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• I may sound like a megalomaniac, but I feel like I'm equipped to become a great, memorable comedian, if I keep working my ass off and staying at the pace I'm at, and I feel a responsibility to do that because of the women who have done it before me, and the ones who need to do it after me.

  Amy Schumer

  Responsibility, Comedian, Sound

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2012.

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• To make a great movie is such a combination of different things that need to come into play to actually make a memorable film and not have a film to fall by the wayside, to have something live on during the years, and one of those elements is the commitment the actors have to their performance.

  Edward Zwick

  Fall, Commitment, Years

  Source: movieweb.com

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• It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

  Alexander Smith

  Accounts, Sentences, Consequence

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.43

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• One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

  Suzanne Collins

  Book, Reader, Reluctant

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• Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to love her entire cast of distinct and memorable characters. In The Cure for Death by Lightning she fashions an irresistible song out of the joys and dangers of growing up, the mysteries and wonders of life on a farm, the thrilling terror of trying to outrun the awful unseen force that pursues a growing girl. This novel opens a door to a shining, surprising world.

  Jack Hodgins

  Girl, Fashion, Song

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• Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Weather, Meals, Enough

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• I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy, see what happens.

  Garry Marshall

  Fun, Crazy, Trying

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• My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

  Cynthia Breazeal

  Stars, War, Robots

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• Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to discover a haunted world shivering with loss and love, regret and sorrow, where the spirit world is as real as the human. I was sucked into it with the very first sentence and when I left, it was with a feeling of immense reluctance.

  Anita Rau Badami

  Beach, Powerful, Regret

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• A psychologically engrossing novel about the homes we make-in our houses, in our neighborhoods, and in the hearts of our loved ones. Laken takes on that great unspoken American subject-class-and does so with frankness, acuity and surpassing feeling. DREAM HOUSE is a memorable debut novel from a fully mature talent.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Dream, Home, Heart

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• The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

  Herodotus

  Fighting, Battle, Experts

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.479, OUP Oxford

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• Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.

  Clive James

  Poetry, Sound, Texture

  Clive James (2014). “Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• I think at times the very strong feelings I have about my country coincide with my musical ability, and I'm able to actually turn it into music, a song or even hopefully a memorable song, sometimes. You may find it surprising, but I'm a very intense, proud American. I love being an American.

  John Fogerty

  Country, Song, Strong

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. One would say that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man. There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Communication, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• From our sorrow we might seek out the sweetness and the good that is often associated with and peculiar to our challenge. We can seek out those memorable moments that are frequently hidden by the pain and agony. We can find peace in extending ourselves to others, using our own experiences to provide hope and comfort. And we can always remember with great solemnity and gratitude Him who suffered most to make it all right for us. And by so doing we can be strengthened to bear our burdens in peace. And then, the 'works of God' might be manifest.

  Richard C. Edgley

  Gratitude, Pain, Agony

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• You have to do three things really well to make a successful film. You have to tell a compelling story that has a story that is unpredictable, that keeps people on the edge of their seat where they can't wait to see what happens next. You then populate that story with really memorable and appealing characters. And then, you put that story and those characters in a believable world, not realistic but believable for the story that you're telling.

  John Lasseter

  Character, Successful, People

  "Interview: We Talk Cars 2 with John Lasseter". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, History, Researchers

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.108, Xist Publishing

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• What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed, but, like a strain of music, they are incessantly repeated and modulated by the memory. All other words crumble off with the stucco which overlies the heart. We should not dare to repeat these now aloud. We are not competent to hear them at all times.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memories, Heart, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.637, Simon and Schuster

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• I had an incredible experience living in New York, playing for the Yankees, to go through all of the things I did, including the no-hitter. It was a very memorable time.

  Jim Abbott

  New York, Yankees, Incredibles

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• The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Winter, Dark

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Experience, Endure

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.290, Delphi Classics

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• It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Woods, Forests, Lost

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut novel a real winner.

  Kathy Reichs

  Witty, Real, Character

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• I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

  Henry David Thoreau

  News, Journalism, Grasshoppers

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.148

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• They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable. All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield another such a gem.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Sky, Yield

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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