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  • Sophia got up, taking one last look at the extraordinary daughter Councilor Nikita Duncan had borne. -- Nalini Singh
  • You can keep all your Bests, Peles and Maradonas, Duncan Edwards was the greatest of them all. -- Tommy Docherty
  • Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade. -- Warren Zevon
  • Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, please refer to rule #1. -Duncan Howe -- Ann Brashares
  • While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan. -- Celia Imrie
  • A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare. -- Jennifer Dunning
  • Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else. -- Barack Obama
  • I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic. -- Patti Smith
  • Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball. -- Bill Walton
  • During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn't show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly. -- Daley Thompson
  • Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur. -- Janet Flanner
  • Duncan Edwards is the one person who, even today, I really felt inferior to. I've never know anybody so gifted and strong and powerful with the presence that he had. -- Bobby Charlton
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  • It's a shame you know," he called over his shoulder. "What's a shame?" Duncan asked. "That I didn't capture her first." Duncan smiled. "Nay, Edmond, it was a blessing. God's truth, I would have taken her from you. -- Julie Garwood
  • I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater. -- Lea Michele
  • When it was time to talk about Warcraft we took our time, we knew what the story was going to be, we had a field general in Duncan Jones. Same thing with Godzilla, we kind of measured twice, cut once. -- Thomas Tull
  • She wished she could understand her reaction to him. Why, her heart was pacing a wild beat again. Madelyne dared a quick look up and found Duncan was watching her intently. He looked so handsome. She wanted him to be ugly. -- Julie Garwood
  • I didn't care if we ever quit practicing. I loved it. The only other guy I ever knew who loved it as much was Jerry Duncan. He would beg to practice even when he was hurt. I've actually seen him cry because the trainer told him he couldn't scrimmage. -- Bear Bryant
  • I've modeled my game after Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan. -- Chris Bosh
  • Duncan became a legend before he became a player at Everton. -- Joe Royle
  • If Tim Duncan had Knicks on his jersey, he'd be a god. -- Tony Parker
  • I love to have a beer with Duncan "Cause Duncan"s me mate -- Slim Dusty
  • President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal. -- Julianne Malveaux
  • You've given me value, Duncan. In my heart I know I matter to you. -- Julie Garwood
  • Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV? -- Bruce Coville
  • The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art. -- Robert Gottlieb
  • I've just vowed my love for you. Have you nothing to say in return?" Duncan asked. "Thank you, husband. -- Julie Garwood
  • You're bruised, as ugly as one of your Cyclops, and I can barely stand to look at you." - Duncan to Madelyne. -- Julie Garwood
  • I try to look at what KG does, what Tim Duncan does, what Amare Stoudamire does ... I compare and evaluate myself with them. -- Pau Gasol
  • She knew more about these situations than she realized, he thought. She'd spent years at Duncan's side. "When in doubt," he added, "be pompous. -- John Flanagan
  • For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him. -- Julie Garwood
  • Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul. -- Dorothy Parker
  • People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have a really good basketball team. -- Oscar Robertson
  • Madelyne, I would like to speak to you in private after dinner." "Speak to me about what?" Madelyne demanded with a disgruntled look. "Men and their horses," Duncan told her -- Julie Garwood
  • You better not tup our sister! Or you'll be having us to deal with, Braden MacAllister! (Duncan)Could I please just deal with one threat of death at a time? (Braden)" -- Kinley MacGregor
  • Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
  • Duncan Sheik and I are trucking along on 'American Psycho,' which is sort of the anti-Superman, you know? But it's a lot of fun, too, in a much, much darker way, obviously. -- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
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  • Johnny Duncan was one of the first opening acts I hired for my show, and he is the one who initiated me into astrology. I got hooked. It made a lot of sense to me. -- Charley Pride
  • Duncan,we're still in prison," Frederic said dryly"You're not going to see anything except this cell. Which has spiders, by the way. Have you noticed the spiders?" "Indeed I have: Carmen, Zippy, and Dr. T," Duncan said. -- Christopher Healy
  • I think I do regret leaving Kentucky because I took over a team with 15 wins banking everything on the Tim Duncan lottery, and once we didn't get Tim Duncan, I realized that leaving Kentucky was not a good move. -- Rick Pitino
  • President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations. -- Juan Williams
  • We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have not heard Arne Duncan, who is the U.S. Education Secretary, mention once the civic illiteracy in the country. -- Nat Hentoff
  • My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her. -- Jacob Rothschild
  • Marijuana brownies are amazing. Very simple to make, too. Just get some Duncan Hines brownie mix and cook the weed right in there. Drop it right in with the butter. I don't know who came up with this idea first, but it's sheer genius. -- George Lopez
  • My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that after some delay when it was possible for me to go to college I had definitely decided to specialize in chemistry. -- Wallace Carothers
  • After all, he did say you were the issue of an encounter between your father and a traeling hatcha-hatcha dancer." There was a gasp of horror from the crowd. Duncan, smiling thinly, said through gritted teeth: "Thank you so much for reminding us all, Anthony. -- John Flanagan
  • If Tim Duncan had 'Knicks' on his jersey, he'd be a god. He'd be more than Patrick Ewing. With four championships and two MVPs, I think people realize he's one of the best ever, but if he played in New York, he'd be way more famous. -- Tony Parker
  • When they had eventually calmed down a bit, and had gotten home, Mr. Duncan put the magic pebble in an iron safe. Some day they might want to use it, but really, for now, what more could they wish for? They all had all that they wanted. -- William Steig
  • I did a 20-minute selection of scenes from the play 'Spring Awakening' in college, well before the musical came around, so when the musical was becoming a hot thing, and I was reading interviews with Duncan Sheik about how he came to do the music, I think it's interesting. -- Allison Tolman
  • I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. I just do my own thing. That's good enough for me. -- Duncan D. Hunter
  • Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth? -- Graham Greene
  • I'm not going to lie: There are times I play mind tricks on myself, like that the French fries are poison. With desserts, I'll let myself have just one bite, but I'll look like a freak when I'm eating it, like when I did Duncan Hines commercials as a kid, just savoring every morsel. -- Fergie
  • We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago. -- Oscar Wilde
  • He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been reason enough. Until she'd warmed his feet. Everything had changed at that moment. Duncan had known with a certainty he couldn't deny that they were henceforth bound together. He could never let her go. -- Julie Garwood
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