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When I started creating my work for publication, I just assumed that the focus would be on the work itself and that there wouldn't be a lot of interest in who was creating the work.

~Adrian Tomine

Topics: Assumed Creating Focus Interest Itself Just Lot Publication Started Who Work Would

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America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.

~Ahmet Ertegun

Topics: Accent America Assumed Came English Go Old Remarkable Spoke Think Twelve Washington Way Would Years You I Came

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I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Asking Assumed Badly Because Box Corner Enough Formed Found Get Good How Knew Know Listen Me Now Out Question Questions Something Step Take Them Through Would

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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Assumed Book Classic Definition Everyone Often Read Thinks

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Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

~Alan Rickman

Topics: Along Assumed Came Doing Life Lucky Movies My Life Originally Spend Theater Then Working Working Life

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I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.

~Alex Kingston

Topics: Assumed City Cosmopolitan Even Liberal Live London More Nobody Notices Opposite Relationships States Think Totally Would You I Think

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Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.

~Alice Dreger

Topics: Always Assumed Because Drafts Historians History How Human Know Make Memory Mistakes Perhaps Trained Would Writer

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I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Assumed Comfort Either Established Great Me Mean Mind Often Order Poetry Questions Radical Role Roots Think Thinking Which Works I Think

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I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.

~Amy Waldman

Topics: Article Assumed Been Came Characters Emerge Fiction First Had How Imagination Knew Novel Out Profile Reporter Research Set Skills Story Subject Useless Would Write Years

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I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.

~Andre Rieu

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