I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

Don DeLillo

America Book Come Europe

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You have been praying for your leaders and their families, it's time you pray for yourself and your family; you too deserve to live.

Shehu Sani

Praying Leaders Families Pray

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When the stock of food and water in the homes of the people are exhausted, there will be nothing else left to fear and no law or directives left to be obeyed.

Shehu Sani

Food Obeyed Stock Homes

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The day garri go finish for poor man house, Corona go know say nobody de fear am, for now make he de continue dey brag shaa.

Shehu Sani

Day Garri Poor Corona

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It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

Don DeLillo

Attain Eating Ever Form

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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

Aaron Sorkin

Issues Terribly Black White

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E. E. Cummings

Days Laughter Most Wasted

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

E. E. Cummings

Become Courage Grow Grow Up

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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E. E. Cummings

Any Believe Curiosity Delight

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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

E. E. Cummings

Imagine Living Living Thing Only

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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

E. E. Cummings

Wonderful World Is Mud

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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E. E. Cummings

Anything Careful Little Love

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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

E. E. Cummings

Began Had His Instant

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It takes three to make a child.

E. E. Cummings

Child Make Takes Three

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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

E. E. Cummings

Children Clocks Fathers Indians

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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

E. E. Cummings

Because Buy Drink Hard

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

E. E. Cummings

Buried Dead Imagination Knowledge

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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

E. E. Cummings

Autumn Away Blown I Think

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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

E. E. Cummings

Better Body Like More

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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

E. E. Cummings

Any Battle Being Best

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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

E. E. Cummings

Alive Being Dead Isn't

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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

E. E. Cummings

Amazing Blue Day Dream

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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

E. E. Cummings

Bird Dance How Learn

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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

E. E. Cummings

Always Any Creation Destroy

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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

E. E. Cummings

Better Fate Kisses Than

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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

E. E. Cummings

Any Else Love Makes

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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

E. E. Cummings

Door Go Good Hell

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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

E. E. Cummings

Always Answer Ask Beautiful

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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

E. E. Cummings

Arse Everyone Except Man

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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

E. E. Cummings

Because Black Dislike He

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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

E. E. Cummings

Anybody He Little Made

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Nothing recedes like progress.

E. E. Cummings

Like Nothing Progress Recedes

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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

Aaron Sorkin

Different Manner Might Much

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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

Aaron Sorkin

About Any Anything Day

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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

Aaron Sorkin

About Asleep Census Certainly

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Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

Aaron Sorkin

Asked Attention Drama Gotten

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It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

Aaron Sorkin

Entertainment First Foremost Good

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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

Aaron Sorkin

Area Communication Communication Skills Day

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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

Aaron Sorkin

Anything Goes Inside Limited

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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do

Aaron Sorkin

About Great Kings Old

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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

Aaron Sorkin

Bone Close Eight Episode

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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Aaron Sorkin

Borrow Good Great Other

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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

Aaron Sorkin

About Beyond Dialogue Drama

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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Aaron Sorkin

Audience Bad Getting Good

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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

Aaron Sorkin

Business Business Model Consequence Happy

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Decisions are made by those who show up.

Aaron Sorkin

Decisions Made Show Those

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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

Aaron Sorkin

Change Change The World Ever Forget

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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

Aaron Sorkin

Change Come Each Expect

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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

Aaron Sorkin

Friends Nothin Seen You

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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Aaron Sorkin

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1667 Playwright Quotes

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

Don DeLillo

You have been praying for your leaders and their families, it's time you pray for yourself and your family; you too deserve to live.

Shehu Sani

When the stock of food and water in the homes of the people are exhausted, there will be nothing else left to fear and no law or directives left to be obeyed.

Shehu Sani

The day garri go finish for poor man house, Corona go know say nobody de fear am, for now make he de continue dey brag shaa.

Shehu Sani

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

Don DeLillo

You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

Aaron Sorkin

E. E. Cummings

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

E. E. Cummings

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E. E. Cummings

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

E. E. Cummings

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

E. E. Cummings

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E. E. Cummings

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

E. E. Cummings

It takes three to make a child.

E. E. Cummings

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

E. E. Cummings

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

E. E. Cummings

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

E. E. Cummings

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

E. E. Cummings

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

E. E. Cummings

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

E. E. Cummings

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

E. E. Cummings

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

E. E. Cummings

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

E. E. Cummings

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

E. E. Cummings

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

E. E. Cummings

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

E. E. Cummings

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

E. E. Cummings

Nothing recedes like progress.

E. E. Cummings

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

Aaron Sorkin

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

Aaron Sorkin

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

Aaron Sorkin

Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

Aaron Sorkin

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

Aaron Sorkin

It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

Aaron Sorkin

There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

Aaron Sorkin