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• People want to download publications quickly and read them without cruft. Publications that started in print carry too much baggage and usually have awful apps. 'The Magazine' was designed from the start to be streamlined, natively digital, and respectful of readers' time and attention.

  Marco Arment

  People, Attention, Magazines

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• I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

  Lawrence Block

  Fiction, Plans

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• Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.

  Paget Brewster

  Men, Skills, Dating

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• A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don't clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn't right, it tastes awful.

  Andrew Bird

  Espresso, Water, Machines

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• We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.

  Arthur Blank

  Home, Years, People

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• I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

  Rick Baker

  Different, Way, Thousand

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• Acting on a blue screen is awful.

  Steve Burns

  Blue, Acting, Screens

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• Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

  Sam Donaldson

  Home, Thinking, Victory And Defeat

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• The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.

  Kina Grannis

  Video, Fifty, Firsts

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• After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Book, Reading

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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• I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery.

  Lily Allen

  Confused, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

  Marc Andreessen

  Successful, Technology, Different

  "Q&A With Marc Andreessen And Ben Horowitz". Interview with Natalie Wynne Pace, www.forbes.com. February 13, 2004.

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• Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

  Billy Joel

  Distance, Night, Long

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• Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Land, Vices, Dimes

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• I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hilarious, New York, Children

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• If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

  Glenn Frey

  Nightlife, Politics, Checks

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• Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return. He left us a book to believe in, in it we've got an awful lot to learn.

  Marvin Gaye

  Religious, Jesus, Believe

  Song: Wholy Holy

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• I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress.

  Matthew William Goode

  Stress, Thinking, Decision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

  Lesley Garrett

  Artist, Media, Groups

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• I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Library, Stories, Literature

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• We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

  Todd Gitlin

  Movement, May, Revolutionary

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

  Kim Harrison

  Smart, Odds, People

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• I've played an awful lot of repressed people.

  Rebecca Hall

  People, Repressed

  "Who, me? Why everyone is talking about Rebecca Hall" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

  Celia Imrie

  Anorexia

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• I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

  Celia Imrie

  Trying, Bags, Mouths

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