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I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.
- Ben Gibbard
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As a 4-star admiral, I visited over a hundred U.S. embassies all around the world, and I never failed to see lines of locals seeking visas to our nation.
- James G. Stavridis
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I've never used chat-up lines; I don't have the gift of the gab.
- Ricky Whittle
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It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.
- Charles Lyell
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I don't do chat-up lines. Girls often tell me I'm cheeky. Being cheeky seems to work OK for me.
- Jermain Defoe
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I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.
- Jimmy Page
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Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
- Barry Sonnenfeld
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The bad boys get all the best lines.
- Ian McShane
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The bad guys probably get the better lines, don't they? And they wear less spandex. That would be quite good.
- David Tennant
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Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.
- Alexander Kluge
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I went along to the audition and I had one page of lines, and I didn't think it went particularly well.
- Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
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I came to the destruction of volume by the use of the plane. This I accomplished by means of lines cutting the planes. But still, the plane remained too intact. So I came to making only lines and brought the colour within the lines. Now the only problem was to destroy these lines also through mutual oppositions.
- Piet Mondrian
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Rappers should sit down and construct quality lines.
- Gza
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Hundreds a year are killed inspecting power lines, inspecting gas lines and cellphone towers. They fall. There are helicopter crashes. We can eliminate all that with autonomous drones and artificial intelligence.
- Brian Krzanich
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Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
- Alec Baldwin
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I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
- Patricia Clarkson
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Protecting the dignity and the security our seniors have earned is a commitment that spans generations and party lines.
- Tom Rooney
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Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.
- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
- Salman Khan
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Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
- William Strunk, Jr.
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If I had to write a novel, I'd start crying after three lines.
- Pam Shriver
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The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.
- Harold Russell
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The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.
- Pieter Zeeman
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Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.
- James Longstreet
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I think there's a culture in Rajasthan Royals that has been there before I got here, so I've come into it. I've enjoyed being part of it and embraced it. They are quite clear about the fact that bottom lines are important, and there is a certain limit on what you can spend.
- Rahul Dravid
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The fiction I'm most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.
- Raymond Carver
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I consider I've had a good day when, among the lines I've written, I've produced from my innermost core what I call 'the appearance of the pearl.' That could refer to a discovery, a sense of harmonious cohesiveness, or something like that.
- Ismail Kadare
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Right after Dynasty ended I had a facelift and laser surgery to get rid of lines around my eyes.
- Linda Evans
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Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.
- Spencer Tracy
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I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.
- John Logan
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Once during a taping there was an actor who kept blowing his lines. It happened again and again. Finally Norman Fell came out-he wasn't even in that scene. But Norman came out and you know what he did? He killed the guy with a hammer.
- John Ritter
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The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.
- Michael Badnarik
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Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
- Fred Thompson
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Convergence and the blurring of lines across industries creates the opportunity for women to really excel.
- Lynne Doughtie
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I love having time to prepare my lines and more time off.
- Tom Welling
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If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.
- Abbi Jacobson
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As soon as you 'Botox' your smile lines away, you lose part of your identity.
- Nigel Barker
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We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.
- John Schlesinger
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Firmino is the most decisive player because he comes to play between the lines and opens the spaces to his team-mates.
- Carlo Ancelotti
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One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.
- Jane Kaczmarek
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I'm from the suburbs and where I'm from didn't necessarily have people like you see in 'Suburgatory,' but along those lines and I think people will laugh at themselves. And it's lighthearted.
- Jane Levy
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As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines.
- James Longstreet
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'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.
- Christine Quinn
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The police is using decaying equipment. The military, which has also been on the front lines in combating domestic terrorism, has been doing so with outdated and insufficient equipment.
- Nayib Bukele
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It's strange how 'Fawlty' has become a perennial. I keep meeting new generations of schoolboys who know the lines better than I did when I said them. The program has sensational sales in video. I'm mercifully on a small percentage.
- Prunella Scales
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I'm not into that method acting thing. I just turn up, say my lines and go home.
- Marc Warren
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I'd like to fly. Then I wouldn't have to wait in airport security lines.
- Jim Morris
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I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.
- Sharon Horgan
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It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.
- Giles Foden
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In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.
- Aloe Blacc
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Tennis players need to be very focused and very intense, and I can show tennis players are not just hitting the little yellow ball and moving in between the white lines. I'm always trying to show my personality outside of the court.
- Tomas Berdych
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I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
- Fran Drescher
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David Brooks - every time I see him, I like him. He breaks lines, runs beyond, and I like him a lot.
- Craig Bellamy
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I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.
- Brian Ferneyhough
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No pickup lines! They're the worst. But I love jokes.
- Sylvia Hoeks
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We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.
- Jonathan Haidt
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From the rugged cliffs of Cape Liptrap peninsula jutting bravely into the swells of Bass Strait, the coast arcs southeast, hugging the waters of Waratah Bay with sweeping flat lines of fine pale sand and knotty scrub.
- Tim Cope
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There is a healthy disrespect among veterans who served on the front lines for people who walk around telling war stories.
- Seth Moulton
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We know that in 2001 it was believed 78 stem cell lines existed. But now we know there are only 22 that are viable, and they have been contaminated with mouse stem cells.
- Russ Carnahan
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Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.
- Thomas Lynch
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I do have the cheesiest of cheesy chat-up lines used on me.
- Jesse Metcalfe
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I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
- Jaclyn Smith
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My first role was an angel in the nursery nativity. I spotted my mum halfway through and shouted over someone else's lines to ask if she liked my costume. I've learnt not to do that now.
- Emily Berrington
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'Indiana Jones' was me growing up. I could quote lines from 'Tango and Cash' as much as I could quote lines from 'The Searchers'.
- Jeff Nichols
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It's one thing to know your lines, another to be able to deliver them. The taste of the pudding is in the delivery.
- Jeffrey Wright
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The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.
- Mitchell Baker
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I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines.
- GRiZ
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I don't divide my reading into demographic categories, any more than I'd divide my friends into groups along ethnic or sexual lines. The thing I look for most is a sense of literary rawness - bareback fiction, if you will.
- Christopher Fowler
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Well, I did two lines on a TV show called 'Cleopatra 2525' really badly with an American accent; it was terrible!
- Zoe Bell
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The least amount of info actors get, the better. Actors are always like, 'What is my motivation for this?' You didn't write it. Just say the lines.
- Steve Howey
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I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.
- Keith Haring
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'Quick Change' was my first real movie. It was an interesting audition process because there were no lines in the script. Bill Murray's character would say something, and Geena Davis and Randy Quaid would say something, and then it would just say, 'The cabbie speaks.' How do you audition for that?
- Tony Shalhoub
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I definitely want to study global health. Right now I'm working on all the prerequisite core curriculum that Columbia has. So getting all of that out of the way. And I definitely want to pursue something along the lines of public health.
- Kelsey Chow
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The degree to which campaigns have become dominated by marketing is breaking the spirit of democracy, and we're all just so sick of it, across party lines.
- David Weinberger
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I love wearing baggy jackets and tops. I love those kinds of jerseys with lines on them as well. I love sneakers too, especially white sneakers, and I like knitted hats too.
- Lisa
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Hesitating and hand-wringing when confronted by violence discourages the human-rights activists on the front lines and emboldens the enemy.
- Richard Grenell
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My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
- Al Capone
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I played soccer in the Alps when I was a kid. There was a blizzard that happened. And little local German kids were out there shoveling lines. Keeping it moving.
- Pat McAfee
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
- Vera Farmiga
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Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.
- Christine Baranski
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It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.
- Jefferson Davis
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As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.
- Demian Bichir
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Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.
- Tommy Mottola
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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
- Jean Genet
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I've written 26 books and novellas as Molly O'Keefe. I moved through three different Harlequin lines and into single-title romance with Bantam writing under that name. Fun fact: It's not my name, and it's not even one I picked.
- Molly O'Keefe
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My father-in-law has ear hair like a wolverine. It fans out from the auricles, wafting from the ridge lines like cilia, like gray feathered plumage.
- Rosecrans Baldwin
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When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.
- Don McLean
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I'd love to do a musical on the lines of 'Salangai Oli,' 'Sankarabharanam' and 'Sindhu Bhairavi.'
- D. Imman
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Digital disruption has blurred industry lines. You have industry convergence. You have cross-industry platforms. And you have CEOs who are benchmarking the best, regardless of industry.
- Julie Sweet
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I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.
- John Burns
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Stretching before and after every workout keeps muscles supple and helps elongate the lines of a ballerina's limbs.
- Mary Helen Bowers
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A lot of things matter in comedy - the script, the lines, your timing, the co-actor's timing, how it's shot.
- Jitendra Kumar
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I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem.
- Peggy Lipton
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We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.
- Libba Bray
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One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
- Anita Diament
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I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
- Anthony Storr
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Poems are not read: they are reread. Reread the poem, then read between the lines, then look at it, then watch it, then peek at it: handle it like an object. Contemplate its shadows, angles and dimensions.
- Terrance Hayes
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I handwrite out all my lines. I like to see my handwriting, and I like to keep my notes over time.
- George Eads
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I use this method to bring emotion into my performance. I recite my lines in English first, and then switch back to the original lines when shooting begins.
- Amy Jackson
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
- Ulrich Beck
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