Top Figures Quotes
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar
There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
Ralph Fiennes
That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.
Mary McDonnell
In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.
Terry Brooks
I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.
Harvey Pekar
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When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
Brian Moore 
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With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain.
Joshua Micah Marshall
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You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.
John Wilson
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You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them.
Walter Martin
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The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.
Alan Price
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor
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In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
Don Marquis
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
Walter Wriston
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The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.
Bob Woodward
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