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• If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.

  Cameron Crowe

  Writing, Trying, Actors

  "Director Cameron Crowe Talks WE BOUGHT A ZOO, His Upcoming Documentary THE UNION, His Next Movie, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 21, 2011.

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• I would much rather read a book about Ty Cobb, who was quite possibly a sociopath. It makes for more interesting copy. Some of the most memorable characters in literature were villains.

  Jonathan Weeks

  Book, Character, Interesting

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• It's great to be paid, but it's better to do something original that's going to be memorable.

  Jon Gries

  Originals, Paid

  "Interview with Locker 13 Star and Uncle Rico Himself Jon Gries". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. April 07, 2014.

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• I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.

  Clive James

  Writing, People, Trying

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Ellen Rolfes, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.

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• We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other people to learn from these. We have difficulty remembering such abstractions, but we can more easily remember a good story. Stories give life to past experience. Stories make the events in memory memorable to others and to ourselves. This is one of the reasons why people like to tell stories.

  Roger Schank

  Memories, Writing, Past

  Roger C. Schank (1995). “Tell Me a Story: Narrative and Intelligence”, p.10, Northwestern University Press

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• I'm an actor, I created the character myself originally. I do tell the fans I appreciate that they think he's real. It all finally comes down to the writers who really got the character and wrote so many memorable lines.

  Creed Bratton

  Real, Character, Thinking

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• When it comes to Project Runway, for me the most memorable look ever presented goes back to season one, episode one, when Austin Scarlett created a ravishing cocktail dress out of cornhusks. It was really amazing.

  Tim Gunn

  Austin, Dresses, Looks

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• The art of moviemaking seems to get thrown away. The cinematography is gone, and the look of everything becomes of little importance. You lose the memorable images; everything looks like it's been shot at night with a security camera.

  Rob Zombie

  Art, Night, Looks

  Source: www.complex.com

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• My memory is not so good so my most memorable show is the last one I played. Songs are written with intention but they only emerge in the moment.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Memories, Lasts

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• To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.

  Jillian Medoff

  Philosophy, Political, Trying

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.

  Holt McCallany

  Opportunity, Hands, Tv Shows

  Source: collider.com

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• The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.

  John Adams

  Sports, 4th Of July, Believe

  Letter to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776

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• Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

  John Adams

  Teacher, Teaching, Made

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• Read my lips-NO NEW TAXES!

  George H. W. Bush

  Patriotic, Political, Lips

  1988 Accepting the Republican presidential nomination, 19 Aug.

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• But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.

  John Adams

  Education, Money, School

  John Adams (2016). “Papers of John Adams, Volume 18: December 1785 - January 1787”, p.218, Harvard University Press

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• Swift or smooth, broad as the Hudson or narrow enough to scrape your gunwales, every river is a world of its own, unique in pattern and personality. Each mile on a river will take you further from home than a hundred miles on a road.

  Bob Marshall

  Home, Unique, Rivers

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• I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

  Lee Grant

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

  Kathleen Norris

  Women, Unhappy, Should

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• Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

  Jessamyn West

  Nature, Memories, Women

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• A good job is largely anonymous and forgotten (but still important). A personal job, on the other hand, is humanized. It brings us closer together. It might not be remarkable, but it stands out as memorable because (however briefly) the recipient of the work was touched by someone else. Often, remarkable work is personal too, but personal might just be enough for today.

  Seth

  Jobs, Hands, Important

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• Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Graduation, Dream, Action

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• Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

  Andrew Lang

  Beautiful, Fairy, Mythology

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• I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.

  James Beard

  Simple, Eggs, Meals

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• If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

  Randy Jackson

  Song, Years, Looks

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• Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.

  Aaron Sanchez

  Home, Night, People

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