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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

Because Better Book Gets
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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

Annoying Book Come Enough
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

Absence After Argument Lot
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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

Air Come Never Over
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Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Bottom Come Defeated Down
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

Great deal Children Problem Original solution
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The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

Come Done Few Force
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I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Best Come Far I Love
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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.

Again Almost Always Am
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Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

Men Giving Mona Lisa Come Up
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Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

Better Come Get How
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What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.

Alive Angles Come Create
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Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

Everything Goes up Come down
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I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.

Going Know Laugh Lock
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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Children Come Curriculum Early
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Watching dudes come up is one of my biggest joys.

Biggest Come Dudes Joys
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A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

Asked Come Done Get
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I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

Beam Got Here I Think
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Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.

Always Been Confined Find
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A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Fiction Fear Demands Whether
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I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

Anticipate Challenge Come Confidence
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I really love when people come up to me on the street and say, 'You're my favorite rapper.'

Come Favorite Love Me
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Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

About Came Career Down
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The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

Brilliant Builders Came Comprehensive
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I was a little-known political consultant until Bill Clinton made me. When he came upon hard times, I felt it my duty - whatever my personal misgivings - to stick by him.

Bill Bill Clinton Came Clinton
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He knew that a middle-aged man can be so desperate for wisdom he may try to make some up, and how deadly that can be to a youngster who believes him.

Middle age Man So desperate Wisdom
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The only way you’d be able to bring me down is if you brought me up here.

Only way Bring me down You Here
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We understand the current situation might not be favorable to everyone in our great state of Kano, as such we have come up with a plan to reduce the financial strain that might come with the lockdown.

We understand Current situation Favorable Everyone
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By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

By space The universe Encompasses Swallows
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Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

Kids Genuine Come up Talk
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What I really appreciate is the people who come up and say, 'Thank you for representing our country.

What Really appreciate The people Come up
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How can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

The world Chaos Many coincidences Similarities
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I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

I spread Message Hope Unity
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When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.

When Reach Stars Get one
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Don’t worry that you can’t seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You’ll get better and better.

Don't worry Winners Project Fun
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I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Rejection Someone Wake Retreat
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I'm an old-fashioned girl. And I love gospel. I like things that lift me up, inspire me.

Girl Love Gospel Inspire
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I have to constantly remind myself that the fact that somebody tried to mess me up, it’s not enough reason to quit or to rule out success.

Remind myself To mess Me up Enough reason
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I like challenges. The fact that he's 7-feet, a completely mobile guy, it's going to pump me up.

Like Challenges Fact Going
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I've always loved to combine different scents to come up with my own unique thing.

Loved Different Come up Unique
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I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

Hard work Pray God Despair
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