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'Fault' became the book everybody and their mother had to read, and 'Paper Towns' is one that's beloved, but it's a bit of a smaller book.
- Wyck Godfrey
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Blank paper always symbolizes the anxiety of the painter.
- Claude Picasso
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The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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Every single person you can think of called me Paper Boi.
- Brian Tyree Henry
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Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.
- Svetlana Alexievich
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I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.
- Julien Green
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Every headline in the paper, I don't write them. My story's inside the paper, not the headline.
- Charles Oakley
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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
- Christopher Morley
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I always have pen and paper with me.
- Miller Williams
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Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.
- Edward T. Hall
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Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
- Jean Vanier
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I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.
- Anna Nicole Smith
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One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently.
- Richard Norton Smith
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I'll hear a beat and think, 'How can I make this a banger?' I'll write the lyrics on my phone or on a piece of paper, and either way, it's going to be a slapper.
- Swae Lee
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I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.
- Alan Moore
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'The Hollywood Reporter' was always in. You always got great tables. You always got great seats at screenings. You always got treated well if you were at the paper.
- Robert Osborne
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I like to make collages - paper collages.
- Rachel True
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As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.
- David Douglass
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But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.
- Daniel Okrent
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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
- Alfred Kazin
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
- Wade Davis
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The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.
- Dan Glickman
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If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream that may or may not get done.
- Summer Sanders
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Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.
- Bun E. Carlos
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I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.
- Kevin Nealon
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One of my favorite movies is 'Paper Moon.'
- Millicent Simmonds
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I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.
- David Boies
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Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of blank paper to sign for fake lithographs.
- Peter Landesman
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I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.
- S. Robson Walton
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Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.
- Bill F. Walsh
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I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.
- Jim Toomey
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No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.
- David Halberstam
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Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
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I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.
- Sarah Dessen
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My dad taught me to read by reading comic strips in the Saturday paper and Archie comics.
- Melanie Scrofano
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The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.
- Sydney Schanberg
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I prefer to be a great team not only on paper but also on the pitch. The pitch is the truth. The pitch speaks.
- Antonio Conte
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Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.
- Daphne Zuniga
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
- Nate Silver
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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
- Havelock Ellis
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I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.
- Ridley Pearson
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Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.
- Mario Vargas Llosa
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After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment.
- Nguyen Cao Ky
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The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.
- Robert Scheer
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It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.
- Robert Scheer
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Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
- Todd Solondz
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Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.
- Joe Shuster
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Think of the aged and bed-ridden Matisse cutting out strips of coloured paper, much as a child might, and investing them with a more than mortal vitality... Those strips of paper resonate because they prove that our materials don't determine in advance the worth of what we make.
- Howard Jacobson
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Research shows that when we read words on paper, it reduces our stress levels by nearly 70 percent. We also read more carefully than on tablets or laptops.
- Margaret Heffernan
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Sometimes I worry about the amount of paper I waste.
- Chris Raschka
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Arguably, it might prompt consumers to think about their consumption, with paper straws and reusable grocery bags and shared urban bicycles acting as a gateway to more meaningful changes.
- Annie Lowrey
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
- Pat Paulsen
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Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.
- Jim Capaldi
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The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.
- Timothy Murphy
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
- M.I.A.
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I'm kind of a 'Daily Show,' Bill Maher junkie. I listen to NPR and I still get the 'New York Times' paper delivered to my door, even though I live in L.A.
- Constance Zimmer
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My father, A. M. Rosenthal, edited the 'Times' for nearly 20 years and worked at the paper for many more.
- Andrew Rosenthal
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Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper.
- Elizabeth McCracken
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The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.
- Anthony Browne
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Thank God for paper ballots.
- Anibal Acevedo Vila
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I'm a pretty well-read person. I read my paper every morning.
- Tom McCarthy
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I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't.
- Padgett Powell
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I went to a quite macho art school in the 1970s, and while everyone was making hulking big sculptures, I was making things out of bits of paper.
- Cornelia Parker
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It's always fun to layer a character, to make the character a little bit more dynamic than it is on paper.
- Charles Melton
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Students can't dream big when classrooms lack books, microscopes, and robotics kits - or even paper, pencils, and paste.
- Charles Best
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It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
- Richard Steele
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My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
- Arthur Compton
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When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.
- Howard Dean
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
- J. R. Moehringer
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By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.
- Russel Honore
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I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.
- Mark Fuhrman
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I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
- Edmund Hillary
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I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
- Harold Ross
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Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.
- Lynn Johnston
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Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.
- Jack Herer
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I don't know how to plan my way out of a paper bag.
- Jedediah Bila
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Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.
- Mani Ratnam
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I'm not a computer person at all. I only know how to turn them on. I'm not a programmer. I couldn't program my way out of a paper bag.
- Rick Smolan
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It's just nice to see something from paper come to life on the screen.
- Noah Schnapp
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My fights and arguments, even with God, went down on paper.
- Curtis Mayfield
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In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.
- Michael Crichton
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You worked your paper route, mowed the lawn, then played golf all day.
- Fred Funk
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I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.
- Tracey Emin
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The only reason I'd bring a Bible out here is if I needed toilet paper.
- Rudy Boesch
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Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
- Toru Takemitsu
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I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.
- Alan Moore
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I write with pen and paper, my first draft, on legal pads.
- Jennifer Egan
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Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.
- David Fincher
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In our skulls, we carry around 3 pounds of slimy, wet, greyish tissue, corrugated like crumpled toilet paper. You wouldn't think, to look at the unappetizing lump, that it was some of the most powerful stuff in the known universe.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
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I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.
- Freida Pinto
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When you hear composer, you think, like, Beethoven: guy in a powdered wig, at a piano, furiously scribbling on manuscript paper. That's not the only image that a composer should bring up, you know. But that's kind of what we've said it is.
- Rhiannon Giddens
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I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.
- Dennis Washington
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In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.
- Lysander Spooner
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I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.
- Hilarie Burton
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My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.
- Kenneth Arrow
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I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
- Steve Martin
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
- Yanis Varoufakis
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Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.
- Oliver E. Williamson
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I definitely have, on paper, an unorthodox career path. And from childhood onward, I was always fascinated by the outdoors and wildlife.
- Eric Goode
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I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.
- Nancy Kerrigan
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