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• Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

  Toni Morrison

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  Tags in Articulation, Rather, Writing

• I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

  Kurt Cobain

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Things, Pretty, Rather, Really, Instead, Just

• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  C. S. Lewis

  Topics in Art, Friendship, Inspirational

  Tags in Survival, Unnecessary, Give, Things, Rather, Value, Philosophy, Those

• And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.

  John Sexton

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• For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.

  Daniel Morgan

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  What is broken is broken – and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

  Margaret Mitchell

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• A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Topics in Nature

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• I’d rather say no and have said no and do say no often. I walk away from projects if it doesn’t feel right; if it’s not the right team of people pulling in together or if the script isn’t right. It could be a great idea but the script doesn’t work.

  Blair Underwood

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  Tags in Rather, Said

• I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

  Fred Allen

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  Don’t choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful.

  Alice Sebold

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• I’m a rather decisive type.

  P. J. O'Rourke

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• I’d rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

  Florence King

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• I would rather have not gone through any of the litigation that I’ve had to go through.

  Sienna Miller

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  Tags in Rather, Through

• With the rise of cable, network is clearly floundering because the characters on cable are far more fascinating than they are on network. Network television is trying to figure it out. Network television really relies on story rather than character, and cable relies on character.

  Dylan McDermott

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  Tags in Character, Rather, Trying

• I mean, I always think when you’re an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.

  Dylan McDermott

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• I was rather a fat little boy.

  Cyril Cusack

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• Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

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  Tags in Home, Why, Rather

• I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.

  Walton Goggins

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  Tags in Rather, Old

• I would rather just do the things I want to do.

  Stanley Tucci

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• And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

  F. L. Lucas

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