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“My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying to get it to an audience. But I do have some kind of detachment that seems somewhat unusual in my trade. I'm a writer who writes every day. I don't have a period of months where I can't get anything done and I wander around tearing my hair out. When I come back from a book tour, for instance, I might have one day where I sleep late and then check my e-mail, and then go for a walk, and then the next day I'm really itching to get back at writing a story.”

“I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know. My task is simply to follow the words. There are surprises along the way. I just have to get it down. Call it the sculptor's clay.”

Knows Way Writing Firsts Periods Discovery Tasks Surprise Inquiry Clay Sculptors

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I would describe myself as a filmmaker, period.”

Periods Filmmaker Describe Myself

Author:Chika Anadu

“Vegetarianism is not implicitly important for the mental progress or the intellectual development, unless it is supposed to be a remedy to clean the body from slag. A temporary abstinence from meat or animal food is indicated only for very specific magic operations as a sort of preparation, and even then only for a certain period. All this is to be considered with respect to sexual life.”

“Over an extended period of time, if a culture does not entail any traditions...if there are no values or if there is no awareness or social consciousness...a heritage tradition can never be developed.”

Ifs Doe Values Culture Social Consciousness Awareness Periods Tradition India Heritage Tourism Social Consciousness

Author:Narendra Modi

“There is always a bit of pressure to do a good album - to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can't even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.”

People Knows Trying I Can Bits Work Periods Pressure Albums Good Work Do The Best

Author:Aaliyah

“Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease that spreads via the airborne route or can be transmitted during the incubation period, before an infected person shows telltale signs of illness.”

Needs Mean Persons Shows Remember Cases Worst Periods Disease Illness Spread Severe Routes Scenarios Preparedness Ebola Airborne Worst Case Scenario Incubation

Author:Margaret Chan

“We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in front of us. There are germs. There are changes that are happening in our planet's ecology that are happening over such a long period of time that we cannot see the changes.”

Long Reality Fronts Planets Periods Happenings Notion Rely Ecology Our Planet Medieval Germs Long Periods Of Time Medieval Times

Author:John Hodgman

“The transitional period was tough, I won't kid you. You go from a certain family dynamic to adjusting to a completely new one. It took a few months for us all to fi nd our feet.”

Kids Certain Feet Months Periods Tough Adjusting

Author:Donna Air

“Georgian England, to see those wonderful houses being built. And the clothes were interesting too, although I wouldn't want to wear a wig. It's also the most beautiful period of English landscape gardening. They had famous gardeners like Capability Brown.”

Want Beautiful House Interesting Wonderful Periods Clothes Built England Landscape Brown Capability Gardening Gardener Wigs Georgians

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“Quite often on a movie like Total Recall you have this training period of two or three months where, like on the first 'Underworld' I was doing gymnastics and trampolining and all this stuff which I don't do in the movie necessarily, but mentally it helps. You come home and you go: 'Well, I've done all that. I must be an action star now!' So it helps you focus a little bit and gets you fit.”

Firsts Wells Littles Two Done Helping Home Action Three Stars Stuff Bits Focus Months Periods Fit Little Bit Training Coming Home Recalls Gymnastics Three Months Underworld Total Recall

Author:Colin Farrell

“I count 'Underworld 4' as my training period for 'Total Recall.' I do think it was hard because I didn't realize how tired I was. It is quite a lot to sustain that kind of physical work over nine months altogether and by the end of it, I definitely felt like I had aged quite a bit in that year.”

Thinking Years Kind Ends Hard Felt Bits Realizing Months Periods Training Tired Nine Recalls Underworld Nine Months Total Recall

Author:Colin Farrell

“Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes through that period carefully now thinks different things on different days.”

People Thinking World Different War Periods War Of The Worlds Different Things Second World War Think Different Different Day

Author:Nicholson Baker

“There are periods where you think, "What am I doing?" or "What am I doing it for?"; that's a more scary question. "I've made s---loads of money, I've left my mark in music, why am I still doing this?," and it takes a while to answer that question.”

Thinking Made Stills Left Answers Periods Mark Scary Load

Author:Noel Gallagher

“We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom and dad think he should have a helmet on. I don't think they should have a helmet on. They should break their leg and have an imagination. Otherwise, we're going to have a nation of accountants.”

Ifs Thinking Should Kids Nations Imagination Break Mom Dad Periods Should Have Legs Inches Plastic Accountants Helmet Mom And Dad Time Periods Scooters

Author:Ramin Bahrani

“It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.”

Forget Periods Never Change Intonation

Author:Martin McDonagh

“It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts.”

Source: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel

“I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.”

People Stills Important Brother Periods Clothes Defined Former Hippie Brooks Brooks Brothers

Author:John Hughes

“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.”

Art Artist Interesting Youth Periods Art Is Most Interesting

Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does.”

Doe States Done Happens Today Atheism Produce Months Periods Wings Tiny Atmosphere Butterfly Coast Devastated Tornadoes Flapping

Author:Ian Stewart

“Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis [invented for a purpose] on ad hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor science.”

Years Purpose Results Taken Special Evolution Periods Built Years Ago Accounts Assumption Ads Fabric Hypothesis Convenient Grotesque Fantasia Tearing Apart

Author:James Bryant Conant

“At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR camps is not a valid option, especially if they have children in their care. After the Vietnam War, Australia took a larger humanitarian intake than at any other period in our history. The Australian community accepted that. They were told why we needed to do it, and why it was the only ethical decent policy that a wealthy advanced country should adopt.”

“We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as each branch has upon the other two; the power I mean of electing at stated periods, one branch, which branch has the power of electing another. It becomes necessary to every subject then, to be in some degree a statesman: and to examine and judge for himself of the tendencies of political principles and measures.”

Mean Two Important Hands Political Principles Subjects Judging Periods Degrees Checks Tendencies Branches Voting Statesmen Legislature

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sand banks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.”

Knows Hands Order Nature Rocks Periods Shapes Safe Eternity Leaving Casts Boards Wheels Sand Why Not Pilots Almighty Nails Harbors Anchors Voyages Celestial Port Steers Reefs

Author:Peter Marshall

“Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.”

Age Interesting Existence Periods Flying Flight Aviation Commencement

Book:20 hrs. 40 min

Source: 20 hrs. 40 min

“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections”

Running America Form Leader Economy Periods Taxes Bases Irony Collections Soviet Smooth Philanthropy Splendid Breakdown Frantic Evasion Tax Evasion

Book:Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties

Source: Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties

“Reform immigration to make it easy for individuals to come over here, be documented, pay taxes - immigration reform is needed to state that its about work, its not about welfare... Set up a grace period where they can get a work permit... social security card so that they can pay income tax, social security, Medicare.”

States Individual Social Easy Pay Grace Security Needed Periods Taxes Immigration Income Cards Reform Welfare Permit Social Security Income Tax Medicare Immigration Reform

Author:Gary Johnson

“I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.”

Periods 80s

Author:Corey Hart

“What a blessing to be able to leave the cares of life for a brief period and spend time in the outstretched arms of your Shepherd, rubbing, as it were, your cheek against His face in intimate fellowship through prayer.”

Care Able Faces Peace Prayer Arms Periods Blessing Intimate Cheeks End Times Fellowship Spend Time Shepherds

Book:Powerful Promises for Every Woman

Source: Powerful Promises for Every Woman

“We're coming off a quarter here that was in-line with our expectations, but much lower at WPZ due to Geismar's extended outage and a continued heavy capital investing period all as was expected.”

Lines Periods Expectations Investing Heavy Dues Expected Quarters

Author:Alan Armstrong

“With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.”

Economy Periods Finished Ohio Railroads Baltimore Reorganization

Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

“When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period”

Firsts States Form Water United United States Economy Periods Rivers Revolutionary Construction Schemes Ohio Railroads Baltimore

Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

“First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.”

Firsts Kind Book Form Felt Challenges Responsibility Particular Periods Creating My Family Artistic Slums Creating Something

Author:Frank McCourt

“People ask me. 'What about gay adoptions? Interracial? Single Parent?' I say. "Hey fine, as long as it works for the child and the family is responsible." My big stand is this: Every child deserves a home and love. Period.”

People Children Long Home Bigs Asks Parent Fine Periods Gay Deserve And Love Responsible Hey Ask Me Adoption Adopted Adopting Single Parent Open Adoption Adopted Children Gay Adoption

Author:Dave Thomas

“And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.”

War Results Technology Cold Periods Achievement Destruction Thirds Tragedy Cold War Extinction Science And Technology

Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

“Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.”

Needs Feels Matter Remember Periods Essence Response Considering Remember When Yes Or No Crux

Author:Martha Beck

“The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.”

World War Country States America Certain United United States Amount Periods Civil War Brutal Casualties Junkie

Author:Al Lewis

“I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.”

People Thinking Important Different Feelings Together Team Personality Periods Training Madness Factors Distraction

Author:Larry Dixon

“We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care.”

Knows Care Periods Transformation Entering

Author:Julie Bishop

“I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British TV is Jane Austen adaptations and bridges and bonnets and boats and horses.”

People Done Faces Stuff Share Tvs Periods Horse British Bread Boat Bridges Not Sure Adaptation Jane Austen Bread And Butter Bonnets

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.”

Knows World Needs Littles Women Periods Paragraph Matriarchy

Author:Dorothy Thompson

“The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.”

Reason Seems Certain Actors Periods Eclectic

Author:Hugh Grant

“Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.”

Men Love Age Past Common Sun Months Needed Periods Six Rain Moved Contempt Gestures Twins Six Months Womb Fever Few Words Same Love Gestation

Book:The Portable Graham Greene

Source: The Portable Graham Greene

“We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and there was something of a Parliament before the Conquest. England is the mother of Parliaments.”

Years May Country Mother Proud Periods Mets England Ancient Be Proud Conquest Parliament Intervening

Author:John Bright

“Every child deserves a home and love. Period.”

Children Home Periods Deserve And Love Adoption Adopted Adopting Open Adoption Adopted Children Birth Parents Gay Adoption

Author:Dave Thomas

“Creation did not take millions of years. We can hardly be justified in trying to harmonize the days of creation with the extended periods of millions of years according to the reckoning of the so-called scientists.”

Trying Years Millions Creation Periods Scientist Justified Reckoning

Author:Joseph Fielding Smith

“I've gone through various periods with superheroes. They work in the right hands, but they don't work in other hands. It's tricky. But any movie is tricky. It's impossible to say, 'This is what you do in any situation.”

Hands Situation Gone Impossible Periods Various Superhero Tricky

Author:John Carpenter

“I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on.”

Looks Moments Kids Moving Community Streets Taught Periods Rap Brands Trends Rapper

Author:Tommy Hilfiger

“So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.”

Thinking Country Interest Periods Unusual Polling

Author:Jim Bolger

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