 I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. Author: A. J. Liebling
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| An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose. Author: A. P. Herbert
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| The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose. Author: A. P. Herbert
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| English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| We had at our disposal the first operational jet, which superseded by at least 150 knots the fastest American and English fighters. This was a unique situation. Author: Adolf Galland
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| I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak. Author: Agnes Smedley
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| In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents. Author: Agnes Smedley
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| I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie. Author: Aishwarya Rai
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| I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.' Author: Al Franken
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| I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. Author: Al McGuire
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| Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. Author: Al-Waleed bin Talal
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| I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved. Author: Alain Prost
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| I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old. Author: Alan Alda
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| If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month. Author: Alan Gorrie
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| An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him. Author: Alan Jay Lerner
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| I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then. Author: Alan Ladd
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| If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan. Author: Alan Perlis
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| In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. Author: Alan Perlis
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| I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge. Author: Alan Thicke
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| Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions. Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
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| From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder. Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
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| In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world. Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
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| I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. Author: Albert Einstein
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| My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama. Author: Albert Finney
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| Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. Author: Alex Cox
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| Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings. Author: Alex Cox
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| When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week. Author: Alex Lifeson
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| It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years. Author: Alexander Haig
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| Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament? Author: Alexander Herzen
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| The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. Author: Alexander Woollcott
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| It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,. Author: Alexis Bledel
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| The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
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| Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English. Author: Alfred de Musset
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| Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. Author: Alice Walker
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| Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star. Author: Alison Moyet
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| Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would take 10 years to bring this oil to the market. Author: Allyson Schwartz
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| French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety. Author: Alma Gluck
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| When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are! Author: Alma Gluck
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| We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks or how we show it. Author: Amanda Bynes
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| Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. Author: Ambrose Bierce
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| Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public. Author: Amy Grant
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| I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese. Author: Amy Tan
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| I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity. Author: Amy Weber
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| There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity. Author: Amy Weber
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| The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear. Author: Anatoly Chubais
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| I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve. Author: Andrea Jung
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| I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week. Author: Andrea Jung
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| When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits. Author: Andrea Mitchell
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| All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. Author: Andrew Fletcher
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| It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets. Author: Andrew Natsios
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| I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math. Author: Andrew Shue
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| Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema. Author: Andrzej Wajda
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| I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II. Author: Andy Hertzfeld
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| Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour. Author: Andy Partridge
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| Those were the days, you know. It's an English thing; as soon as it's gets to 6 pm, you have to go and have a drink. We used to stick to that religiously. Author: Andy Taylor
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| When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore. Author: Ang Lee
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| I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets. Author: Anita Diament
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| November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays. Author: Anita Diament
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| One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked. Author: Anita Diament
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| I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French. Author: Anna Held
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| You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches. Author: Anne Dudley
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| I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health. Author: Anne Perry
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| I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since. Author: Anne Stevenson
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| Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally. Author: Anne Stevenson
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| There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. Author: Annie Dillard
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| Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested. Author: Anthony Doerr
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| Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. Author: Anthony J. D'Angelo
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| Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year. Author: Anthony Michael Hall
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| There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. Author: Anthony Trollope
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| Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin. Author: Aristotle Onassis
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| Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots. Author: Armand Assante
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| In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties. Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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| I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place. Author: Arthur Godfrey
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| This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English. Author: Arthur Golden
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| For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit. Author: Arthur H. Sulzberger
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| I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay. Author: Arthur Hertzberg
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| Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago. Author: Arthur Machen
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| Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months. Author: Ashley Judd
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| After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need. Author: Audrey Tautou
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| Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone. Author: August Wilson
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| I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. Author: Augusten Burroughs
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| I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time. Author: Augusten Burroughs
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| An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards. Author: Austin O'Malley
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| I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call. Author: Austin Peck
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| The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days. Author: Ayumi Hamasaki
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| English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different. Author: Bai Ling
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| Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Author: Barack Obama
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| There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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| More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future. Author: Barbara Jordan
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| The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles. Author: Barney Frank
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| I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war. Author: Barney Ross
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| I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. Author: Barry Goldwater
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| I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs. Author: Barry Mann
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| If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance. Author: Ben Kingsley
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| The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice. Author: Benazir Bhutto
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| The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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