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• Everybody wants to feel that you're writing to a certain demographic because that's good business, but I've never done that ... I tried to write stories that would interest me. I'd say, what would I like to read?... I don't think you can do your best work if you're writing for somebody else, because you never know what that somebody else really thinks or wants.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Wish, Accurate

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• Well, I hate it when authors come into a school and they say to kids, 'Write from your heart, only write what you know, and write from your heart.' I hate that because it's useless. I've written over 300 books - not one was written from my heart. Not one. They were all written for an audience, they were all written to entertain a certain audience.

  R. L. Stine

  Hate, Book, Kids

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• Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.

  Richard Ford

  Art, Children, Real

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• If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

  Edgar S. Brightman

  Men, If There Is A God, Immortality

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• The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker... Judging requires a certain impartiality.

  Clarence Thomas

  Jobs, Law, Differences

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• People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

  Clarence Thomas

  Kids, People, Water

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• I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.

  William Morris Hunt

  Simple, Thinking, Despair

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• For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Mean, Numbers, Might

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• The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Revenge, Men, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2008). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

  Jenny Eclair

  Beach, Track, Bars

  "Me and my travels" by Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

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• The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.

  David Riesman

  Wife, Culture, Today

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.156, Transaction Publishers

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• There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

  Ellen Barkin

  Androgyny, Appeals

  "Ellen Barkin on 'Another Happy Day,' Sam Levinson, and Being a 'Broad'". Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.thedailybeast.com. November 15, 2011.

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• No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now struggling to find a new and valid philosophy of existence, will be propelled by the transcendental forces of the nuclear age.

  Harrison Salisbury

  Philosophy, Struggle, Future

  Harrison Evans Salisbury (1965). “Russia”, Scribner

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• In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

  Barry Commoner

  Teenager, Different, Way

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• The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

  Frank Auerbach

  Artist, Desperate Situations, Unity

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• Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  God, Doe, Favors

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• With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

  Anthony Storr

  Humanity, Rodents, Members

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• To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

  Trevor McDonald

  Years, England, Feels

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• I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

  Marie Osmond

  Safe, Way, Environment

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• Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Suffering, Enlightenment, Degrees

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.61, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.

  Joan Cusack

  Kids, Thinking, Views

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn’t make any difference how many dollars you have - at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.

  Michael Nesmith

  Differences, Dollars, Wealth

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

  Jon Lovitz

  People, Like You, Fame

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I'm not a natural musician.

  Nicholson Baker

  Hard Work, Musician, Levels

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