"Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore."
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"Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there."
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"Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things."
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"We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting."
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"Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody"
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"That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals."
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"By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much."
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"It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again."
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"Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while."
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"I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can."
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"I promise you this: at the end of your days, you will discover that the things you now perceive to be the big things in your life will be seen as little things, and all those things that you now believe to be the little things, you will realize were really the big things."
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"What makes us fully human is the relentless quest for making things a little bit better."
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"I have such a little face."
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"Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box."
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"I really like the animated film process. It's kind of like doing a play, because you can experiment with it, rewrite it, screen it, go back, then work on it a little bit more. If the joke doesn't work, you can fix it. It's different from a live action movie."
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"I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines."
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"It is but little of the world yet that hath heard the lost estate of mankind and of a Savior, Christ Jesus; and as yet the fullness of the gentiles has not come, and probably shall not until the downfall of the Papacy."
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"Imagine Oshkosh straitjackets for little insane children."
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"Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better."
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"Today's meters are little computers."
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