I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right. ~Gene Weingarten
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It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good. ~Miguel Cabrera
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I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that's no good. I can't believe I'm saying this. ~Jensen Ackles
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I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further. ~Donald Glover
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~Emily Dickinson
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
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Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that is largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies. ~Richard Branson
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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To the seeing eye life is mostly sparrows. ~Will Cuppy
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The people of Chicago are a proud people; and for good reason. ~Jane Byrne
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When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour! ~David Berg
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When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder. ~Julie Newmar
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
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It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right winger. ~Robert Winston
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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