"I've been keeping my own naughty and nice list for Washington."
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"It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY's List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president."
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"I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint."
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"Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka."
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"You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists."
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"One of the scandalous things I did was as I read them afterward I would burn them. I loved them, but for practical reasons I had to lighten the load. I burned favorites, like William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying." There's a whole list in the back of my book. It's me,[Adolf] Hitler, [Benito] Mussolini, and Pol Pot. We're the book burners."
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"Destiny's Child will always be No.1 on my list."
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"Sometimes I'm asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer... prayer... prayer."
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"But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style."
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"That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life."
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"We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry."
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"As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger."
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"Everybody has a list of 100 things they would like to change about themselves. But it's all about focusing on the good things."
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"I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; one, that I have lost all the names, the other, that I have spent all the money."
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"Granny Weatherwas was not a jouster in the lists of love, but, as an intelligent onlooker, she knew how the game was played."
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"There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms."
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"Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening."
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"Aerosmith's 'Rocks' is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time."
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"In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list."
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"There are many writers who have influenced me and who I enjoy reading, but Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks are at the top of the list."
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