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• Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we have a third generation of Lonesome Dove artistry. The same creative power and conviction that allowed Larry McMurtry to transform a workaday scenario for an unproduced screenplay into one of the greatest novels of our time, and that transformed that novel into the greatest western movie ever made, are on display in this collection. A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove is a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece.

  Stephen Harrigan

  Book, Creative, Lonesome Dove

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• Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce his belief that it would be catastrophic if it did. You are tightening the coil of his anxiety, not loosening it. All to often, the Stoics point out, things will not turn out for the best.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Worst Case Scenario, Anxiety, Would Be

  "Happiness is a glass half empty" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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• I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.

  Randall Munroe

  Math, Reality, Thinking

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• I built the ideal house down in the Caribbean. All Englishmen dream of leaving the rain of England and getting a place in the sun - out in the grounds with separate guest houses; that is the ideal scenario.

  Robin Leach

  Dream, Rain, House

  "Interview: Robin Leach interview". www.askmen.com.

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• Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally... A terrorist nuclear attack against an American city could take many forms. A worst case scenario would be the detonation of a nuclear device within a city. Depending upon the size and sophistication of the weapon, it could kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.

  David Krieger

  Islamic, Cities, Worst Case Scenario

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• While the end-of-the-world scenario will be rife with unimaginable horrors, we believe that the pre-end period will be filled with unprecedented opportunities for profit.

  Robert Mankoff

  Believe, Opportunity, World

  "Reality check: for real sustainability, some economies will need to shrink" by Erik Assadourian, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2014.

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• This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I'm like, "Who am I? Where's my heritage?

  Mike Tyson

  Real, Kids, Thinking

  "A misty-eyed Mike Tyson hankers after the bad old days" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2010.

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• There are different flavors of recession. You can get into some pretty dark scenarios pretty quickly.

  Mark Zandi

  Dark, Different, Flavor

  "A 40 Percent Chance of Economic Doom". Interview with Elizabeth Weingarten, www.slate.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

  Paul Davies

  Origin Of Life, Support, Stories

  "Life, but not as we know it" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2010.

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• My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.

  George P. Shultz

  Military, President, Use

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• In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

  Snoop Dogg

  Real, Kids, Names

  "What I've Learned: Snoop Dogg" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. July 14, 2008.

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• I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be.

  Kristin Davis

  Thinking, Careers, Littles

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• The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about - was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. [...] That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.

  Adam Gopnik

  Fear, Real, Self

  "Hurricane Irene: Storm Warnings". www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2011.

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• Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.

  Joe Shuster

  Technique, Stories, Scripts

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• It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.

  Nils-Axel Morner

  Lying, Past, Islands

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• I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.

  Max Greenfield

  Confused, Reality, Giving

  "'New Girl' Star Max Greenfield Writes Special 'Goop' Newsletter for Gwyneth Paltrow" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on 'Girls,' just to walk past one of the scenarios. I'd love that more than anything.

  Emilia Clarke

  Girl, Past, Giving

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• I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

  Bob Corker

  Regulation, Financial, Difficult

  "Corker: GOP erred on financial reform" by Victoria Mcgrane, www.politico.com. March 24, 2010.

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• In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams, our hopes, our ambitions for ourselves, for those we love - these little scenarios we play out endlessly in our mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Ambition, Buddhism

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• Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

  Matthew Sweet

  Creativity, Giving, Would Be

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• I love zombies. I don't know how else to answer that... I have trouble falling asleep, so there are certain scenarios I use in my head to relax. I find sniping zombies very relaxing.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Fall, Zombie, Relax

  "C2E2 2012: Jhonen Vasquez On The Hunger Games, And Why He'll Never Work With Ren And Stimpy's John Kricfalusi" by Danica Davidson, www.mtv.com. April 16, 2012.

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• Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.

  Tim Walker

  Butterfly, College, Stories

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• One of the problems of other MMOs combat is that you often have scenarios where you have multiple heroes beating on a single enemy. That just isn't very Heroic

  James Ohlen

  Hero, Enemy, Problem

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• For me, everyone I write of is real. I have little true say in what they want, what they do or end up as (or in). Their acts appall, enchant, disgust or astound me. Their ends fill me with retributive glee, or break my heart. I can only take credit (if I can even take credit for that) in reporting the scenario. This is not a disclaimer. Just a fact.

  Tanith Lee

  Real, Writing, Heart

  Innsmouth Free Press Interview, www.innsmouthfreepress.com.

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• I think humor is the social use. You can put anything in it. I think - yes, I speak heavily in analogies - it is like putting the medicine in apple sauce or a block of cheese for a dog. Not that anyone in this room is a dog in this scenario.

  Sloane Crosley

  Dog, Block, Thinking

  "Sloane Crosley Talks About Writing Her First Novel, The Clasp". Interview with A.M. Homes, www.vulture.com. May 31, 2015.

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