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I quickly learned that as a fiction writer, you need the sort of details a historian or a biographer would find extraneous or useful to provide context via a footnote.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Context Details Fiction Fiction Writer Find Historian Learned Need Provide Quickly Sort Useful Via Would Writer You

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I'm not going into personal details of meetings I have with anybody, be it John Howard or President Bush or President Putin or President Yeltsin, in years gone by, whoever it may be, I'm not going into that.

~Alexander Downer

Topics: Anybody Bush Details Going Gone John May Meetings Personal President President Bush Putin Whoever Years

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It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

~Alexander Fleming

Topics: Advance Details Due Enterprise First Idea Individual Lone Makes May Out Perception Prime Subject Team Thought Who Worked Worker

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Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

~Alexander Kluge

Topics: Between Concrete Description Details Dreamed Enables Extended Hear Incredibly Look Never People Really Requires Scene See Similar Something Subtle Telephone Telescope Television Things Unlikely Us You

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Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.

~Alexander Osterwalder

Topics: Customer Details Entrepreneurs Great Listeners Often Patterns Pick Small Spot Stories Up

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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

~Alfred De Vigny

Topics: Advance Along Cares Carries Civilization Complete Details Events Grand Indifferent Individuals Less Most Noble Rather Real Sum Sum Total Than Them Total Values Which

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In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

~Alfred Russel Wallace

Topics: Adaptation Animals Constantly Details Find Food Found Habits History Marvellous Natural Natural History Which Works

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I totally have the ability to laugh at myself. I don't think one should take oneself seriously, ever. As long as you are not hurting my sentiments by revealing personal details or talking badly about my family, I'm absolutely fine.

~Alia Bhatt

Topics: Ability About Absolutely Badly Details Ever Family Fine Hurting Laugh Long Myself Oneself Personal Revealing Sentiments Seriously Should Take Talking Think Totally You

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I have an obsession with details and pattern.

~Alice Temperley

Topics: Details Obsession Pattern

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I was worried that one day, 40 years from now, I would look back and wouldn't be able to remember the details of my life, so I've written them all down.

~Alicia Keys

Topics: Able Back Day Details Down Life Look My Life Now One Day Remember Them Worried Would Written Years

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