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I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did. Carrie Fisher
Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it. Ian Hamilton Finlay
Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news. Harvey Fierstein
I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing. Tina Fey
With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes. Brian Ferneyhough
If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third person perspective of a different character, so you get to see the whole world a little more kaleidoscopically that way. That's traditional narrative manner, and I haven't done a book like that before, but I enjoyed it. Jeffrey Eugenides
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist. Arthur Erickson
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect. Arthur Erickson
Arthur Erickson quote: "Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was..."
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind. Arthur Erickson
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition. Brian Eno
Brian Eno quote: "I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!"
I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it! Brian Eno
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity. Havelock Ellis
I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with. Giada De Laurentiis
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition. Helen Dunmore
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions. Alan Dundes

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