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There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.
There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.
There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.
Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.
There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.
For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.
But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?
An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.
Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.
I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.
"How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?" I always wonder.
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
I don't know if you've ever had insomnia, but it's a really terrible feeling when it's days and weeks on end. It was kind of awful.
Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me ... that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
I have always loved the Day of the Dead - a chance to celebrate death rather than to treat it like that awful scene in the cemetery.
I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I’d done to myself.
I've never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.
There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it, or paranormal or whatever.
That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.
America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.
When I left the Lampoon, I went west to try that out, and discovered that I hated it.They were awful people turning out awful product .
Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.
I've been in two long-term relationships and - this sounds awful - they were really helpful for writing heartbreak. It makes good songs.
Ever since that night I've been on the road Travelling and trying to forget That awful night I lost all my friends I see their faces yet.
I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.
I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.
Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.
God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.
In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.
I'm very direct. I don't have tantrums. I don't yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.
Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.
I was awful at science at school, as a subject, because I didn't have the discipline. But, I was awful at music, as well, and I loved music.
Being homeless is awful, but if you've ever tried to wrestle a duvet cover back onto a comforter you realise it's not without it's benefits.
I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.
My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.
I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.
Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!
I don't get to be edgy and angry, but the rewards are that I'm generally quite happy with my day. I spend an awful lot of time in a good mood.
The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.
Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.
Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.
Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
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