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• I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas. Whoever chooses to latch onto it, great; whoever doesn't, that's fine, too. The reaction always pales in comparison to the weight of the act of production.

  M. Ward

  Ideas, Records, Weight

  "'Time' Is Right for Songwriter Ward" by Jill Menze, www.reuters.com. January 10, 2009.

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• I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Rain, Thinking, Ideas

  Rodman Philbrick (2013). “The Last Book in the Universe”, p.146, Scholastic Inc.

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• Don't mess with Mister Inbetween.

  Johnny Mercer

  Mess

  "Accentuate the Positive" (song) (1944)

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• You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positiveE-lim-i-nate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmative.Don't mess with mister inbetween.

  Johnny Mercer

  Cents, Mess, Affirmative

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• It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.

  Connie Stevens

  People, Important

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• Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds: Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which yet they never enter, and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Faith, Men

  "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

  Ann M. Martin

  Inspirational, Education, Negative

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• Hope is called the anchor of the soul because it gives stability to the Christian life. But hope is not simply a 'wish' I wish that such-and-such would take place rather, it is that which latches on to the certainty of the promises of the future that God has made.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Hope, Anchors

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• The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.

  Freya Stark

  Travel, Behind You, Beckoning

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• While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.

  Patience Strong

  Spring, Joy, Taste

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. "Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too?" Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian stepped forward and examined the lock. "Natalie's diary has better security than this." He produced a credit card and slipped it between the latch and the jamb. There was a click, and the door swung wide.

  Gordon Korman

  Twilight, Thinking, Doors

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• Trends come and go, and if you try to latch onto a trend it will likely be passé by the time you have completed your manuscript.

  Andrew McAleer

  Trying, Trends, Comes And Goes

  Andrew McAleer (2008). “101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists: Insider Secrets from Top Writers”, p.66, Adams Media

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• As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.

  Justin Timberlake

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor defects so they'd start to bother me and allow me to snuff the dream till it tapered off and lost its luster and, with its luster gone, remind me once again, as ever again, that happiness is the one thing that in our lives others cannot bring.

  André Aciman

  Breakup, Dream, Party

  André Aciman (2010). “Eight White Nights: A Novel”, p.5, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

  James M. Barrie

  Sarcastic, Halloween, Night

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.201, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God has given grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, to force the way; But better had they ne'er been born That read to doubt or read to scorn.

  Walter Scott

  Fear, Lying, Book

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• As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

  Jeff Bridges

  Romantic, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Mean, Darkness

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• What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.

  Anne Carson

  Somewhere Else, Names, Greek

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Song, Thinking, People

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• It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.

  Nathan Fillion

  Cute, Character, Careers

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• When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Powerful, Father, Guy

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• Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in.

  Joss Whedon

  Real, Writing, Tvs

  "Joss Whedon at SXSW: ‘You have to become your own network head.’" by Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. March 10, 2012.

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• I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

  Harper Lee

  Giving, Trying, Ems

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse.

  J. G. Ballard

  Technology, Men, Keys

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