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• The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out and two reviews are published and it sells 12 copies.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Two, Majority

  "Getting more from George RR Martin". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.

  Marlee Matlin

  Office, Hollywood, Different

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• A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other... maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.

  Dave Matthews

  Love, Relationship, Boyfriend

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Children, Humble, Humility

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• We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.

  Pat Paulsen

  Beautiful, Land, Effort

  "Paulsen's Running - But Where Is He?" by David Holmstrom, www.csmonitor.com. February 05, 1992.

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• I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.

  Shimon Peres

  Iran, Young Generation, People

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• You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

  Tom Petty

  Fall, People, Granted

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• I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.

  Michael Phelps

  Hero, Night, Shows

  "Olympic Lessons for Startup Life" by John Greathouse, www.businessinsider.com. July 17, 2012.

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• In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.

  Pink

  Kids, White, Radio

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• Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

  Terry Pratchett

  Queens, Fate, Play

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

  Harold Prince

  Heart, Self, Sick

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• I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.

  Dennis Quaid

  Golf, Feelings, One Day

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• Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

  Quintilian

  Procrastination, Too Late, Grows

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• I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

  Josh Radnor

  Memories, College, Treasure

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Girl, Guy, Political

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• In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

  Lou Reed

  Rocks, Perfect, Insanity

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• And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.

  Buddy Rich

  Real, Player, Thinking

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• Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

  Joan Rivers

  Thank You, Country, Fashion

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• Like most actors, I've always been grateful for Chinese restaurants; they were often the only places that stayed open late enough for performers to get hot food after the show.

  Ginger Rogers

  Grateful, Chinese, Hot

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, July, August

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• The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Motivational, Time, Attitude

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• If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Giving, Looks

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

  Jerry Saltz

  People, Haunting, Stranger

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• All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

  Jerry Saltz

  Dog, Art, War

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• Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Numbers, Space

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