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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Iain Banks

Love, Great, Fall

I ran track, and basically played every sport.
Leigh Steinberg

Played, Track, Ran

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.
Kathy Acker

Time, Writing, Off

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.
Martin Sheen

Life, Politics, Trying

I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems.
Bjorn Lomborg

Good, Try, Problems

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.
Bjorn Lomborg

Great, Cool, Done

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.
Paul Hawken

Age, Technology, Next

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.
Jim Fowler

Treat, Social, Earth

But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.
Mariel Hemingway

Good, Experience, Strong

'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.
Laurieann Gibson

Amazing, Creativity, Dance

Basically, I'm a romantic.
Pia Zadora

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.
William Devane

Real, Try, Learn

My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.
Martin Freeman

Children, Important, Wanted

Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.
Rachel Stevens

Life, Love, Good

For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner.
Reese Witherspoon

Made, Kids, Favorite

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
Warren Christopher

Single, Person, Try

With my guys and with the way that we live out there, we work out a lot and try to eat right, but we try to basically keep it our own rhythm and our own world.
Brad Paisley

Work, Live, Try

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
Theodore Sturgeon

Write, Ideas, Fiction

Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
Uma Thurman

Men, Job, Wanted

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.
Chris Ware

Great, Trying, Friends

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.
William Petersen

Trying, Dark, Else

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.
Justin Cronin

Beauty, Sunshine, Hero

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.
Justin Cronin

Time, Thinking, Done

It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would mean that basically he is the only genius, and there are idiots all around him, which doesn't make sense.
Eric Ripert

Mean, Everything, Him

It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.
Lara Flynn Boyle

Work, Great, Home

Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
Olivia Munn

Life, Good, Pretty

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.
Mike Judge

Life, Legal, Real

I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
Yuri Milner

Time, Long, Pretty

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
Malcolm Mclaren

Why, Become, Place

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.
James Bovard

Easy, Lies, Avoid

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