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I've come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society - and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace. Laurie Helgoe
Home Creative Society Nine Apt Kids See Ten Come Mostly Loud American Pit Childhood American Society Description Competing Number
Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes. Lionel Shriver
Few Apt Take Writers Step Issues Toes Who
The premiere of Lynne Ramsay's film of 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' at the Cannes film festival provides an apt juncture at which to celebrate the miraculous power - not of film but of fiction. Lo, I have created a monster. Lionel Shriver
Celebrate Power Monster Apt About Miraculous Talk Provides Juncture Festival Fiction Cannes Which Created Premiere Film Film Festival Need Kevin
Your kids might feel more apt to try some art of their own after viewing contemporary works that are far less intimidating than those of the Old Masters. Lynda Resnick
Art Try Old Own Intimidating Those Apt Kids Some More Feel Contemporary Masters Than After Might Far Far Less Your Viewing Less Works
When you hit a player in the head, you're more apt to get some fisticuffs or, you know, bring both teams out on the field, but it was more accepted that - in the '50s, '60s and '70s. I think nowadays it's a little over-policed because I will always believe that knocking a hitter down, even hitting a hitter at, sometimes, is part of baseball. Reggie Jackson
You Sometimes Will Field Down Believe Nowadays Think Apt Out Some More Both Part Head Knocking Know Because Accepted Always Hit Get Hitter Hitting Little Teams Even Baseball Player Bring
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. Robert Hall
Whatever Favor Apt Recommended Strongly Antiquity Authority Custom Mankind Enforced Prejudiced
The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams. Siri Hustvedt
Dreams Giving Giving Up Drop Fall Sleeping State Apt Self-Consciousness Between Altered Another Because Up Waking Gradual Being Transition Asleep Full English Expression Consciousness
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words. Teju Cole
Writing Words Else Marketing Apt Marry About Something Something Else Poets Purposes Writers Attempt Sensations Novelists
I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad. Teller
Sad Beautiful Apt Something More Cry Than
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. Walter Bagehot
Women Men Become Apt Advances Make Women Are Victims Them Who
The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive. William Hedgcock Webster
Work People Intelligence Apt More Attentive Who Conscious
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. William Penn
Love Virtue Apt Must Would More Praise Than To Love Deserve
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Best Men Advice Young Hundred Books Apt Unreal Very List Young Men Elders
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