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“I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.”

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“Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.”

Sometimes Games Lines Behinds Enemy Hazards Occupational Hazards

Author:Dan Quisenberry

“I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.”

Lines Periods Lows Unemployment Quinn Low Points

Author:Martha Quinn

“Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.”

Today Song House Enjoy Lines Rich Genius Claims Responsible Folks Treasure Ownership Scottish Folk Songs Enjoy Today

Author:Jimmy Reid

“As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at removing body hair.”

Body Lines Hair Draws Welsh Waxing Body Hair

Author:Matthew Rhys

“Generally speaking, I'm a jeans, T-shirt and boots man but I do own an Armani suit, which gets a regular outing. It's nothing fancy - just a classic, well-cut suit with clean lines and beautiful tailoring. It's timeless and you can mix and match it with anything to dress up or dress down.”

Men Wells Beautiful Lines Cutting Dresses Clean Suits Shirts Classic Fancy Boots Timeless Jeans T Shirt Armani

Author:Matthew Rhys

“When I'm older, I want to have my own workout clothes line, like leggings and cute jackets in bright and fun colors.”

Want Fun Lines My Own Color Clothes Cute Workout Jackets Leggings Workout Clothes

Author:Aly Raisman

“If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.”

Ifs Hard Helping Force Hours Lines Powerful Normal Paid Towns Competition Workers Bottom Stores Offering Unemployment Employers Bottom Line Robust

Author:Christina Romer

“I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you've had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there's not a line of continuity to it.”

People Trying Looks Jobs House Lines Roots Extraordinary Chasing Ordinary People Continuity

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.”

Today Artist Stars Lines Talent West Pops Justin Pop Stars Gaga Beyonce

Author:L.A. Reid

“My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.”

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Author:Nikki Reed

“I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want to be able to go out and race.”

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Author:Paula Radcliffe

“I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.”

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Author:Shawn Ryan

“And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.”

Lasts Turns Difficult Lines Rap Last Words

Author:Slick Rick

“It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.”

Stills Fun Lines Dresses Memorizing

Author:Stephen Root

“I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.”

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Author:Stephen Root

“When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.”

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Author:Trevor Rabin

“All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.”

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Author:Ali Smith

“Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.”

Real Lines Player Rocks Focused Great Things Castles Niche Motion Pictures

Author:Fred Seibert

“I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.”

Firsts Book Grows Lines Focus Scene Plot

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.”

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Author:Angela Sarafyan

“What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating.”

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Author:Bob Saget

“You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.”

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Author:Courtney Thorne Smith

“In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta.”

Whole Individual Lines Results Views Structure Operations Atoms Electric Quantum Emissions Interconnected Coherence

Author:Johannes Stark

“Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's. We are made up of energy lines. The reason people lived longer is because there was less negative energy in the world.”

People World Made Reason Past Energy Lines Negative Dependent Short Life Physical Health Negative Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's a real difference between venture capitalism and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism we like. Vulture capitalism, no. And the fact of the matter is that he's going to have to face up to this at some time or another, and South Carolina is as good a place to draw that line in the sand as any.”

“I'm mentally getting myself ready to talk about it all year long because I know it's going to come. My main focus is not to really concentrate on that... So many things have to line up, to be healthy and consistent for so many games, to get to that point. I know as we get closer we're going to talk about it more. But believe me, when it's done, if it gets done, it will be a huge achievement and I'm definitely going to soak it in. But at this time, it's not at the top of my mind.”

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Author:Anthony Calvillo

“Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine, Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong.”

Two Earth Strong Lines Mines Prove Dwelling

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.”

Writing Lines Insane Naive

Book:Mitla Pass

Source: Mitla Pass

“You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of inter-dimensional phone line between yourself and our various selves, when you have become aware of that, that's when magic begins.”

World Kind Self Lines Magic Buddhism Phones Various Contact Other Worlds One Line

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is composed of lines of light, fibers of energy, pulsing, still, pure being.”

Stills Light Life Is Energy Lines Awareness Buddhism Pure Fiber

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you line everything up, just right, you walk through a doorway where the world as you know it collapses.”

Ifs Knows World Lines Walks Awareness Buddhism Collapse Doorways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People are kept in line in society because they fear punishment. The assumption that underlies this mentality is that a human being will follow their desires without mitigation.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“They say Casanova made love to over 10,000 women. Do you think it changed him? It probably aged him a little bit. But I doubt that it changed him. If it had changed him, he would have stopped somewhere along the line and done something a little different.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Well, the bottom line is that I'm extremely pleased with 'The Stupids.' I'm pleased that it's coming out, and it should look good. It's nice looking, with the colors and stuff. I made it for kids, and I really would like them to see it.”

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Author:John Landis

“If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.”

Ifs Lines Areas Sympathetic Creepy

Author:Jason Segel

“Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.”

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Author:Aaron Tveit

“It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.”

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Author:Aaron Tveit

“I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.”

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Author:Jeffrey Tambor

“There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.”

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Book:Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion

Source: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion

“I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.”

Thinking Lines Picks Horrible Pick Up Line

Author:Kate Upton

“Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.”

Strong Lines Rising Very Strong

Author:Lark Voorhies

“I've never used chat-up lines; I don't have the gift of the gab.”

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Author:Ricky Whittle

“I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.”

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Author:Sam Wyly

“The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.”

People Way Shows Young Lines Talent Models Starting Great Things Tied New Ways Young Talent

Author:Alexander Wang

“Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.”

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Author:Amy Waldman

“But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.”

Kind Character Remember Fall Realizing Lines Throat Musicality

Author:Billy West

“What does it tell you that applications for guns since the shooting are up 41 percent in Colorado, and that our cameras found about 50 people in line at one gun shop yesterday outside Denver?”

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Author:Brian Williams

“Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.”

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Author:Chris Ware

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