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I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance. John Entwistle

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There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third category. John Grisham

Words Three Types Nobody Category Know Knows Should Use Third

The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games. John Hume

Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave. John Madden

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Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance. John McCarthy

Love Failure You Blame World First Absolve Advance Leaders Countries Course First World Sins Love You Them Ills World Leaders Third Third World

A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts. John Mellencamp

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close. John Podhoretz

You Game Strange Quality Writing Result Political Inning Final State Way Say Presume About Something Through Colossal Like Campaigns Close Little Baseball Baseball Game Play Third

I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference. John Sayles

You Yourself Writing First Think Pretty Spoiled Without Got Lot Get Getting Short Short Story Story Much Interference Whole Novel Published Second Draft Third

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics. John Shelton Reed

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The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one art form to mimic the other, so that our native identity remains the native identity, the contemporary identity remains the contemporary identity, and the mixing of these two musical identities creates a third musical identity. John Trudell

I show up in a playoff game, I have my sideline sheet. I can't even spit plays out, I get so excited. I mean, you get nervous. These are critical, do-or-die situations. Third down and 1, Red Zone, what do I call? Two minute drill? Are we going to go no huddle? These are decisions that you wrestle with. Jon Gruden

You Game Nervous Down Sideline Out Critical Minute Wrestle Drill Spit Excited Red Call Sheet Go Up Get Going Situations Decisions Mean Show Even Zone Two Playoff Third Plays

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade. Jonathan Kozol

Love School Back Spend Several Kindergarten Primary Primary School Go Years Grade Maybe Fifth Teach Used Teaching Fourth Third

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next. Jonathan Nolan

IBM has research and development; so do Microsoft and Nike and even Jose Andres. But there hasn't been enough R&D on feeding people in the Third World. This has to be part of the process; if not, we'll keep throwing money at the problem instead of investing in true solutions. Jose Andres

Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth home in six years - the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker's tenant. Jose Antonio Vargas

Home Facebook Building Virtually Indication Outside Headquarters Alto Years End Bunker Quiet Six Fifth Company Grown Fast Street Third

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year. Jose Saramago

Good Class Writing School Mistakes Single Year Spelling Pupil Classes Primary Primary School Were Done Second Fourth Third Second-Class

San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from. Juan Felipe Herrera

Me Big High Visual Drink Poetry Mentors Through Emotional Shaped Had Part Continue Lot Big Part Grade Diego San San Diego Landscapes Teachers Fountain Third

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else. Judy Johnson

Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can create a more complex structure with various story threads running parallel. Juliet Marillier

Think Other Relationships Complex Characters Parallel Running Threads See About Structure More Various Between Misunderstandings Hear Person Story Create Exploration Each Deeper Third

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third. K. Eric Drexler

A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel. Karen Traviss

Character Eyes Feeling Films Characters TV Inside See Seeing Something Point Point Of View Write Feel Glimpse Heads Reader Tight Very Person Behind View Novel Each Right Third

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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