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There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.
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As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very conservative mode of storytelling. Usually it's the greedy, climbing, new-money slimeball who wants to take from the aristocracy.
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Dream Big. Start small. Act now.
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When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.
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Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.
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Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
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When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.
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The debate raged on for so long, at last Saphira had interrupted with a roar that shook the walls of the command tent. Then she said, I am sore and tired, and Eragon is doing a poor job of explaining himself. We have better things to do than stand around yammering like jackdaws, no? ... Good now listen to me. It was reflected Eragon, hard to argue with a dragon.
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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
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He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.
