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I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.

~Adam Arkin

Topics: Also Assumption Case Comparisons Created Each Environment Healthy Healthy Environment Looking Other Rage Resentment Think Two Us Were Which I Think

Keywords: Abide


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The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.

~Adam Arkin

Topics: About Again Assumption Because Broad Crawling General Getting Good Kids Lot Make Me Movies Place Rules Sweeping Theme Were You Youngsters

Keywords: Abide


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Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life.

~Aminatta Forna

Topics: About Assumption Coffee Coming Complete Country Crop Everyone Her Hot Life Own Owns Plantation Project She Sierra Sierra Leone Talking Thinks Who Woman Writer Writing Wrote You

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People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

~Andrew Cuomo

Topics: Assume Assumption Bad Dealing Elected May Office People Run Want Who

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Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike folks as sorcery, and Martin Amis's 'Time's Arrow' wrecked my assumption that all narratives had to proceed from Then to More-Recently-Than-Then.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Arrow Arthur Assumption Connecticut Court Era Folks Had King Long Made Martin Me Narratives Proceed Strike Then Time Twain Wake Would Wrecked Yankee

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When I put out a tweet, and I put Reince's name in the tweet, they're all making the assumption that it's him because journalists know who the leakers are. So, if Reince wants to explain that he's not a leaker, let him do that.

~Anthony Scaramucci

Topics: Assumption Because Explain He Him Journalists Know Making Name Out Put Tweet Wants Who

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There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.

~Ariel Levy

Topics: Agenda Assumption Because Everything Feminist Fortune Generation Good Good Fortune Live Means Movement My Generation Simply Touched Way Widespread Women Work World

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I am working on the assumption that in the future there will be no Jews in Gaza.

~Ariel Sharon

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It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel.

~Ben Mendelsohn

Topics: Assumption Beginning Being Ends Good Got Like Lot More Novel Nuance People Really Room Started Up

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The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

~Benjamin N. Cardozo

Topics: Assumption Constant Fix Habit Law Limits Natural Right Right And Wrong Runs Spontaneous Throughout Wrong

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