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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
William Faulkner
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Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.
Wiz Khalifa
Do not commit to a course of action based on fleeting sentiment.
3.
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
Hunter S. Thompson
Life has become infinitely enhanced since I have ceased to take it too seriously.
4.
Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
Jay Leno
'Why has no one ever heard of a Mystic Claiming the Jackpot?'
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A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.
Howard G. Hendricks
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Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
Cordell Hull
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The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.
Howard G. Hendricks
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How big is your God? The size of your God determines the size of everything.
Howard G. Hendricks
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All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.
Alain LeRoy Locke
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Absence - that common cure of love.
Lord Byron
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I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the video game business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies.
Hiroshi Yamauchi
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The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End Poverty in California]. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.
Upton Sinclair
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Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.
Jerry Seinfeld
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As Far As One-Day Cricket Is Concerned, Dhoni Is One Of The Greatest Captains Of All Times
Sourav Ganguly
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When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.
Burt Reynolds
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God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it.
Steven Curtis Chapman
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The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.
Jerry Saltz
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Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.
Leslie Nielsen
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When you think about it, some people don't like certain things, but when it comes to music, no matter who you are, where you're from, what kind of personality you've got...everyone loves music of some sort; that's what's so epic about it.
Niall Horan
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No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette.
Joe Queenan
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The coolest man in world cricket MS Dhoni delivers when it most matters!
Michael Vaughan
35.
We tried our best to buy Dhoni during IPL 1 but unfortunately failed to do so.
Vijay Mallya
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Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old "existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something.
Enrico Fermi
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A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or other people's expectations to determine the course of my life. I had decided at a much younger age that several of my beliefs should determine the course of my life...I...believe that Waengongi, the Creator, has an epic script into which my minute presence has been written.
Steve Saint
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When I die, the last thing I want to see is the six that Dhoni hit in the 2011 World Cup final.
Sunil Gavaskar
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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
Ernest Hemingway
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The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
C. S. Lewis
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But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it over and over as a tragedy, but you choose to call it an epic, that's when you start to learn what celebration is. When what you see in front of you is so far outside of what you dreamed, but you have the belief, the boldness, the courage to call it beautiful instead of calling it wrong, that's celebration.
Shauna Niequist
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Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.
Ricky Gervais
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I'd say probably the most epic experience was before the Victoria's Secret show - I think it was before the casting - and I saw Naomi Campbell at a party. I was saying that I was nervous about my walk and she said "Come to my hotel tomorrow and we're going to practice." So I went in New York and we practiced in the hallway of her hotel with all of the hotel staff watching. She just said "Don't even flinch. Keep going!" It was hilarious, but I think that was kind of a confidence booster.
Gigi Hadid
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Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.
Cassandra Clare
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Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now.
Jane McGonigal
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I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
Hunter S. Thompson