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I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire?

~Anita Shreve

Topics: Almost Always Beach Bend Bit Bits Bottle Chunk Collecting Fire Glass Green History Hours Inside Lantern Many Medicine Pick Piece Sea Ship Spent The History Of Up Used White Who Wonder

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Few comedians can go to their shows and have people yell out bits that they want to hear. It's like going to see your favorite band and yelling out your favorite songs and to say the words along with them.

~Anjelah Johnson

Topics: Along Band Bits Comedians Favorite Few Go Going Hear Like Out People Say See Shows Songs Them Want Words Yell Yelling Your

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Science fiction in particular is often assumed to be about the future, or about some abstract technological or philosophical idea, or just about 'adventure,' but writers can't build worlds out of nothing. We use bits and pieces of the real world to assemble our fictional ones.

~Ann Leckie

Topics: About Abstract Adventure Assemble Assumed Bits Bits And Pieces Build Fiction Fictional Future Idea Just Nothing Often Our Out Particular Philosophical Pieces Real Real World Science Science Fiction Some Technological The Real World Use World Worlds Writers

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'Cinderella' the cartoon scared me. I watched the bits with the mice, and the scenes with the stepsisters ripping her dress apart scared me. Cinderella was never even my favorite character in 'Into the Woods.'

~Anna Kendrick

Topics: Apart Bits Cartoon Character Cinderella Dress Even Favorite Her Me Mice Never Ripping Scared Scenes Watched Woods

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I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Again Bits Children Discovered Forgot Like Myself Over Them Woke World Years

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Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Also Bits Did Die Eat Just Little Meat Obligation Something Those Tough Understand Value Wonderful You

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I enjoy horse riding, tennis, yoga and running - it helps to clear my head, and I can do bits of yoga in between filming.

~Anthony Howell

Topics: Between Bits Clear Enjoy Filming Head Helps Horse Riding Running Tennis Yoga I Can

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Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

~Anthony Shadid

Topics: Always Art Bits Bits And Pieces Get Incomplete Journalism Pieces You

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My next thing could be something in hardware. It's never been easier to turn bits into atoms.

~Antonio Garcia Martinez

Topics: Atoms Been Bits Could Easier Hardware Never Next Next Thing Something Thing Turn

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Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust.

~Antony Gormley

Topics: Ancient Australia Billion Bits Covered Crust Earth Granite Intact Largest Lies Most Old Piece Rock Single Still Surface Western Years

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