"You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use."
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"Use testimonial letters from satisfied customers at every opportunity."
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"Twitter and Facebook are brilliant- tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible."
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"Societies in decline have no use for visionaries."
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"I would frankly be shocked if Donald Trump even knows how to use chopsticks or is even able to manipulate them with those tiny little fingers."
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"This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before."
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"A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
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"Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves."
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"There's no use running if you're on the wrong road."
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"I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself."
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"Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable."
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"I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers."
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"Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none."
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"Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?"
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"I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it."
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"I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value."
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"I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny."
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"You never know, the way technology is going, we might all use the games for scouting by the time I retire."
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"Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words 'large' or 'size' with 'rear end'. Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me."
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"Jazz is an endless source of ideas, because you can use anything. You can play operatic arias. You can incorporate them into jazz. You can play gypsy music and incorporate it into jazz. You can European classical and you can incorporate it into jazz. You can use anything and jazz it up, as they used to say."
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