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Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician

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"On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic."

Art Book Eight

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Arthur Smith Comedian

Eight

"Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world."

Funny Laughter Eight

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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist

Eight

"(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I’m an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16."

Thinking Writing Eight

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Ava DuVernay Film Director

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"I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me? A publicist who's been there eight times. Getting there as a filmmaker was a completely surreal, different, unexpected experience."

Mean Different Eight

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker

Eight

"I've been an exercise maniac most of my adult life, running marathons and triathlons, doing that as a regular way of life. I ran eight miles a day, every day for 29 years."

Running Exercise Eight

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William Nicholson Artist

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"Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form: not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living."

Way Past Eight

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights, Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours More tedious than the dial eightscore times! O weary reckoning!"

Night Time Eight

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian

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"I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia."

Years Eight Arrogance

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer

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"I, interestingly, had dated a woman in the Eisenhower Administration briefly, and it was ironic to me 'cause I was trying to do toher what Eisenhower has been doing to the country for the last eight years."

Men Country Eight

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Vaclav Smil Scientist, Author

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"You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months."

Book Morning Eight

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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist

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"Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing."

Moving Song Eight

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Venus Williams Tennis Player

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"The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed."

Years Play Eight

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Rainn Wilson Actor

Eight

"I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child."

Children Grief Eight

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter

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"I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be."

Knows Eight Stockbrokers

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Ted Leo Musician

Eight

"I used to think success would be sustainability. Not being behind the eight ball."

Thinking Would Be Eight

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Terry Pratchett Author

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"There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's sad, but that's all you can say about some people."

Men Son Eight

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Ray Bradbury Author

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"I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about."

Daughter Eight Grandchildren

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author

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"The general tendency towards an eight-hour working day has undoubtedly been healthful, and it is wise for the State to set a good example as an employer of labor, both as to the number of hours of labor exacted and as to paying a just and reasonable wage."

Wise Numbers Eight

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Saul Bellow Novelist

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"I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken."

Strong Sleep Eight

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Seamus Heaney Poet, Playwright

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"The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year."

Years Self Eight

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