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• The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

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• I am someone who values truth – actual truth as opposed to ‘truthiness.’

  John Hodgman

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• The difference between art about death and actual death is that one’s a celebration and the other’s a dull fact.

  Damien Hirst

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• Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

  Imogen Heap

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• I like fishing. Not actual fishing – I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It’s different.

  Rafael Nadal

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• The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

  Octavia Spencer

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• No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you’re going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it.

  David R. Ellis

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• If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.

  Ian McDiarmid

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• Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.

  Frederick Soddy

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• Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can’t contrive a song.

  Gene Clark

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• Actually, I didn’t make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn’t bring that up, actually.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

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• Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

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• I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain.

  Ray Walston

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• Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

  Will Rogers

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• Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.

  Peter Ackroyd

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• An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

  George Santayana

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• Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

  Mason Cooley

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• The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.

  Ann Coulter

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