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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

~Augustus

Topics: Bricks City Found Left Marble Rome

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I think when everyone found out I was Moana, we got banana bread practically every night of the week. Aside from that, it's been really normal!

~Auli'I Cravalho

Topics: Aside Banana Been Bread Every Every Night Everyone Found Got Night Normal Out Practically Really Think Week I Think

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Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It's like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

~Aurora

Topics: Closest Divine Down Found Get Hear Instinct Like Music Own People Share Some Something Thing Us Way Write

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Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sense of a great occasion. English critics have tried to claim him for their tradition, but, heard closely, his later music has that tremulous lyrical undertone which can be found in the Anglo-Irish eloquence of the eighteenth century.

~Austin Clarke

Topics: Brings Century Claim Close Closely Critics Eighteenth Eloquence English Epoch Found Great Heard Him His Later Least Lyrical Lyrics Music Occasion Regarded Sense Tradition Tried Which Work

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There was a time when I was knocking on doors and concerned with being recognized in dominant culture. I've found a space where the terrain is different, where I'm embraced by people like me, and where I'm building new ways of doing things, as opposed to trying to insert myself in a place that might not be welcoming.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Being Building Concerned Culture Different Doing Dominant Doors Embraced Found Insert Knocking Like Me Might Myself New New Ways Opposed People Place Recognized Space Terrain Things Time Trying Ways Welcoming Where

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To become a novelist, the most crucial thing one must do is read, read and read again - gradually you begin to think like a writer. Ideas are not found - they are shaped.

~Avi

Topics: Again Become Begin Crucial Found Gradually Ideas Like Most Must Novelist Read Shaped Thing Think Writer You

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When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Accomplish Babies Be Different Child Different Difficult Each Each Time Every First Found Four Months Myself Nothing Now Time Used Very Were Would Write Young

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I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Anything Awful Awful Lot Behavior Creating Else Found Lot People Relinquish Responsible Somewhere Somewhere Else Tell

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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

~B. J. Novak

Topics: Creative Creative Outlet First Found More Out Outlet Stand-Up Struck Then Wanted Way World Writer

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Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Appointed Away Best Candidate Did Discrimination Fill Found High-Level Itself Jobs Just Looked Number Often Positions Possible Record Sake Strip Within Woman Women You

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