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Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree.

~Andrew Motion

Topics: Back Been Being Between Birds Came Day Evening Far Few Had Laureate Like Me Much Poems Pretty Stopped Tree

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Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Before Came Gave Higher Instincts Margaret Margaret Thatcher Name Old Once Our Politics Power Thatcher Thought Time Who Years

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When I came out when I was 18, and I graduated from high school, and I felt like that was the time to officially say it, I surprised zero people in my family.

~Andrew Rannells

Topics: Came Family Felt Graduated High High School Like Officially Out People Say School Surprised Time Zero I Came

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The economic meltdown that would define every aspect of Obama's economy came to a head well before he became president, of course, and so did the legislation that would be the basis for everything that came after.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

Topics: After Aspect Basis Became Before Came Course Define Did Economic Economy Every Everything He Head Legislation Obama President Well Would

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Perhaps the biggest economic shift during Obama's presidency came from a piece of legislation that wasn't sold as such. On March 21, 2010, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. It was Obama's boldest piece of legislation and the one that will most likely define him.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

Topics: Act Affordable Affordable Care Act Better Biggest Came Care Congress Define Economic Him Known Legislation Likely March Most Obama Obamacare Passed Perhaps Piece Presidency Shift Sold Will

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I do think that Americans do not understand that things are done differently in other parts of the world and that the other ways people do things are equally accurate ways to do things. Someone else just came up with something different.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: Accurate American Came Different Differently Done Else Equally Just Other Parts People Someone Something Things Think Understand Up Ways World

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Nowadays, people often ask me when I came out, generalising from the experience of many young people who announce themselves to the world on a particular afternoon. But I did not divorce my reticence in a single sharp break. Rather, I seeped out like a spreading wine stain.

~Andrew Solomon

Topics: Afternoon Announce Ask Break Came Did Divorce Experience Like Many Me Nowadays Often Out Particular People Rather Reticence Sharp Single Spreading Stain Themselves Who Wine World Young Young People I Came

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I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.

~Andrew Solomon

Topics: Able Always Anything Came Cope Died End Fairly Had Losses Mother Myself Other Personal Relationship Series Strong Then Things Thought Tough Variety

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Fortunately for me, my mother loved travel. Our first non-beach family trip abroad - to England, France, and Switzerland - came when I was 11, and thereafter, we often tagged along on my father's European business trips.

~Andrew Solomon

Topics: Abroad Along Business Came England European Family Father First Fortunately France Loved Me Mother Often Our Switzerland Thereafter Travel Trip Trips

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I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

~Andrew Stanton

Topics: Before Came Computer Had Life My Life Never Pixar Touched I Came

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