- Planet
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- Nov 07, 2020
How Quotes
The questions behind every choice.
This set of how quotes covers a range of specific curiosities, from wondering how an R rating limits a film's audience to asking how a franchise could work without its signature character. Several reflect on the practical 'how' behind creative decisions rather than abstract philosophy. Related reflections continue in our About quotes.
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- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fifteen years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the United States government still has little idea how many foreign travelers overstay their visas annually and remain in the U.S.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Spending Control Act. It would recreate President Reagan's grace commission to have a bipartisan commission on how we reduce spending.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's how life is: there are peaks and valleys in life, and that's how I like to write songs.
- Fairy
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began to write, I was surprised at how little London had been used in crime fiction. Places such as Edinburgh or Oxford or L.A. seemed to have stronger identities.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can't find jobs. It's how desperate the job situation is in the United States.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
- Freaked
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- Nov 07, 2020