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It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

~David Benioff

Topics: Actually Any Down Harder Least Lot Me Moderate Only Point Sit Success Way Write I Can

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One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'

~David Bergen

Topics: Age Ages Born Car Children Confuse Dates Day Dealer Depression Despair Down God Grow Grow Up Her Hope Innocence Lives Names Notes Office One Day Other Reason Some Suffers Then Till Title Up Well Who Woman Wrote

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Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.

~David Blaine

Topics: Breath Cards Deck Down Experimentation Followed Holding Magic Perseverance Practice Pretty Pursuit Relentless Ridiculous Simple Training Up Whether You Your

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It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

~David Blaine

Topics: Cards Digital Down Great Images Just Like Line Look Magicians Math Math And Science Science Started Then

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Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their willingness to engage in our democracy, and for being there at the cutting edge of making our democracy work.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Active Being Being There Citizenship Country Cutting Cutting Edge Democracy Down Edge Engage Labour Labour Party Like Making Members Our Party Sticking Thank Up Up And Down Us Willingness Work

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If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted or misinterpreted. So it does lead to us being slightly more dour and staid and predictable than would otherwise be the case, which I personally find quite frustrating - because if you don't laugh occasionally in my job, you cry most of the time.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Because Being Case Cry Cut Distorted Does Down Find Frustrating Humour Irony Job Laugh Lead Misinterpreted More Most Occasionally Otherwise Personally Predictable Quite Sense Slightly Than Time Us Which Would You

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Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which I am all too familiar, having been brought up in the city of Sheffield; and it certainly isn't badly paid compared with any of my constituents.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Am Any Badly Been Being Brought Certainly City Compared Constituents Desperately Down Familiar Going Hard Hard Life Having Life Like Paid Pit Too Up Which Working I Am

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Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

~David Bohm

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The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.

~David Boies

Topics: Against Bill Bill Of Rights Constitution Court Decision Decisions Down Every Fundamental Fundamental Rights Including Legislation Love Majority Marry Minority Past Person Protect Purpose Rights Strikes Supreme Supreme Court Very Voters You

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There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

~David Bowie

Topics: Again Because Bother Different Different Directions Directions Down Dozen Each Each Time Favorite Half Hunt Me Most Return Same Subjects Theme Time Time And Time Topic Writers

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