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Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.
If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.
It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.
I believe if a sentence is to retain its strength over time, it needs to be carefully made.
There were times when I was terrified to go to school because it felt like a jail sentence.
There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader.
I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.
'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.
'No' is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?
If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.
I always want to find meaning in stuff that sucks - I don't want it to be the end of the sentence.
The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.
I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir!
Republicans aren't interested in a one-sentence fix unless that sentence is, 'Obamacare is repealed.'
Not many people whose series gets cancelled get to come and put the period at the end of the sentence.
Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward.
As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.
When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.
Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
You can't just say in one sentence what is blackness or what is black culture or what makes you who you are.
The most important thing on Earth is for all of us to make this sentence true: Compassion is what people do.
Well, I've never dropped the word 'eh.' That's still at the end of my sentence, replacing the question mark.
Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.
There is no sentence in the United States Constitution that says the president's children cannot be indicted.
If you had to say in one sentence what being Jewish means, it is being able to make fun of yourself Jewishly.
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
There are still parts of the country where it's hard: when you realize you're gay, it's like a death sentence.
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
I think it's really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
As a player you get to meet Hall of Fame members and now to have my name in the same sentence makes me speechless.