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I drive an S80 Volvo; it's one of those real flashy cars. No, I just like it because I like a nice, cush ride; the Volvo is really cush, and it's powerful and fast.

~Cheech Marin

Topics: Because Car Drive Fast Flashy Just Like Nice Powerful Real Really Ride Those

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My husband and I own a CrossFit Gym. Crossfit is perfect for me because it's always competitive, all the workouts are in a class environment, and it's different every day. It's a constantly varied functional fitness workout done with intensity.

~Chelan Simmons

Topics: Always Because Class Competitive Constantly Day Different Done Environment Every Every Day Fitness Functional Gym Husband Intensity Me Own Perfect Varied Workout Workouts

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There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.

~Chellie Pingree

Topics: Answering Away Because Brain Digging Emails Garden Great Great Value Knitting Letting Pages People Phone Process Some Soup Stuck Taking Talking Time Turning Up Value Vegetables Whatever You Your

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I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer, with dialogue, attribution, action, objects in the scene, setting... It can be sometimes that delineated.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Action Adding Always Approach Because Dialogue Layer Layers Objects Scene Setting Sometimes Think Writing I Think

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I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Am Assume Because Board Everyone Look Over Planes Read Shoulder Shy Too Will Write Writing I Am

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Worst part of being a writer: having to tell my toddler that I can't play with her because I'm working. Keep in mind that working consists of me at home with a laptop on my lap sitting on the couch. It doesn't look like working. I don't have a hammer or anything.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Anything Because Being Consists Couch Hammer Having Her Home Keep Lap Laptop Like Look Me Mind Part Play Sitting Tell Toddler Working Worst Writer

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I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn't have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: About Because Change Choices Different Essays Fact Fill Had How Make Narrative Normally Place Relationship Shape Struck Things Travel Used Would Write Writing

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Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting.

~Chelsea Clinton

Topics: Age Because Between Calls Cell Cell Phone Come Dinosaurs Draw Enable Fluency Friends Gone Had Having Lot Make Millennials Mobile Mobile Phones More Native Natives Out Phone Phones Recognize Regularly Texting Than Tweeting Usage Way Well Were Whole

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I find the fact that more than 750,000 children still die every year around the world because of severe dehydration due to diarrhea unacceptable.

~Chelsea Clinton

Topics: Around Because Children Diarrhea Die Due Every Fact Find More Severe Still Than Unacceptable World Year

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I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn't born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that's how my breakups tend to play out.

~Chelsea Handler

Topics: Always Because Born Denial Divorce How Maintained Marriage Opposite Opposition Out Personality Play Pretend Serious Strong Tend Whatever Would

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