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I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I've known are also men of great wit.

~Alan King

Topics: Also Anyone Artistic Carry Creative Creative People Excitement Friends Generally Great Kitchen Known Life Living Men Passion People Right Something Speaking Stay Too Who Wit Zest

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When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of an idea about the beginning, and although I do write the story one sentence at a time, when I'm thinking it up, I'm thinking it up all at once.

~Alan Moore

Topics: About Although Beginning Couple Ending Generally Got Halfway Idea Know Once Points Putting Sentence Sort Story Thinking Through Time Together Up Write

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The Imgur community, as a whole, is generally a lot more positive and a lot more funny than other communities.

~Alan Schaaf

Topics: Communities Community Funny Generally Lot More Other Positive Than Whole

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I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Engineering Engines Fascinated Generally Idea Steam Technologies Victorian

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I've never had much interest in spinoffery - the idea of writing in someone else's universe generally leaves me cold - but 'Doctor Who' is different. I've grown up with it. It's been part of my life since I was tiny, watching Jon Pertwee on a grainy black and white television in Cornwall and being terrified out of my mind.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Been Being Black Black And White Cold Cornwall Different Doctor Doctor Who Else Generally Grown Had Idea Interest Jon Leaves Life Me Mind Much My Life Never Out Part Since Someone Television Terrified Tiny Universe Up Watching White Who Writing

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All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

~Albert Brooks

Topics: All People Anger Basically Because Comedy Each Generally How Improv Improvising Know Notice Other People Shows Turns Yelling You

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My father was very sick around the time I was born. The doctors thought he wouldn't live. He did recover, but I don't remember him as very active. I do remember lots of schtick around the dinner table. Generally, he and my brothers and I were all laughing at the same thing my mother did not find funny, whatever that was.

~Albert Brooks

Topics: Active Around Born Brothers Did Dinner Dinner Table Doctors Father Find Funny Generally He Him Laughing Live Lots Mother Recover Remember Same Same Thing Sick Table Thing Thought Time Very Were Whatever I Was Born

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I don't find it very helpful to know who else is going up for stuff, generally.

~Alden Ehrenreich

Topics: Else Find Generally Going Helpful Know Stuff Up Very Who

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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: About Actually Always Appearance Been Beings Dislike Dread Even Familiar First Fools Generally Hence Human Human Beings Innovators Madmen Majority Notions Persecuted Vast Vast Majority Which

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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

~Aldous Huxley

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