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I was a promiscuous reader. I loved Nancy Drew books and Tom Swift - never the Hardy Boys - but I also read Dumas, Dickens, Poe, Conan Doyle, and Cornelius Ryan's war books. As to favorite character: I'm torn between Nancy, on whom I had an unseemly crush, and Edmond Dantes, the Count of Monte Cristo. Erik Larson

War Character Monte Books Favorite Promiscuous Torn Drew Poe Count Never Had Conan Between Crush Nancy Also Read Reader Boy Dickens Loved Swift Tom Whom Hardy

My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing. Gale Sayers

Me Doctors Year Every Back Torn Bad Rushing Had Knee League Came Led Up Very Did Next Next Year Injury

The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church. George Smathers

Home Church Will Parents Our Destroyed Torn Outcome Determine Mothers Truly Trained Children Whether Against Turned Homes

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. Harriet Ann Jacobs

Day Morning Mother Wish Year Before Cold Torn Cabin New She Sorrows Does Die May Often Children Might Next Next Morning Who Floor Her Watching Slave Peculiar

My mom works at the VA; she's been working at the VA for 15 plus years, and yet she's helping so many veterans coming back from brown Muslim countries, and my mom treats them. It's this weird - sometimes I feel torn. It's this dual identity. I'm so proud to be American, and at the same time, I disagree with our foreign policy. Hasan Minhaj

Time Mom Sometimes Disagree Veterans Back Our Muslim Torn Plus Brown Weird Feel Countries She Identity Policy Dual Proud Foreign Coming Foreign Policy Been Years American Same Same Time Them Working Helping Many Works VA Treats

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos. Heston Blumenthal

Home Gone Chaos Books Torn Got Pages Cook

Orca family members belong together at home in the ocean, not isolated in tiny tanks at SeaWorld. If you believe that a mother should never have to know the pain of having her child torn away from her, boycott SeaWorld. Holly Marie Combs

I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences. Ian Goldin

Pure Torn Between Sciences Always Been Social Social Sciences

The way the vocal folds work is that they can get inflamed and in pain, but actual tears in the folds are somewhat rare. I've never torn anything. Been too strained plenty of times. John Darnielle

Work Tears Rare Pain Too Way Plenty Torn Vocal Somewhat Never Been Times Get Inflamed Anything Strained Actual

Pauline Kael said that Rip Torn could get angrier faster than any other American actor: that he could go from zero to 10 in 1.8 seconds or something like that. John Heard

Faster Other Seconds Torn Rip Something Could He Like Said Go Than Get American Any Actor Zero

I would say the country is a different country. It is a better country. The signs I saw when I was growing up are gone and they will not return. In many ways the walls of segregation have been torn down. John Lewis

I don't like to see Christmas trees torn down. John Prine

Christmas Down Trees Torn See Like

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. Katherine Dunn

Environmental War Culture Crime Long Our Torn Havoc Devastation Between Wrought Terror American American Culture Romance Violence

I had originally planned to do musical theatre and be on Broadway, but then my love for poetry also set in. Once that happened, I became torn between a career as an English teacher or a music teacher. Khalid

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place. Kobe Bryant

Broken First Before Softball Everybody Tooth Severed Torn Knee Ankle Miss First Place Knows Because Hand Lip Size After Place Toe Shoulder Games Serious Injury Played Fractured

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. Levi Strauss

Experience Ladder Musical Torn Composer More Delicious Point Void Thrust Feel Falling Been Anticipate Than Stable Sensation

I think, the first time I played Iago at the Public Theater, I realized I had a - much to my chagrin - I realized I had an instinct for these conflicted characters, for these torn characters, for these characters who could be described as evil. I wouldn't describe them that way. Liev Schreiber

Our friends, neighbors, and their families have been forced to live in the shadows out of fear of being torn from their families and deported from what is, for many of them, the only country they have ever known. Marc Veasey

Fear Country Live Our Neighbors Out Torn Shadows Only Only Country Forced Known Been Friends Families Being Them Many Ever

I think doctors are really suffering now. They're suffering in the sense that they feel torn between serving their patients in the best way they can and dealing with all of requirements of the insurance companies and the HMOs and the hassles and the paper work and the increasing pressures to do less and less for their patients. Marcia Angell

Work Best Suffering Doctors Sense Think Increasing Way Paper Pressures Hassle Torn Best Way Feel Between Insurance Dealing Insurance Companies Patients Really Requirements Less Companies Now Serving

My art teacher was really encouraging me, because he really liked that I could draw. I felt very torn. At that time, I had to pick one, and I felt much more confident in the arts than I did in chemistry. My big thing was that I actually wanted to be like Jacques Cousteau. Maria Cornejo

Teacher Art Time Me Big Chemistry Draw Torn More Could Had Pick He Like Liked Because Felt Encouraging Very Than Did Jacques Confident Arts Big Thing Wanted Much Really Actually Thing

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