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I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.

~Esther Williams

Topics: Control Funny Just Know Movie Movie Star People Star Think Women You I Think

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When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something with my readers. The whole idea of writing is this place where you lose control, where you're irresponsible - it's a very liberating place.

~Etgar Keret

Topics: Control Doing Idea Irresponsible Know Liberating Lose No Idea Place Readers Share Something Story Very Want Where Whole Write Writing You I Write

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The only successful way to write, and the only one I have found, is to be the character. Give up on trying to control them. Writers always talk about hearing voices. That's what they mean.

~Ethan Canin

Topics: About Always Character Control Found Give Hearing Mean Only Successful Talk Them Trying Up Voices Way Write Writers

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Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.

~Ethan Zuckerman

Topics: Attention Brief Control Crisis Extremely Gun Gun Control Intensity Interest Like May Media Moments Popular Produce Research Shooting Short-Lived Tend

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I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

~Ethel Merman

Topics: Control Delivering Films Liked Performance Person Preferred You

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This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

~Etta James

Topics: Album Always Control Entire Finish First First Time Had Heard Loved Over Really Recording Songs Start Time Tunes Years

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Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

~Eugen Herrigel

Topics: Artisan Artist Awaken Considers Control Craft Far First Him His Make Prematurely Pupil Skilled Sovereign Task Teacher Wishing

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I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.

~Eugene Jarvis

Topics: Action Aggressive Control Fate Fates Feel Hands Lack Like Player Run Skill Thereof Through

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As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Bishops Control Discover Down Soon Top Tradition

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I've never really focused on my ranking per se because it's out of my control. I try and do the right thing each week, and the ranking will look after itself.

~Eugenie Bouchard

Topics: After Because Control Do The Right Thing Each Each Week Focused Itself Look Never Out Per Ranking Really Right Right Thing The Right Thing Thing Try Week Will

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