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I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables. A. S. Byatt

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The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.' Adam Michnik

Work Socialism Face Party Spring Revolution Others Members About Main Between Velvet Mostly Prague Human Difference Wanted Former Human Face Communist Communist Party Who Bring

Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively. Adora Svitak

Time Worrying Spent More Could Since Mostly Doing Avoid

My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community. Adrian Grenier

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Being anonymous is a great luxury. It's a big loss to lose that. Mostly, the loss is the ability to observe others without being observed yourself. And as an actor, that is your key tool. Adrien Brody

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In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me. Al Pacino

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I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music. Al Walser

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It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway. Alan Thicke

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I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics. Alanis Morissette

Lyrics New Know Make Mostly Make Up Because Lot Up Actually

I love and respect women. I work mostly with women. Alber Elbaz

Work Love Respect Women Mostly

My workouts are mostly interval-based, so I'm never running at a constant speed. I'm always switching it up because I don't want my body getting used to one thing in particular. Alex Morgan

Speed One Thing Running Constant Never Particular Mostly Because Always Up Getting Want Body Used Workouts Switching Thing

At first, teaching was more or less a straightforward way of making a living and having access to institutional resources while writing - aka libraries. And that was not inconsiderable. But it didn't in any way touch the writing. Maybe it would push the writing aside sometimes, but mostly it was fine. Alexander Chee

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My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers - Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, June Jordan, Sarah Schulman, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Christa Wolf - and much of this writing was political as well as literary. Alexander Chee

I knew the name; I knew who Leatherface was. But I hadn't seen any of the films, mostly because I'm a scaredy-cat. Alexandra Daddario

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Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps. Alice Oswald

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I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew. Alice Sebold

Church Reading Mostly Comics Pew

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father. Alison Bechdel

Relationship Book Father About Mostly

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. Ambrose Bierce

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Even fake news tries to convince us of its reality, but it does so mostly by appealing to your preconceived notions, your shared biases, or your prejudice. How to do the opposite? To create a sense of the real and then challenge your biases. I think that is my favourite aspect of writing, and that is what I've tried to do in 'The Lovers.' Amitava Kumar

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I have almost never written about my experience as a soldier on the battlefield, because I tried, and I found that it is beyond my capacity to describe the battlefield. The battlefield consists mostly of smells, and it is very difficult to describe smells in words - very difficult indeed. Amos Oz

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. Anatole Broyard

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