#almost

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#almost #automatically #because #characters #come

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown. ↗

— Felix Adler

#almost #attention #capital #civilization #country

My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#crippled #dad #dramatic #harder #i

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. ↗

— Stella Adler

#always #best #even #experiences #great

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble. ↗

— Howard Baker

#always #causes #cover-up #event #rather

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#always #balance #between #coherence #create

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession. ↗

— Joan Allen

#almost #any #area #aware #cool

One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural. ↗

— Ted Allen

#because #becoming #benefits #chopped #dish

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#aspect #bush #bush presidency #catastrophe #every

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so. ↗

— Howard Baker

#any #challenge #considerable #cult thing #deal