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I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps.

'The Madison' we three weeks rehearsed in a nightclub. Brasseur and Frey didn't know how to dance. A choreographer had to teach us how to do the steps.

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn't changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I'm still too close to 'Small Steps' to compare it to 'Holes.'

We really don't have much of a choice between Obama and Romney. Neither one of them are for Medicare or taking the steps that's needed for jobs in America.

When it comes time to dance, they're like a regiment; they do the same steps - except for the Mike Teavee dance, where the Oompas play in a rock band. I learned to play the guitar for that one.

There should be a response, clearly, if there was meddling. And it does appear that there was some, and therefore, we perhaps should wait for our own investigation by Mr. Mueller to continue and to come to a conclusion before we begin to take steps regarding the Russians.

I hate that femininity in a gay men is a 'stereotype.'

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

I am far more pragmatic than the stereotype of the sex permits.

If you see my record I'm not a stereotype killer striker.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

If there is one thing a reader should take away from this book, it is that there is little certain about our nation except that it remains an experiment that requires our serious and sustained attention to thrive.

Adams was paying attention to such thinking. He would later note that this was the sermon that made Mayhew's reputation.

The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.

The biggest anachronism, usually, in a historical movie is, again, the author doesn't want to be thought to in any way share the social conventions or whatever of the time, so there's always this auctorial alter ego. So you have a movie set in the 1830s where you'll have a female character who has the attitudes of a twenty-first-century screenwriter. And that to me is a true anachronism.

fundamental to the Java platform from its inception and predates the emergence of Web-based services standards.

Televangelist Pat Robertson also declared, on a platform that on defence and many other topics was well to the right of Attilla the Hun.

the word yuppie, remember, was coined in 1984 to describe followers of the presidential candidate Gary Hart.

And so I trust that it is not too petty to point out that it was George H. W. Bush, not Ronald Reagan, who was president when Boris Yeltsin ended the Cold War.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.