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The only kind of notebook I actively dislike is the steno pad, entirely because of that vertical line down the middle of the page. I presume it has some arcane secretarial use, but to me, it's both ugly and confusing.
Michael Dirda
Me
Ugly
Down
Secretarial
Presume
Kind
Arcane
Some
Entirely
Only
Both
Because
Line
Vertical
Middle
Notebook
Dislike
Pad
Confusing
Page
Use
Actively
People presume just because you're a bigger bloke that you wouldn't be physically fit or up for the fight, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
Nick Frost
Truth
You
Fight
People
Further
Presume
Physically
Because
Bloke
Fit
Up
Just
Just Because
Bigger
Surveys often show people would prefer a detached house with a lawn and driveway to an apartment. I understand this. It's not my place to presume to tell people where they can live. But perhaps that dream will simply not be possible in the future.
Norman Foster
Future
People
Will
Live
Possible
Tell
Presume
Detached
Dream
Would
Lawn
Driveway
Simply
Perhaps
House
Understand
Surveys
Often
Where
Place
Apartment
Prefer
Show
Show People
It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.
Orson Pratt
God
Man
Unless
Sight
Presume
Sin
New
Name
Him
Revelation
His
Authorized
Any
Grievous
There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
Philip Kerr
Presume
Temptation
More
Take
Lazy
Reader
Knows
Always
Than
Get
Granted
Things
I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.
Ray Stevenson
Book
Say
Presume
Comic
Comic Book
Am
Fan
Ever
I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.
Robert Kirkman
Great
Think
Presume
Anything
The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time, but it would be a mistake to presume that I'm not using fiction to extend the narrative.
Rodney Crowell
Time
You
Mistake
Writing
Old
Presume
Would
Would-Be
Write
Almost
Almost All
Come
Know
Narrative
Handbook
Autobiographical
Fiction
Place
Using
Extend
Starting
There is a tendency to presume autobiography in fiction by women or minorities. Guys named Jonathan write universal stories, while there's this sense that everyone else is just fictionalizing their own small experiences.
Rumaan Alam
Women
Own
Sense
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Presume
Minorities
Guys
Small
Tendency
Write
Jonathan
Named
Just
Autobiography
Experiences
Fiction
Stories
While
Universal
I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.
Rupert Friend
War
Experience
Presume
Kind
Would
Impart
Horrors
Never
Understand
Been
Fully
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
Samuel Richardson
Man
Sense
Every
Presume
Scholar
Necessarily
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You
Ignorance
Yourself
Understanding
Presume
Writer
Until
Understand
His
Ignorant
I certainly would never presume to play another race of a person. Diversity is important in Hollywood, and I would never want to feel like I was playing a character that was offensive.
Scarlett Johansson
Character
Diversity
Important
Presume
Would
Never
Feel
Like
Another
Offensive
Person
Want
Race
Hollywood
Certainly
Play
Playing
Industry people do know when a PR movement plays out. The issue is that it is an insult to our intelligence when those who are doing the PR thing presume that we are not wiser.
Smriti Irani
People
Intelligence
Our
Those
Out
Presume
Wiser
Know
Industry
Insult
Doing
Issue
Movement
Who
Thing
Plays
As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills.
William Drummond
Life
Will
Our
Presume
Wills
Entrance
Had
He
Part
Learn
Leaving
Any
Which
Should
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