I have only an appetite for masochistic truth, and only box-office collection figures interest me.
For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.
I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.
You might be a redneck if your beer can collection is considered a tourist attraction in your home town.
Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.
My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.
There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.
A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces.
I made my final collection in college in London using Irish handwoven wool. That is how I discovered Ireland first; I just fell in love with it, really.
This is an extraordinary illustrated collection of Chinese herbsaccompanied by concise and expert comments. Jing-Nuan Wu has succeeded incompiling this most unique and informative book.
I was 17 when I wrote a collection of short stories and wanted it published but it didn't happen. A lot of publishing houses don't allow young authors to enter into writing segments.
Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.
The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.
One of my favorite things about America is our breathtaking collection of national and state parks, many of which boast wonders the Psalmist would envy.
When designing a collection that is traditional, that has one specific sort of garment like a white dress, I think just being constantly attuned to trends really help.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.
One of the reasons I wanted to collaborate with Target is because I felt that together we could create a collection that would inspire - one that is cool and chic, but still very accessible.
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.
We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.
Yeah I got a collection of sneakers. I probably got over 200 pair of PUMAs.
I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says.
Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.
I'm just really happy. Really satisfied with my whole medal collection.
Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.
We will do everything within our power to protect Floridians from unlawful debt collection practices that often employ scare tactics to manipulate individuals.
My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth.
Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.
I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time because I was finishing my doctoral degree.
When I do read something about a designer it doesn't alter my thoughts about their collection when I see it in person.
A collection is like a dinner party. It is made up of the people you invite, but also the people you don't.
When someone walks into my room and goes 'wow' at my record collection, at that moment I could actually hate music and just want to go sit in the garden.
An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".
Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.
There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.
When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.
Garnishments tend to happen when people hide from their debts and stop making even minimum payments. Eventually, creditors sell the debt to a collection agency.
It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.
I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.
I've come up with a bridal collection, and for Diwali, I've done really nice kadhas, long danglers, and fun-affordable daily wear pieces.
Life is simply a collection of memories, but memories are like star light... They live on Forever.
I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because its part of my journey.
'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.
I've never had a huge collection of records; I've never been a beat digga.
All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.
I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in 'Publisher's Weekly,' and it looks like it will be dark, I'll track it down.
I am the face of my friend Yasmine Eslami's lingerie brand, so I have an entire collection of her lingerie.
You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive.
When we miss with all the metadata collection we've had, the San Bernardino couple and the Tsarnaev brothers, what that suggests to me is that we are using the wrong algorithms to search through all this data.
As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for their collection; but this does not lower their moral character in the least.
I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller.
The members of the National Clandestine Service of the CIA are called the collectors of last resort. They are tasked to seek the truth when all other avenues of intelligence collection have failed.
I don't think any one relationship in my life has wrecked me. I think I am a collection of wrecks.
I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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