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I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites. Tony Hillerman
Attitude Time Respect Sometimes Mind Thief Other Tribes Plot One Or Two More Toward Dead Make Readers Always Cultural Sites Burial Wanted Elements Aware Start Two
My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity. Tony Parsons
You Parents Gone Folks Between Nobody Dead Been Years Eternity Your Standing Many
I hate when rappers do interviews. They say stuff like, 'If I wasn't doing this, I'd be dead or in jail.' Like, damn, those are the only two options? What about managing Kinkos? Tony Rock
Hate Damn Interviews Say Those Rappers About Only Stuff Like Dead Doing Options Managing Jail They Say Two
Either the Obamacare is a dead letter, or the origination clause is; we can't have both. Trent Franks
Obamacare Clause Both Dead Either Letter
If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it. Trick Daddy
Together Other Locked Locked Up Would Stayed Dead Been Up Mama Them Daddy
If I start trying to make a record for what I think could possibly get played on radio, I'm dead. Trisha Yearwood
Think Possibly Record Could Dead Make Get Trying Radio Played Start
Music is changing. I'm just doing what I'm doing, and hopefully in the next 20, 30 years, some kids can take what I'm doing and change it again. If the music doesn't move, then it's dead. Trombone Shorty
Music Change Changing Kids Hopefully Some Take Dead Doing Years Move Just Again Then Next
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. Tryon Edwards
Power Living Books More More Power Dead Read Very Than Often Should Company Keep Careful
I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead. Varg Vikernes
Good Monuments About Dead Concerned Am Fame
Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living. W. G. Sebald
You Revenge Old Thought Living Back Valley All Religions Exact Religions Attending Remote Dead Still Up Where Grew Might Notion Village Universal Needed
One of the most humbling gigs I've ever had was I was paid by a neighbor to go get a dead bird out of her house. She was kind of a high up in the music business, and she knew that I needed cash, and I used to do some yard work for her. Walker Hayes
Work Music Business Bird Music Business Neighbor Out Kind High Gigs Some Cash Had Knew Most House Dead She Yard Go Up Get Paid Used Ever Her Humbling Needed
Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. Walker Percy
Life Me People World Signs Haters Hatred Few Strikes Alive About Seem Only Remaining Likable Dead Another Friendly Which Thing
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. Walter Benjamin
Memory Experience Theatre Lie Past Medium Cities Dead Instrument Which Exploring Ground
You must prune dead or dying wood. Warren Giles
You Must Dead Prune Wood Dying
If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing. Wavy Gravy
You Change Try Changing Dead Keep
My goal is to die in my 90s on the set, say, 'That's a wrap,' after the last shot, fall over dead, and have the grips go out and raise a beer to me. Wes Craven
Me Beer Fall Say Out Wrap Over Dead Go Goal Die After Grips Shot Last Raise Set
Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young. Wilfred Burchett
Women Old Men Young Hundreds Possible Tell Badly Dead Terrific Were Heat Burned Whether Even Bomb
Our job is to bring the dead facts to life. William Bernbach
Life Job Our Facts Dead Bring
Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead. William Collins
Life Charm More Self Dead Till Mourned Pity Beloved
Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old. William Gibson
Generation Old Generation X Come Dead Years Anyone Aged Mean
If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet. William Hague
Me People Drop Would Some About Week Write Feet Dead Came Mojo Who
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. William Hazlitt
Book Language Every Scholar Written Like Dead Read
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. William Hazlitt
Great Pride Living Back Lofty Names Look Dead Fame Antiquity Inheritance Who
I am one of the crucified dead. William Henry Moody
Crucified Dead Am
Both camels are dead and our provisions are done. William John Wills
Our Both Dead Camels Provisions Done
I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore. William Manchester
Peace Darkness Quilt Would Like Dead End Up Wondered Whether Evermore Tonight Pull Vaguely
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