"Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault."
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"Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground."
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"Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere."
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"I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me."
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"Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist."
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"But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this."
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"Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes."
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"When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line."
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"I would love to have my own lingerie line."
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"The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed."
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"It's not just straight-line speed. He's got the agility and the quickness to go with it. His vision on the field is phenomenal. It just opens the playbook so much as a coach that I'm really looking forward to it."
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"TV spots are short. If you can't hold folks' attention for 20 seconds before revealing the brand, find another line of work."
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"Here's the real thing. Democrats got to understand that the first line in the Republican playbook is going to be smear, you know? And there's nobody who's going to be able to avoid it."
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"I start with the joke line and write backward."
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"Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines."
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"Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other"
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"[Sam Phillips] laughed at me. I just didn't like the way I Walk The Line sounded to me. I didn't know I sounded that way. And I didn't like it. I don't know. But he said let's give it a chance, and it was just a few days until - that's all it took to take off."
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"Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word."
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"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business - you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen."
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"Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds."
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