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If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.
Scott McCloud

Good, Pretty, Getting

A sitcom. I hate that word.
Angela Lansbury

When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.
Jim Thome

Time, Decision, Sense

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.
Ciaran Hinds

Artists, Lightly

To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.
Ron Suskind

Power, Simple, Ignore

I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.
Kathy Reichs

Family, Home, Off

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
Robert Jackson

Religion, Politics, Opinion

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
Charles Peguy

Same, Another, Writer

The word 'no' is a very good word in a singer's repertoire.
Kiri Te Kanawa

Good, Singer, Repertoire

Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.
Boyd Rice

Somebody, Satan, Considered

Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.
Amy Ray

Music, Time, God

Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word out of the platform means that the Democrats across America are godless.
Dick Durbin

God, America, Others

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.
Edward Grey

Strength, Strong, Moment

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'
Stan Brakhage

Before, Alive, Beginning

Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.
Connie Chung

Time, Through, Talk

We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait.
Bobby Farrelly

Long, Him, Said

The word of God - what does it say about what his place is going to be in the Kingdom? Think about it.
Stephen Baldwin

God, Place, Kingdom

Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the best word for it.
Shayne Ward

Women, Best, Live

The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.
Adelbert von Chamisso

Respect, Humility, Moment

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.
Margaret Smith

Best, Frequently, Repeated

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
Gilbert Murray

Fact, Often, Meaning

Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
Oliver Joseph Lodge

Life, May, Whatever

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
Oliver Joseph Lodge

Death, Fear, Birth

They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
Barney Ross

Her, Ourselves, Coming

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.
Timothy Garton Ash

Past, Violence, Few

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.
Margaret Haddix

Love, Words, Trying

My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother.
Kaya Scodelario

Love, Food, Mother

I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.
Brent Spiner

Business, Show, Concern

I don't think any of my kids would have a good word to say about me. I think they deny that they even know me. At school, they pretend they are Anton du Beke's kids.
Rob Brydon

Good, School, Kids

Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.
James Woods

Same, Means, Basic

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