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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Atlantic Books Commissioned Kind Life Margaret Me Publishers Queen Stead Victoria Write

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Mrs. Miniver was an ordinary middle-class English housewife, a character created by Jan Struther when she was commissioned by the 'Times of London' to write a weekly 'cheer-up' article in 1937.

~Alistair Horne

Topics: Article Character Commissioned Created English Housewife London Middle-Class Ordinary She Times Weekly Write Mrs

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I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.

~Andrew Davies

Topics: Against Been Classic Commissioned Critics Fed Fed Up Know Number Reaction Reviews Ridiculous Seem Show Them Up

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I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.

~Andrew Motion

Topics: Able Been Better Commissioned Did Doing Knows Mind Much Nature Obligation Poems Poetry Resist Sense Side Some Too Too Much Up Which Wish Work Write Written Your I Wish

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We commissioned an independent statutory economic body - the Productivity Commission - to review the possibility of funding a disability scheme. The commission returned with a view that it could. Then it becomes an issue of national will.

~Bill Shorten

Topics: Becomes Body Commission Commissioned Could Disability Economic Funding Independent Issue National Possibility Productivity Returned Review Scheme Then View Will

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One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catch-22 - you can't actually get to be commissioned to do certain types of building until you've already built that type of building. So it seems to be incredibly hard to get going.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Actually Architecture Building Built Certain Commissioned Dilemmas General Get Going Hard Incredibly Seems Type Types Until You

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Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.

~Bruce Beresford

Topics: Although Apart Around Audience Being Commissioned Ensure Few More Nothing Operas Performance Popularity Quite Still Than World

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My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

~Camille Claudel

Topics: Bust Commissioned Countrymen Fountain Native Placed Republic Town Will

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Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.

~Dan Gilroy

Topics: About Arc Became Better Change Character Commissioned Creates Every Film Ideas Messages More Prominent World Write You

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I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America.

~David Schwimmer

Topics: Adaptation America Chicago Commissioned Immigrant Industry Jungle Rise Story Unions Young

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