- Nov 07, 2020
Where Quotes
So much depends on where you are.
A few of these are about family upbringing and the priorities that came with it, while another traces a habit through a specific phase of life. For more everyday reflections, see our Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Density
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before 'Moonrise,' I never thought I would be in a movie where I would be struck by lightning.
- Opposite
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Thirteen Orphans' is the name of a specific limit hand. The same combination is also called 'Thirteen Improbable.' Once I'd decided I wanted to write a tale where mah-jong would be at the heart, I also knew I wanted to use limit hands.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I begged and begged, and my uncle gave me his old turntables. It was one hi-fi and one old Stereo Lab turntable and a rusty mixer. I was really chuffed. I kept that for five years - that's where I learned to mix.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am in that position where I finish something, it goes out, and I'm onto the next thing. I finish it, it goes out, onto the next thing.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020