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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once. Tana French

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The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies. Terry Waite

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. Tom Stoppard

Life You Life Is A Odds Bet Take Terrible Gamble

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare. Vladimir Horowitz

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I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals. Wil Wheaton

The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs like Chaka and Mzilikazi committed terrible atrocities. That is the tradition from which modern African rulers spring. It won't change easily overnight. Wilbur Smith

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Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? Tom Stoppard

Thought Terrible End Going Mean Eternity

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Umberto Eco

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It's a terrible poison, writing. A. S. Byatt

Writing Poison Terrible

I got no business going to a club. I'm a terrible dancer. I got a bad back. Ad-Rock

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Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest. Adam Cohen

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We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything. Adam Driver

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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers. Adam Gopnik

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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is. Adam Pally

The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world. Adam Schiff

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Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It's disembowelment. It's just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It's not for everybody. Aisha Tyler

Marriage Everybody Visceral Sport Terrible Blood Just Injuries

Apparently, my father was funny. I didn't really know him, but people have theories that the gag-smith gene trickles down through the blood amongst other terrible traits like a big nose and a temper. Aisling Bea

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers. Alain de Botton

Happy Insist Writers Also Terrible Am Interesting Hegel Kant Thinkers

It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large. Alan Arkin

Think Morality Terrible Any Hollywood Large

I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war. Alan Furst

Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly the best films are arriving, from twenty films maybe you see two that are good, one that is so-so, and one that is extraordinary. And the other sixteen are terrible. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Great Own Out TV Directors Feel Look Make Terrible Because Years Five Same Six Break Then Episodes Series

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