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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

Almost Any Been Book
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I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Almost Beat Best Best Way
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

Chapters Opening Genre Read
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
Almost Culture Dead Happening
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The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.

Almost Artist Considers Ego
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

About Almost Any Anything
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

Almost Attraction Banks Element
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We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

Almost Cases Hard HardWork
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Executives Scientist Business school Believe
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I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per say, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Almost Creature Earth Internet
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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Almost Almost Anything Anything Better
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
Age Almost Entitlement Instant
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The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

Again Almost Basic Believe
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

Almost Behind Carrier Compensation
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

Almost Almost Everyone Everyone Me
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Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.
Area Gray Gray Area Over
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I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches, and I do this voluntarily.

Almost Am Catholic Churches
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Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Hope Powerful Magic Things Happen
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Surfing big waves is not an extreme sport to me. I fall off, tumble down, and come up. My heart's racing because I'm thinking I almost drowned, and I thank God I can breathe again, but I always think, 'What am I hitting?' Water.

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I get newspapers from Britain and other countries twice a week and read them almost page to page. Sometimes I find I'm reading things I don't even need to read, because my mind is still hungry.

Almost Because Britain Countries
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

Cartooning Good fit Never think
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What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.

Almost Audience British Distinct
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Everywhere Greater part Human wisdom
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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

Almost Artist Chaos Confusion
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My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Almost AlmostAll Book Dead
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I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

Always Books Civility Depth
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Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel

Almost Consume Death Death Penalty
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Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

Almost Centuries Like Other
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If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years.

Almost Because Been Cash
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Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

Serious stories World Failure Death
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I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

Age Almost Digital Happy
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For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly, and that's the stage. Being on stage fills my soul in many ways, almost completely. It's my vice.

Almost Am Been Being
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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

About Almost Any Himself
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I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.

Almost Always Class Compelled
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so

Almost Any Creed Cult
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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Almost Amount Around Enormous
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My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything.

Almost AlmostEverything Everything Fact
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If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Almost Bad Body Chill
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As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.

About Adopted Almost Find
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I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

Able Almost Am Any
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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

Almost Around Began College
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Almost Friend He Indispensable
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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Almost Friend He Indispensable
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Actually Almost Anybody Best
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In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality

Appearance Power Important Reality
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Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

Almost America China Country
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As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

Almost AlmostAnything Anything Bull
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Whatever True Dangerous Near truth
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It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

Admit Almost Books Long
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