Spontaneous

Author:David Levithan

“Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean. But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they started to build never met. To this day the bridge extends far into the ocean from both sides, and simply ends half way, miles in the wrong direction from the meeting point. And the two countries are still at war.”

“I've decided. I'm going to become a Shinigami. Become a Shinigami and change things. So that they'll end... without Rangiku having to cry.”

Ends Cry Decided

Author:Tite Kubo

“I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.”

Ends Today Walks Stones Decided Down The Road

Book:Chasing Windmills

Source: Chasing Windmills

“That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.”

Ifs Men Way Mind Two War Ends Eye Young Easy Water Too Much Doors Conversation Mouths Tasks Decided Smell Saved Young Man Boxing Scream Hunts Discussing Boxing Matches

Book:City of Thieves: A Novel

Source: City of Thieves: A Novel

“The expression "following suit" is a curious one, because it has nothing to do with walking behind a matching set of clothing. If you follow suit, it means you do the same thing somebody else has just done. If all of your friends decided to jump off a bridge into the icy waters of an ocean or river, for instance, and you jumped in right after them, you would be following suit. You can see why following suit can be a dangerous thing to do, because you could end up drowning simply because somebody else thought of it first.”

“If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened.”

Source: The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)

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