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I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness. Frances Farmer

God Time Nothingness Seemed He Until Him Became Wondered After Little Less Useless Waste Waste Of Time Why Thing

Not long after I was married, World War II began. My husband John volunteered for the Navy and was sent to Pensacola for training as a Naval Combat Air Crew photographer. It seemed a strange assignment for a young newspaper editor and writer, already exempt, but off he went, saying goodbye to our 18-month-old Johnny and me. Frances Hesselbein

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I adored my grandparents and spent every weekend with Mama and Papa Wicks. They had seven children, so they needed a big house - and it seemed only logical to them to build into their house a pipe organ in a music room with a sixteen-foot ceiling. Frances Hesselbein

Music Logical Big Build Organ Every Seven Papa Spent Seemed Only Adored Weekend Had House Big House Ceiling Mama Pipe Children Room Them Grandparents Needed

I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses. Frances Mayes

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The biggest privilege I've had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can't be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Francesca Annis

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I'm embarrassed to admit that I thought the world was ending my junior year of high school after a dye job reacted badly with my perm and left me with a sparse and burnt up hairline. Even though I went natural a few years later, my edges never seemed to recover. Franchesca Ramsey

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It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. Francis Maude

Me Rain Bit Seemed Pointless Disapprove Like Always Homosexuality

Ukrainians use the term 'political technologist' as a favored synonym for electoral consultant. Trump turned to Manafort for what seemed at first a technical task: Manafort knows how to bullwhip and wheedle delegates at a contested convention. Franklin Foer

Political First Synonym Favored Delegates Seemed Consultant Term Knows Contested How Trump Task Convention Turned Electoral Use Technical

My sister has kids, including two in baby seats, and she drives a minivan. I had to climb over the car seats to get into the back seat, and it seemed ridiculous to have to do gymnastics to get in and out of the car. Franz von Holzhausen

Car Sister Baby Back Kids Out Seemed Gymnastics Drives Had Over She Climb Get Including Ridiculous Seat Seats Two

Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby. Fred Davis

I've never been a guy that's consistently hit home runs. It's always seemed to come, like, three or four in a week or two, and then I'll shut it down for a couple of weeks. Freddie Freeman

And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow. Frederick Henry Hedge

Old Power Would Seemed Impassioned More Allow Discern Which Meaning

Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better. Fuzzy Zoeller

Time Better Somebody Every Every Time Seemed Got Close Little Play

I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined. Gail Collins

Soft Spot Criminals Immigrants Pardon Seemed Give Had He Perhaps Him Sort Spot Genuinely Caused Were Than Which Little Used Less Illegal Who Illegal Immigrants Streak Defend Imagined Soft

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver. Garrison Keillor

Work Me Ignorance Own Other Unlikely Though Outcome Seemed My Own Writer Writers Driver Since Talent Well-Read Boy Am Real Discouragement Persevered Than Wanted Bus Bus Driver Average Less Found Eventually Keeps Row

The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike. Gary Larson

Daily Me You Black Strike Indefinitely Kind Plug Cartoon Black Hole Seemed Like Know Calendar Edition Scientist Rocket Sustained After Hole Preemptive Why Pulled

Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything. Gavyn Davies

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I remember when 'A League of Their Own' was coming out in '92, when I was doing interviews, it seemed like every interviewer at some point would say, 'So... would you consider this a feminist movie?' People are worried that it's a taboo thing, so I took great relish in saying, 'Yes, I would. Write that, yes.' Geena Davis

Saying Great You People Remember Own Every Took Consider Interviewer Worried Interviews Say Out Would Some Taboo Seemed Relish Point Write Remember When League Like Feminist Coming Doing Yes Movie Thing

I don't read 'genre' fiction if that means novels with lots of killing and shooting. Even Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country for Old Men' seemed pretty childish in that regard. Geoff Dyer

Old Men Country Childish No Country Pretty Seemed Genre Read Lots Shooting Fiction Regard McCarthy Old Men Means Even Novels

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses. George Oppen

People Old Situation Carefully Stayed Seemed Argue Pointless New Masses Wrote Left Realism Etc Theory Who Socialist Away

England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America. Gerald Scarfe

Incredibly Everything Seemed Exciting Dull America England

My brother, whom I adored, typed out a children's book illustrated by himself... at the age of 14. My sister, with whom I always shared a double bed, had that effortless superiority of someone six years older and anxious to show it. But we were each as shy as voles. It seemed safer to keep to each other's company. Geraldine McCaughrean

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Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force. Gerd von Rundstedt

Path Back Way Out Seemed Russians Area Factor Wiped Soon Adverse Fell Force Another Fresh Arrival Blocked Us Received

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