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Lewis Black Comedian, Actor, Author
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"I get an idea about something. I just start thinking about it, and then I get onstage and I talk about it, and then I think about it some more and talk about it some more, and think about it some more and talk about it some more, until it starts to take a shape."

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Martin Luther Theologian
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"Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape."

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Michael Scott Business Executive
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"What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape."

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"There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take."

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Peter Andre Singer, Television Personality
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"I train for about an hour five days a week and feel I'm in the best shape I've ever been. I can eat what I want and that includes scoffing half a big bar of Cadbury's a day."

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"I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like."

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Eugene Green Artist
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"When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking it again, for the first few sentences you'll find yourself in very strange shape, because you're still the person who was speaking the first language. But if you keep speaking that language, you will become the person who corresponds to it."

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work."

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know."

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Aeschylus Playwright
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"The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise."

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Cormac McCarthy Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold."

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Charlotte Bronte Novelist, Poet
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"I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me."

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
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"God can take anything that happens to us-even bad things-and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person-if we let Him."

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