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• I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

  Sidney Poitier

  Intellectual, Fans, Action

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• I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.

  Tony Abbott

  Stress, Exercise, Release

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

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• Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

  Ed Koch

  New York, Aqua, Cities

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• During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

  Jonathan Kozol

  School, Black And White, Achievement

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• I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Self Esteem, Issues, Lucky

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• I thought ['Sailcloth'] was a terrific script. Elfar Adalsteins, the director, is bound to be a director we'll hear from, and the whole thing was really enjoyable.

  John Hurt

  Directors, Scripts, Enjoyable

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

  Bruce Willis

  Singing, Film, Justin

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• Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Perspective, Fancy, Hell

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.398, Delphi Classics

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• What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

  J. D. Salinger

  Book, Reading, Memorable

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 3

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• Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise.

  J.R. Ward

  Bisexual, Vampire, Kidnapping

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.348, Penguin

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• Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

  Edith Wharton

  Discovery, Innocence, Irritated

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.28, VM eBooks

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• Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Squares, Bending, Pavement

  Jeanne DuPrau (2016). “The City of Ember Complete Series”, p.198, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

  Stephen King

  Real, Writing, Differences

  "Stephen King says ‘Twilight’ author ‘can't write’". www.today.com. February 4, 2009.

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• You're terrific as far as I am concerned.

  E. B. White

  Concerned

  "Fictional character: Charlotte". "Charlotte's Web", www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• I held hands with her all the time...that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Moving, Thinking

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• I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Girl, Crazy

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• This is terrific! What fun! Maybe tomorrow I can go to the prom with my brother. The day after, perhaps I can wear white pants and unexpectedly get my period.

  Jen Lancaster

  Brother, Fun, Maybe Tomorrow

  Jen Lancaster (2008). “Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pi e is Not The Answer”, p.191, Penguin

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• Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Fighting, Thinking, Actors

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 31, 2003.

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• Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.

  Raymond Carver

  Morning, Lying, Book

  Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.135, Vintage

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• I like generals. I think generals are terrific. You know, they go through schools and sort of end up at the top of the pyramid. And it's like a test.

  Donald Trump

  School, Thinking, Pyramids

  "Exclusive: Donald Trump on Cabinet picks, transition process". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2016.

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• I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

  Hugh Jackman

  Love, Fall, Men

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• Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

  William Shatner

  Ideas, Done, Pieces

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• As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Lava, Madness

  Virginia Woolf (1978). “A Reflection of the Other Person”, Chatto & Windus

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• a novel is not born of a single idea. The stories I've tried to write from one idea, no matter how terrific an idea, have sputtered out and died by chapter three. For me, novels have invariably come from a complex of ideas that in the beginning seemed to bear no relation to each other, but in the unconscious began mysteriously to merge and grow. Ideas for a novel are like the strong guy lines of a spider web. Without them the silken web cannot be spun.

  Katherine Paterson

  Strong, Writing, Ideas

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• We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Morning, Waiting, Missing

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