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I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories. Jimmy Breslin

Writing Long Became Boy Stories Started Copy

My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well. Joe Sacco

People Gaza Guide Out Pretty Trip Had He Over Well Trying Show Show People Palestine Bring Copy Last

I can't tell you all my secrets to how I can eat so many. Someone out there might copy it. But I will tell you this: The night before the competition, I sleep only four hours. That means when I actually do eat, my stomach will want to digest the food quicker. Joey Chestnut

Food You Competition Will Before Digest Secrets Out Tell Eat Someone Only Hours How Quicker Stomach Want Might Means Many Actually Four Copy Night Sleep

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author. John Hodgman

Book Own My Own How Am Author Dedicated Actually Copy

I write in all sorts of places; it's a legacy of my time as a journalist, where I could turn out copy in a hotel corridor. But I have a little office that I rent in my local town, and that's my ideal place. Jojo Moyes

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging. Jonathan Davis

Change People Invented Simply Like Annoying Course Sound Quite Just Flattering Us Avoid Who Challenging Copy

First. I began my career as a copy girl. and the White House coverage, for example, was in the then-Women's section. So it was social coverage. It wasn't news, although we often got rather startling news out of it. Judith Martin

At a meet and greet in a nightclub in Texas, a girl who looked about 15 years old gave me a VHS copy of 'Adventures in Babysitting,' and she whispered in my ear that it's really just home movie footage of her dad practicing judo. Katya Zamolodchikova

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I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it. I loved that they liked it. They sound really great on it. I already have it - I'm so VIP with my copy on my computer! It does sound really good. Kelly Clarkson

Love Good Great Me Lie Song Cute Tell Direction Computer Liked Does Got Sound Loved Really Album Copy VIP

I started off as a rapper from Thunder Bay, Ontario, believe it or not. There was a little group of 10 or 12 of us that would get together and copy each other's cassettes. So I was a rapper first, and it was that music that got me into this great entertainment world and got me out of Thunder Bay. Kevin Durand

Music Great Me Entertainment Together World Rapper First Group Believe Other Out Bay Would Entertainment World Ontario Thunder Got Off Get Get Together Little Us Each Started Copy

Tesla Motor's original business plan had a copy of a letter from Nikola Tesla from the late 19th century talking about the challenges inherent in gasoline engines and the promise of the electric engine. Kimbal Musk

Business Challenges Late Promise About Had Talking Tesla Motor Century Plan Inherent Electric Engine Engines Original Letter Copy Gasoline

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth. Koichi Tanaka

Family Me Acceptance Parents Submit Other Birth Secret Mental Anguish Obliged Were Official After Decided Inform The Secret Of Register Much Noticed Among Things Copy Receiving University

The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties. Laura Moser

Work Editing Other Side Late-Night Gigs Seemed Attempted Knew Well Were Waitressing Friends Than Newspaper Far Far Less Paid Less Who Twenties Grueling Early Copy

At some point, I picked up an old library copy of 'To The Lighthouse' someone had bought for 25 cents. I began to read and didn't stop until the sun had blistered my back. A mysterious rightness, a beautiful submerged truth had invaded me, one that has ever since seemed slightly beyond my grasp. Lauren Groff

Beautiful Truth Me Library Old Back Slightly Sun Some Invaded Seemed Someone Point Mysterious Had Picked Bought Lighthouse Since Beyond Until Read Began Up Submerged Stop Cents Grasp Ever Copy

We call ourselves creators and we just copy. Lauryn Hill

Ourselves Call Just Creators Copy

Copywriting probably did make me a commercial writer. Nobody wants to read advertising copy, so you have to keep it punchy; you almost have trick them into reading it. You have to make every sentence work. Liane Moriarty

Work Me You Reading Every Trick Writer Almost Nobody Advertising Make Read Commercial Did Wants Them Sentence Keep Copy

My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters. Lincoln Child

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I don't smoke, so they never sent me a copy. Lita Ford

Me Never Smoke Sent Copy

Billy Barnes signed me and got me my first role in an interracial love story filmed in Atlanta called 'Together For Days' with Clifton Davis. My mother thinks it was my best work. You cannot find a copy of it. Lois Chiles

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model. Lucian Freud

Picture Own Hung No Interest He Since Faithfully Up Model Accurate Going Whether Interest Next Copies Copy

When I hear people who love my music and are trying to copy it, it sounds strange to me because it sounds so simple, made by other people. It took me a lot of years to find the balance, to find a way to be on the edge of being accessible but at the same time having the echo of a deep, more complex world. Ludovico Einaudi

Love Music Time Me Balance Strange People World Simple Made Edge Other Took Way Complex Find Echo Having More Because Accessible Sounds Hear Years Hear People Lot Trying Same Same Time Being Who Deep Copy

Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes. Lynn Coady

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When you look at classical structures, they're often linked to literature, music, or a poem. They were constructed by master builders, which means it's not something standard that you can copy. Ma Yansong

Music You Master Classical Something Poem Structures Constructed Look Builders Were Linked Often Literature Which Means Standard Copy

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