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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.

~Damon Galgut

Topics: Almost Battle Being Blocked Got Greatest Hazard His India Last Most Nine Novel Passage Periods Stuck Writers Writing Years

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Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

~Damon Galgut

Topics: Almost Almost Anything Anything Because Book Difficult Dripping Find Fix Good Household Incredibly Obsession Old Order Paint Point Rather Reach Sit Starting Tap Tasks Than Very Wall Write Writing You

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Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.

~Damon Galgut

Topics: Africa Almost Being Future Gone Had Involves Irrelevant Lot Many Overnight People Potentially Powerful Reinvention South South Africa Very White

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When you're the guy inside of a character and you've lived with it for almost two years, you're always a bit defensive about the character, and you want to root for the character you're playing.

~Dan Amboyer

Topics: About Almost Always Bit Character Defensive Guy Inside Lived Playing Root Two Want Years You

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I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

~Dan Brown

Topics: Almost Also Always Both Chapters Few Fiction Genre Me Needs Nonfiction Opening Pleasure Read Research Thriller

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We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.

~Dan Coats

Topics: Almost American Bad Bad Guys Cold Cold War Days Diversity Dividing Good Good Guys Guys Knew Long Long Time Makes National National Security Our Safety Said Security Seen Some Threats Time Us Variety Wall War Well-Being Were Who Yearn You

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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.

~Dan Gilbert

Topics: Almost Business Championship Fail Feel Get Happened Judged Last Life Media Much Ok Only People See Social Social Media Sports Success Thing Today Way Whether World You Young Young People

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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

~Dan Gilbert

Topics: Almost Build Detroit Downtown Efficient Exchange Feet Fitting Going Headquarters Here Invention Ironically Less Market Most Next Once Only Original Same Sat Spot Stock Than Thousand World

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Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.

~Dan Gilroy

Topics: Almost America Cinema Coming Commonplace Direction Entirely Escapism Films Gone Had Make Out People Relevance Since Spectacle Superhero Them Vietnam Vietnam War War

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I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.

~Dan Gilroy

Topics: Almost Angeles Bad City Decisions Dish Embraces Feel Inhabitants Kind Los Los Angeles Often Place Portrayed Primal Rest See Spread Start Struggle Survival Then Think Way Where World I Think I Feel

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