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Where I live, in Vermont, there's this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It's almost a plague.

~Colin Trevorrow

Topics: About Almost Childhood Disease Ever Know Life Live Men Nothing Plague Rest Satisfying Thing Vermont Where Which Women

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The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.

~Colin Trevorrow

Topics: Adult Almost Childhood Great Impossible Magic Movies Our Particular Were

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I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.

~Collis Potter Huntington

Topics: Almost Attribute Building Country Day Drove Hills Horses Interest Map Naturally New New York Once Out Pair Railroad Rivers Saw Something Success Such Things Take Then Things Valleys Villages Yes York I Can

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I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it needs softening. Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep - it can't be done abruptly.

~Colm Toibin

Topics: Almost Child Come Deliberately Done End Ending Like Needs Novel Plan Planned Point Putting Sleep Sometimes Very Work

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You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.

~Colm Toibin

Topics: Actually Affects After Again Almost Also Days Depressed Few First First Of All Get Keep Like Makes Need Practice Road Show Slightly Start Style Tennis Uneasy Up Writing You

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I'm slightly influenced by sport in that I like the idea of trying, like an athlete, to keep absolutely ready. That's an emotional thing, almost. I don't mean physically, although I play tennis. But you try to keep yourself ready.

~Colm Toibin

Topics: Absolutely Almost Although Athlete Emotional Idea Influenced Keep Like Mean Physically Play Ready Slightly Sport Tennis Thing Try Trying You Yourself

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People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I've trained that way, I've actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn't come. It's almost because my training has been too hard.

~Conor Mcgregor

Topics: Actually Almost Anytime Because Been Bit Come Fight Flatter Get Gym Hard Little Little Bit People Sharp Shot Sparring Think Too Trained Training Way Will You

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Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

~Conor Oberst

Topics: Almost Although Amount Birthplace Comfortable Extended Feel Grew More Myself New New York Peace Place See Spending Time Up York I Feel

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All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

~Conrad Black

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No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and Jordan and most of the oil-rich states, and the entire former British Indian Empire were better governed by Europeans.

~Conrad Black

Topics: Africa Almost Almost All Better British Could Dispute East Empire Entire Europeans Except Former Governed Indian Israel Jordan Middle Middle East Morocco Most North Seriously States Sub-Saharan Were

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