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I've always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn't have at least half a dozen projects going on at once.

~Amanda Palmer

Topics: Always Been Creative Dozen Going Had Half Least Life My Life Never Once Period Projects Where Workaholic

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I read contrived memoirs by presidential candidates. For every 'Dreams From My Father' - Barack Obama's honest, literary portrayal of his biracial upbringing - there were a dozen cautious, formulaic vanity projects by politicians.

~Amy Chozick

Topics: Barack Candidates Cautious Contrived Dozen Dreams Every Father His Honest Literary Memoirs Obama Politicians Presidential Projects Read Upbringing Vanity Were

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We built Bonobos, with more than a few dozen customers and counting, and the industry we were disrupting didn't seem to care. Then we 'sold out' to Walmart. Abracadabra. The red carpet rolled open.

~Andy Dunn

Topics: Built Care Carpet Counting Customers Dozen Few Industry More Open Out Red Red Carpet Seem Sold Than Then Walmart Were

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The world is so fundamentally interesting that it makes me fall in love with it a dozen times a day.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Day Dozen Fall Fundamentally Interesting Love Makes Me Times World

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I joined a writing class at a nearby community center, where I was the youngest participant by about 40 years. Once a week, I'd funnel down a staircase and join the dozen retirees crowded in folding chairs around a table to discuss one another's stories.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: About Another Around Center Chairs Class Community Crowded Discuss Down Dozen Join Joined Nearby Once Once A Week Participant Staircase Stories Table Week Where Writing Years Youngest

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I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.

~Antony Beevor

Topics: Accounts Archives Come Days Descriptions Dozen Excellent Experiences Half Just Love Out Personal Poignant You

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I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before.

~Arthur Lewis

Topics: About Before Born Both Dozen Had January Parents School Teachers Were Who Years I Was Born

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When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

~Atul Gawande

Topics: Beautifully Dozen Everybody Goes Half Like Operation Part People Playing Symphony

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I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Another Attempt Between Boy Cocktails Dozen Half Her Herself Loose Mama Me Monumental Nature Pity Pry Sympathize Take Task Two Who Will Woman Young Young Woman

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Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.

~Barbara Amiel

Topics: Among Countries Destructive Dozen Empire Expanding Half Malevolent Others Outside Over Since Soviet Swallowed Up Walls War World World War World War Ii

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