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• Well sometimes I do not listen to music. But when I do it could range from Frank Sinatra to Copeland. I spend a great deal of time playing the piano because it really is my salvation at times. But I am perfectly happy just going on a long bike ride that takes many days to complete and staying away from music for a bit. It always feels so fresh when you return to the instrument with a different observation of things than when you were last there.

  Tony MacAlpine

  Piano, Long, Different

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• I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of sometimes atrocious emotions - well-documented firings, yellings, fights between directors and actors, hookers, abusive things, budget overages, lack of preparation. A man gets a standing ovation for crying because he's so sensitive, but a woman is shamed.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Fighting, Men, Yelling

  "The Women of Hollywood Speak Out" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. November 20, 2015.

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• A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure.

  Jennifer Michael Hecht

  Believe, Possibility, Scales

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• I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad. Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Heart, Doors

  Helen Keller (1903). “Optimism, My Key of Life”

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• I am not attracted to writers by style. What style do Dickens, Grass, and Vonnegut have in common? How silly! I am attracted to what makes them angry, what makes them passionate, what outrages them, what they applaud and find sympathetic in human beings and what they detest about human beings, too. They are writers of great emotional range.

  John Irving

  Silly, Emotional, Style

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• The job of the president of the United States is not to love his wife; it's to manage a wide range of complicated issues.

  Matthew Yglesias

  Jobs, Issues, Wife

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• Imagine someone telling you that by taking a certain drug you could win a single event and be three times richer, famous for life in your country-and it won't hurt anyone. What would you say? There's a wide range of ethics among the riders.

  Ned Overend

  Country, Hurt, Winning

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• You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.

  John Scott

  Golf, Snow, Balls

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• Japan and South Korea are on high alert after North Korea successfully launched a long-range rocket. Both countries are surprised by North Korea's successful launch, but definitely not as surprised as North Korea.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Country, Successful, Japan

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• They said these North Korean missiles had enough range to hit Seattle, but residents in Seattle were not worried. Today Bill Gates said Microsoft has enough missiles to destroy North Korea ten times over.

  Jay Leno

  Korea, Microsoft, Bills

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• There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If you don't know any grandmasters, it's not because you haven't encountered them, but rather because their art is hidden in plain sight.

  Peter Thiel

  Art, Sight, Novices

  "Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future". Book by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters, September 18, 2014.

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• Part of an actor's job is to actually adopt the world-view of the character she is playing and to tell the story from that vantage point. If an actor represses large aspects of their personality, they will have a severely limited range and castability. Great actors cultivate effortless access to their subpersonalities. Many acting teachers call this 'freeing your instrument.'

  Jack Lemmon

  Teacher, Jobs, Character

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• I would never want to write a character who was not thoroughly herself or himself. She's a very specific creature in my mind, and she has her thoughts, which range from skin to American history, philosophy, and the arts.

  Lynne Tillman

  Art, Philosophy, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I always feel like I have got so much to write about, when it comes to writing for the album. I still think that even though my songs are written from my perspective, I think that all age-ranges can relate to the songs.

  Pixie Lott

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of people outside of the academy.

  Henry Giroux

  Media, People, Needs

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• I think 99% of climate scientists would agree that we need to reduce emissions as quickly as possible, and then begin removing greenhouse gasses and carbon from the air. And if we don't do that we are looking at some range of catastrophe.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Thinking, Air, Climate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've worked in several different places, most of my experience comes from spending eight summers at a camp for adults with a wide range of disabilities. For six years I spent every summer living in a small cabin with five men with Downes Syndrome. It was just me and these five guys, all in their forties and fifties. We had such a great time.

  Arthur Bradford

  Summer, Men, Eight

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• In most homes, from what I know of them, even though the woman's place in that particular home might be in the home, still, she is queen of her house. So I like exploring the many different incarnations of women in that country, actually. You find quite a range of these women in this book - each one of them embodies a completely different personality type. And how can you write a book that's only full of men, anyway? I mean, half the population of this world is women.

  Anita Rau Badami

  Country, Queens, Book

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a CERTAIN type of music that any artist should be confined to, in my opinion.

  Ab-Soul

  Artist, People, World

  Source: thepoetryquestion.com

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• Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "

  Henry Rosovsky

  Moving, College, Asian

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I don't revise a lot when writing short stories. As far as the novel, I definitely thought more about plot. Honestly, I'm still pretty confused about what "plot" means. I've been reading some of my Goodreads reviews and one reader noted that the The Last Days of California "reads like a short story stretched to the breaking point, padded and brought into novel range..." I don't know what people want, really.

  Mary J. Miller

  Confused, Reading, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think about my cocaine use. I liked it. I thought it was a great drug. But I knew that if I was doing that almost exclusively, I wouldn't be able to continue to also have significant others and a wide range of other things. And I wasn't special. A number of people, including the people I was doing cocaine with, also behaved the same way.

  Carl Hart

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do have magical powers, I try to use them for good and not evil, but I can pretty much make anyone do whatever I want them to do, if they're within range.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Evil, Trying, Use

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• As a listener, I like a wide range of sounds.

  Erin McKeown

  Sound, Listeners, Wide

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a consumer of culture, I like a wide range of emotions to be touched in art. It's funny but on the other side of it, I do feel that people that are trying to sell culture would like to see a narrower range of expression from their content-makers. Easier to sell I guess.

  Erin McKeown

  Art, Expression, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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