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• A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.

  Bill Mauldin

  Kids, Soldier, Progress

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• Here are the bills again, I always dread them a little. They are familiar presences: first in the mail box, then in the bill drawer, now on the desk. Services Rendered. "My life is dependent on services rendered."

  Gunilla Brodde Norris

  Littles, Bills, Firsts

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• Seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world.

  Harry Reid

  Senior, Real, Stupid

  "Reid: Save the Postal Service, seniors depend on junk mail", www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2012.

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• The Mail Online is like carbs - you know you shouldn't but you do. Probably two or three times a day.

  Lily Allen

  Two, Three, Online

  "Lily Allen: 'I'm called mouthy but I'm just talking'". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2013.

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• One fella went on the internet and got lots of photos of me in Love Actually, topless and naked and stuff, printed them off, stuck them on A4 paper, laminated them and sent them to me for me to sign. I was away and asked my husband to open all my mail for me, so he got quite a shock. And another man sent me a picture of a face where the nose was a willy.

  Joanna Page

  Husband, Men, Photo Of Me

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Running, Travel, Home

  Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.

  Julie Otsuka

  Lunch, Next Day, One Day

  Julie Otsuka (2007). “When the Emperor Was Divine”, p.54, Anchor

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• There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading The Times editorial pages and the Daily Mail sports pages.

  Lionel Barber

  Sports, Coffee, Reading

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• Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what? They might as well be about (Stan) Musial and (Joe) DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.

  Mickey Mantle

  Reading, Home, Tired

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

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• Today the Justice Department released e-mails where Walker criticized America. In the e-mails he said he never wanted to set foot in America again. See, that's the good part about hanging somebody. Their feet don't touch the ground.

  Jay Leno

  America, Feet, Justice

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• The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Father, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Technology, United States, Machines

  "Now" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2005.

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• My wife loves to shop at Bloomingdale's. I bring her mail there twice a week.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Wife

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• I love getting fan mail. Often, as a writer, you never know what your readers think of a book... you get critical reviews and sales figures, but none of that is the same as knowing you've made a person stay up all night reading, or helped them have a good cry, or really touched their life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Reading, Night

  FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

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• I got a lot of mail from organizations concerned with bike safety. Then I got a couple from people who wanted my support for mandatory helmet laws. I can't support that. If you pass a law like that you'll do more harm than good, because you'll make people think they've done something about the problem when they haven't.

  Dave Barry

  Couple, Thinking, Law

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• Times have changed since 2002 when I won a spot in the group 'Popstars.' Back in the day we would get fan letters in the mail, now you can find anyone and contact people. It's incredible how fans can have a personal connection, share photos, stories.

  Josh Henderson

  Times Have Changed, People, Connections

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• As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid Sunday laws, the stopping of travel, the distribution of the mail on that day, and the introduction of the name of God into the Constitution; and as this action on the part of some women is used as an argument for the disfranchisement of all, I hope this convention will declare that the Woman Suffrage Association is opposed to all union of Church and State, and pledges itself as far as possible to maintain the secular nature of our Government.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sunday, Names, Government

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• I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Education, Reading, College

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• He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world

  J. K. Rowling

  Sports, Sleep, Class

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• I don't answer fan mail. I don't have time for that. It's like hundreds of thousands of people who think they're going to become millionaires getting autographs from movie actors. I don't have time for those idiots. I've got stuff to do.

  Bill Murray

  Thinking, People, Fans

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• I try my hardest to not let hate mail influence me - because anybody can put out hate, it takes a much stronger person to put out themselves.

  Tyler Oakley

  Hate, Trying, Stronger

  Source: raannt.com

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• Yes. I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

  Irwin Winkler

  Rooms, Graduates, Morris

  "Irwin Winkler: A Film Producer's Producer". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. December 8, 2007.

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• Give yourself the gift of uninterrupted time. It can be the first hour of your day. Or the last hour. A lunch hour. You want time free from phone calls, visitors, mail, things to read. Unplug the phone if you have to. Lock your door. Put a sign on it that warns people of the consequences of entering. Do what you have to and watch the results. One hour of uninterrupted time can double a person's productivity for the day.

  Geri Larkin

  Phones, Doors, Lunch

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• Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

  John Darnielle

  Order, Hustle, Good Living

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• CBS News finally received anthrax in the mail. As usual, we're number three.

  David Letterman

  Numbers, Usual, Three

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