Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: season

Quoted In The Grove:
Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
~E W Howe

Hope and fear cannot alter the season.
~Chogyam Trungpa

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
~Jim Rohn

EndQuote:
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
~Bernard DeVoto

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Exercise Prompt for 06/07: fool

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What you’re going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that’s what’s on your plate. And I think that’s a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food.
~Anthony Bourdain

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To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts.
~Scott Brooks

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.
~Mario Batali

I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.
~Anne Burrell

You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook’s year. I get more excited by that than anything else.
~Mario Batali

Strawberries are like tomatoes for me; I just won’t eat them year round. I’ll happily wait for them to come into season, then I gorge like a brown bear eating salmon before hibernation.
~Brad Leone

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In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you’re preparing it for dinner. Don’t wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.
~Paula Deen

I add a lot of citrus to my food and I think that flavors it. And, to me, that what makes it healthier, lower in fat, lower in calories. It adds lots of flavor. Spices, of course. But citrus is definitely kind of my go-to to season and really to really make those flavors, make that food come alive.
~Cat Cora

I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of ‘Everyday Italian,’ and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It’s very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta.
~Giada De Laurentiis

My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it’s pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There’s a lot going on there.
~Emeril Lagasse

Every morning, I eat one fat-free yogurt with a sliced peach when peaches are in season, and one thin slice of whole-wheat bread. The same thing. I don’t want to get fat. And I want to keep my fitness. ~Leonard Lauder Cardigans.

I don’t have a favorite fruit. There are things that thrill me each turn of the season.
~Bill Pullman

A person with a positive attitude is like a fruit of all seasons.
~Shiv Khera

When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it ‒ endlessly, day after day, season after season.
~Bobbie Ann Mason

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For every gardener there is a minimum level of engagement that is needed to sustain and develop the relationship. There is no magic figure to this and it will vary from person to person and season to season, but it is there.
~Monty Don

With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.
~Islom Karimov

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.
~Robert Grosseteste

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Let’s be honest: you can’t celebrate fall without it’s leading role ‒ pumpkin! You can incorporate this flavor of the season in so many ways, from candles to lattes, pies to decorations.
~Rachel Hollis

Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I’ve married someone from Vermont, so it’s an expression I kept hearing, and I’m like, ‘What is that? That’s just so beautiful.’ I like the idea it’s the very, very first murmurings of spring.
~Beth Orton

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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
~Daniel Boone

Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
~John Burroughs

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
~Janos Bolyai

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To me it seems that youth is like spring, an overpraised season ‒ delightful if it happen to be a favoured one, but in practice very rarely favoured and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
~Samuel Butler

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
~Thomas Carlyle

I like these out-of-season crossings. When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again. Or perhaps it’s just a way of admitting a preference for empty ferries.
~Julian Barnes

Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
~Sinclair Lewis

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
~Paul Theroux

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summer leads into autumn
autumn leafs into winter
winter leans into spring
spring leaps into summer
~Terri Guillemets

Spring is a lover
Summer, a partier
Autumn, an artist
Winter, a philosopher
~Terri Guillemets

Seasons depart peripherally.
~Terri Guillemets

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Posted From The Grove

I try not to tune in to politics until it’s two or three months before the election. Till then, it’s like watching preseason football.
~Trey Parker

Britain in 2018 has the feel of a Netflix drama approaching its season finale. It’s the classic ‘how on earth does anyone get out of this one?’ kind of cliffhanger, with all of the key protagonists confronted by their nemesis.
~Owen Jones

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon’s numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
~Bob Woodward

I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it.
~David Thewlis

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Global warming would increase the rate of evaporation from the oceans. This would increase rainfall worldwide. In addition, global warming would lengthen the growing season, thereby increasing still further the bounty of both agriculture and nature.
~Robert Zubrin

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.
~Kazuo Ishiguro

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
~Diane Ackerman

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Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight.
~Robert Kiyosaki

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
~Thomas Malthus

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The holiday season can be an especially trying time for our service men, women, and families. Military service and deployment create empty seats at holiday tables, religious services, and celebrations.
~Geoff Stults

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.
~Martin Van Buren

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Mitt Romney’s primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.
~Eliot Spitzer

There’s more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler’s fascism but won’t examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season.
~Suzanne Fields

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I’m the antidote to Lindsay Lohan. I know she misbehaves terribly, but sometimes it just seems like it’s open season on her.
~Raquel Welch

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.
~Joe Biden

It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.
~Max Lucado

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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
~Plato

It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.
~Norm Coleman

I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
~Adlai E Stevenson

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.
~Guru Nanak

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Obviously, we have a political season in the United States, and there’s always different winds that blow on that.
~Bill Haslam

In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.
~William Bligh

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~Morgan Maasseen: Water III (6:12) textures of water, a different perspective

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~Tierce Green: Seasons (2:25) a spoken word injunction

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~Reisinger Studio: Pollen (5:21) pollens in pastel to the soothing drip of music

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There’s an old adage of, ‘This is what I do, it’s not who I am.’ There is a line that gets blurry at times because you sometimes become your work, or you sometimes put so much into your work that you can’t separate from it. It swallows you up. It really happens during the season and it’s a difficult line to manage.
~Brad Stevens

A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry ’til a more convenient season.
~Mary Todd Lincoln

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today’s actions to tomorrow’s results. There’s a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.
~Gary Ryan Blair

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
~P T Barnum

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
~Paramahansa Yogananda

Every day, every year, every new season is a reset from the last, and you are still hungry for success, to do things better and better.
~Fernando Alonso

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
~Norman Ralph Augustine

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.
~Andy Van Slyke

Everybody has their due season. And it’s all about what you do in your season.
~Deontay Wilder

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
~Edmund Burke

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§ SPORT: (standing in for VIDEO this edition)

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you’re in a slump. If you lose at the end, you’re choking.
~Gene Mauch

Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season’s campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.
~Billy Evans

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.
~Damon Hill

You look at 2001, we were third in points and no one gave us much of a chance when the season started. We came back last year and had the same team, the same everybody and led points.
~Sterling Marlin

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
~Alain Prost

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People don’t realize the amount of stress you put on your body both physically and mentally from just the wear and tear of a season.
~Grant Hill

During the season, the teams play every third day. That’s a huge workload with some long journeys. I think, in football, we need more time to rest and recover.
~Toni Kroos

You love the game, but it’s hard to do the things you do when you’re feeling like you’re a leg down all the time, literally. Or you’re always beat up, even coming into the season. So it’s just not as fun when you’re down, and you got to work your way up. And you can’t really get there because you’re so beat up.
~Calvin Johnson

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
~Sally Quinn

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Any player over 40-50 games per season will have moments of fatigue, let alone a 22-year-old who has a lot to learn on how to control games and pace himself throughout 90 minutes.
~Massimiliano Allegri

Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.
~Bill Parcells

During the offseason, I didn’t take any time off. And I played this game for over 20 years. So right after the season, I would go right back into my regimen.
~Jerry Rice

The more minutes you play and the more grind and physical play you endure through the course of a season, you have to re-charge and get your body right for the next season. Be in that weight room and conditioning and that kind of deal.
~Stephen Curry

We gotta show up and pay attention to details, embracing the process of hard work, and developing our bodies and minds to get ready for the season.
~Antonio Brown

If someone thinks, ‘I’ll spend the off season working on my fitness and I’ll come back a better cricketer,’ I don’t think that’s enough. You need to spend a lot of time working on your skills and honing your skills.
~Rahul Dravid

Once you know what to expect, it gets easier and easier. And now I know what I have to do to prepare for each season and what to expect through each season.
~Sue Wicks

From a logistical standpoint, I learned about when to peak, when to push, when to recover throughout the season.
~Nathan Chen

I’m very stubborn. I feel like I’m going to play this season.
~Candace Parker

A month before the season, I don’t order fries with my club sandwich.
~Mario Lemieux

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I don’t just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That’s how I think.
~Mariano Rivera

I don’t think any guy goes into a season worrying about the next season.
~Blake Griffin

I think about the next season right away.
~George Steinbrenner

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And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team, the only undefeated season.
~Don Shula

I’ve won everywhere that I’ve been. I’ve never had a losing season in sports from the moment I was five-years-old. I’m not a loser.
~Joe Burrow

In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
~Bill Vaughan

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I didn’t cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.
~Keith Hernandez

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I’d make one a week and finally I’d pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I’m trying to keep it down to one a season.
~Lou Gehrig

In some ways, that’s the story of my season ‒ when I wasn’t making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.
~Bode Miller

Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn’t have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.
~Brett Favre

I’m going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.
~Don Baylor

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I needed some stability, which is why I chose not to change from HRC for this season, which was an option that we had. Apart from being the best team in the world, I also needed some consistency.
~Sete Gibernau

Every team deals with obstacles throughout the course of the season, and it’s as a unit that they need to be worked through. Injuries are part of the game, just like facing tough teams on the road or having one of your best players get into foul trouble.
~Scottie Pippen

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At the end of the day, it is a very long year. The tennis season is pretty much ten months of the year.
~Alex de Minaur

We are on the road for 300 days in a year, no off season.
~Mandy Rose (pro wrestler)

It’s always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It’s always tough because you know, the season is very long. I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it’s really hard to stay focused all the time because you’re really tired after the whole season.
~Agnieszka Radwanska

Playing 82 games is a haul, and with eight or nine exhibition games, it’s a long process. You’ve got to take care of your body and make sure you’re getting your work in and staying healthy throughout the whole season.
~Blake Griffin

During a packed season, maintaining fitness becomes tough because you can’t put too much effort into it. You’re constantly monitoring workloads.
~MS Dhoni

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At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is – well, anything. I just want to sleep. I crash out hard every day at Common Law. I definitely lost a couple years of my life just on the fatigue factor on the first season.
~Michael Ealy

Sleep is huge. That’s your biggest way of recovering. In baseball, it’s such a hard sleep schedule during the season, but you try to do the best you can. Because you can take all the protein drinks, you can do all these things, but your recovery is your sleep.
~Bryce Harper

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There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.
~Tom Brady

You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.
~Joe Sakic

You see how can you help your team, help yourself improve, and that’s what I try to figure out throughout the season.
~Russell Westbrook

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Every opportunity to win is sacred. It’s sacred to us inside the organization, and it should be sacred to the fans as well. They deserve our best efforts to do what we can to improve the club and put the club in position to succeed in any given season.
~Theo Epstein

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.
~Frank Robinson

Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business.
~Luis Figo

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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I’m working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
~Damon Hill

We cannot change absolutely everything in one season.
~Pep Guardiola

Once the season starts for me, there isn’t a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.
~Bode Miller

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If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
~Valentino Rossi

One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.
~Alain Prost

Motorsport is very expensive. No one cares if you had a good season two years ago and then you have an injury. It is a very dodgy investment.
~Sebastian Vettel

There is no other way to start the season than to win the Daytona 500.
~Jimmie Johnson

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We have had more sales for this year’s grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.
~Jackie Stewart

We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season.
~Lamar Hunt

When the Sacramento Kings, when I was there, we win 29-30 games ‒ that was a successful season. And it would be packed from start to finish. You couldn’t get a seat.
~Kenny Smith

It’s the fans that need spring training. You gotta get ’em interested. Wake ’em up and let ’em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
~Harry Caray

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A season is a season, regardless of the number of games.
~Joe Cronin

Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.
~Fay Vincent

We can’t keep playing catch up as we have done for every season I’ve been here.
~Paul Ince

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Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
~Barry Sanders

You’re never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they’re in front of you… With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I’m running out of chances.
~Brett Favre

I have been around football all my life, and it doesn’t happen. It never enters my mind. I don’t think, ‘Oh, what’s going to happen to me at the end of the season?’ Whatever happens to me, happens.
~Harry Redknapp

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~Omeleto: The Hook (10:20) when the teacher gets taught

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~TheCGBros/Aude Danset & Carlos De Carvalho: Premier Automne (10:33) when seasons reach to touch, animated

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~Omeleto: Training Wheels (15:10) awkward entrance ramp to dating

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Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
~Ernie Harwell

There’s nothing like Opening Day. There’s nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it’s kind of in my blood.
~George Brett

That’s one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn’t begun to batter optimism.
~Mike Barnicle

Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
~Casey Stengel

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The math works. Over the course of a season, there’s some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There’s so much data that you can predict: individual players’ performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
~Billy Beane

I don’t think I’m a home run hitter. Most of my home runs are line drives. If I hit it, thanks God. But it’s not the kind of thing that I think about. I just go out there and try to have a better season than I had before. Home runs are not in my mind.
~Robinson Cano

People talk about that catch and, I’ve said this many times, that I’ve made better catches than that many times in regular season. But of course in my time, you didn’t have a lot of television during the regular season. A lot of people didn’t see me do a lot of things.
~Willie Mays

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Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That’s baseball as it should be played ‒ in God’s own sunshine. And that’s really living.
~Alvin Dark

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To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. It has to be, or it could not last a season out. Crookedness and baseball do not mix. It has become immeasurably more popular as the years have gone by. It will be greater yet. This year, 1919, is the greatest season of them all.
~Charles Comiskey (year White Sox threw the Series)

I thought that the league-imposed restriction on drinking had expired at the end of the regular season.
~Josh Gordon

I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.
~Rio Ferdinand

What we’ve seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge… unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent.
~Michael Wilbon

We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life.
~Jim Bunning

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No one respects the umpire’s job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team.
~Jim Evans

I’m mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I’d be remembered forever. Now, I’ll have to throw him another.
~Bill Lee

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Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.
~John Thorn

When I step onto the mound for the first time in a game, I remove my cap and look under the brim to read a message I write to myself with a Sharpie each season. It’s a private reminder to stop and reflect on how lucky I am to play professional baseball.
~Sean Doolittle

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You have so much fun playing games. We all love basketball, so we never want the season to end, ’cause then it’s five months of sitting around and watching the playoffs.
~Stephen Curry

I have this set-up at my house where I have one big movie theater screen that’s 9 ft. by 16 ft. Then, I have nine 63-inch monitors around it; four on either side and one underneath. So I get all nine one o’clock games, and I can switch them onto the big screen. That’s what I do on the Sundays during the season.
~John Madden

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There’s two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.
~Darius Rucker

The calendar and the clock are all set by football season and the offseason.
~Tom Coughlin Prev

When it’s football season, I’m all football.
~Hayden Fry

Thank you… preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.
~Jimmy Fallon

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I think there is no defending a title. You don’t go into a season with a points advantage over anyone. So I don’t think it’s ever a title defence. I think you’ve got a different number on your bike, if you choose so, but everyone starts at zero again.
~Casey Stoner

I think the NFL season starts with the first three or four games and all the predictions come out. You’re either great on offense, bad on defense, great on defense, bad on offense. You’re either going to have a Super Bowl chance or you won’t. And I think after that, people kind of think everything’s set in stone.
~Devin McCourty

There is no future. This is the season. Get to the Super Bowl.
~Troy Vincent

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A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion ‒ several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
~Bennet Omalu

It makes common sense that children, whose brains are rapidly developing, should not be hitting their heads hundreds of times per season.
~Ann McKee

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I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can’t handle one of them, you probably don’t deserve to win anyway.
~Bill Simmons

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Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren’t allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
~Yogi Berra

Honestly, I was a troublemaker. The environment I grew up in, my mom and my sister, they decided they were going to sign me up in every single thing to keep me busy. I played football, basketball, baseball. Anything, whatever was in season, I was signed up for it. Basketball was one of the things that just stuck.
~Lou Williams

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That’s when I knew I had some athletic ability.
~LeBron James

Some people don’t understand that after football season, I’ve got to go to baseball.
~Jameis Winston

I thought I was better at basketball, but obviously people didn’t think so. But I loved them equally, whether it be baseball season, basketball, football, golf, I liked them equally.
~Adam Thielen

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In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we’d have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.
~Haile Gebrselassie (Olympic marathon winner)

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§ TELEVISION (in lieu of MUSIC)

One of the most beautiful things about Shakespeare’s Hamlet is when he stops in the middle of the play to ask, ‘To be or not to be?’ Then, right at the end, he decides to ‘let be.’ The first season of ‘Stranger Things’ was Hopper asking whether ‘to be or not to be’ and the second is to ‘let be.’
~David Harbour

At the end of Season 1 of Cheers, it was the lowest rated show in all of network television… So we turn to Bill Cosby; when he came to Thursday night, he just exploded. And once the audience was there, we said, ‘Hey, by the way, we also have this other great show. It’s called Cheers.’
~Warren Littlefield

You just pour your heart and soul into a project, and everyone pays their dues, and everyone on the crew, everyone works so hard. Then you just don’t know how the show ends up. You just hope that it turns out great, and you hope that people respond to it, and you hope that the network accepts a Season Two.
~Jamie Chung

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I loved True Detective so much in Season 1, and then when the Season 2 monstrosity came around, I was like, ‘What is this show? What have you done to this show?’
~David Harbour

I think that episode in the third season was great. I’m really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he’s a rock star.
~Bradley Cooper

I watched season four of The Wire. They have subtle performances that they do through their eyes. You could watch season four with the audio off and still understand what’s happening through their eyes.
~John Boyega

Frank Sobotka in The Wire on HBO was one of the greatest characters I’ve ever played. They cut his throat at the end of that season. There’s something about creative coupling that seems to go with great characters, and the fact that you can never play them again once you’re done.
~Chris Bauer

I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.
~Anna Paquin

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The reason I’ve never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn’t entertain that sort of thing now, is the idea of signing a piece of paper that binds me for six or seven years.
~Martin Freeman

As for Twin Peaks, I’m happy to have been a part of something that was a success. The only time I was concerned was during the second season when it started to lose its focus, and I was thinking, ‘What if I get stuck here for five years? I would go crazy.’
~Sherilyn Fenn

Season number seven! It’s been so exciting for us. When we first began, we were like the little train that could… and we did! We’re terribly excited! It will be an interesting season for us, I think.
~Roma Downey

I wanted to only do one season when I came onto Vampire Diaries ‒ because I thought there was only so much to explore.
~Joseph Morgan

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Pilot season in L.A. is just this blood bath. They make so many pilots, and such a small percentage are picked up. And then if you are picked up, there are so many variables. You have to get a good time slot, and you have to get promoted. And then you have to thrive in that time slot.
~Michaela Conlin

Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once ‒ last-minute, always ‒ and you’re going on three a day, especially back in the day.
~Kim Dickens

It might take me an hour to get to feel at ease with somebody. I don’t find it easy to go into a room full of 10 people and give it all away. In the pilot season in Los Angeles I’ve done that a couple of times.
~Aidan Gillen

Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I’m not Latino. I not only am, but there’s another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.
~Carlos Ponce

Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.
~Anna Torv

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I left Saturday Night Live without a film to go to, and I’d filmed Old School while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn’t come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.
~Will Ferrell

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don’t want that.
~Carl Lewis

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren’t really allowed to go out shopping for work.
~Claudia Black

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The entire season, the show had never been aired for more than three weeks. You can’t get an audience that way. They would never promo the show for the next week.
~Jeri Ryan

You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.
~Brett Somers

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
~Jason Alexander (Cheers)

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We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.
~Ryan Seacrest (American Idol)

Some people think that my shows are just for shock value, but the provocation makes those classic pieces look different every six months. You don’t need to see the same gray suit every season. But surrounding it with 40 really interesting ideas makes it feel new.
~Thom Browne

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I had kissed a girl in the second season of Community, but that was my first time kissing a girl ever, and I was so nervous, I almost knocked Brit Marling’s teeth out.
~Gillian Jacobs

John Cleese was my personal favorite because he played my husband for a whole season ‒ and Minnie Driver. We almost had our own, like, show all living in a house together. And Gene Wilder was just so dear.
~Megan Mullally

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There is something to be said for one vision and following one vision through. I do think it’s something TV will catch up to at some point and realize, ‘Wow, we’re in the Golden Age of Television right now; we’ve taken television to another level, but now let’s take it to an even higher level where it is one vision throughout a whole season.’
~Reed Morano

Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of House of Cards at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. They want the freedom. If they want to binge as they’ve been doing on ‘House of Cards’ and lots of other shows, we should let them binge.
~Kevin Spacey

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I think most people who were involved with television will tell you, if given a season or given a 13-episode order and getting those episodes on the air, and if viewers don’t come, I think most people will tell you they’d walk away. They feel they were given a fair shake, and if viewers didn’t come, they didn’t come.
~Tom Cavanagh

The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.
~Arthur Miller

When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don’t have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.
~Kiefer Sutherland

They’ve got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they’re not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn’t, like, pan out the way they had hoped.
~Rene Auberjonois

We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season… It’s impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.
~Aaron Spelling

And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of The Book of Mormon, the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central’s South Park, are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.
~James Wolcott

You know, it’s kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.
~Jeff Bridges

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There’ve been many a season where I couldn’t get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can’t really do it.
~Anthony Michael Hall

Pretty much from 1979 through 1988, the backbone of my career was the theater. Working on Broadway a couple of times, working off-Broadway, and also doing a lot of regional theater. Make no mistake, I lived very frugally. I had an apartment that was real cheap. I would get two or three jobs per season, and in between I’d be on unemployment.
~Delroy Lindo

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I could program a ‘fabulous, I love it’ kind of hit season right now. I’m more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.
~George C Wolfe

We have a conversation before every season now and we just take inventory. Are we having fun? Can we do things? Can we push the envelope still? Can we evolve the show still? Are people still watching?
~Sal Vulcano

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~Carol King w/ James Taylor: Sweet Seasons (4:05) for Boston Strong

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~Donovan: Season of The Witch, feat. Hole (3:29) cast for TV

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~STROMAE: Fils De Jour (4:04) pure spectacle in honor of a cocotte (in French, without irony)

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~Love & Roar: Seasoning (2:56) rueful, tuneful, w/ dance

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~Olly Murs: Seasons (3:35) price of love, cost of misbehaving

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~Matchbox Twenty: Mad Season (4:38) celebrity crush, or the crush of celebrity

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~K D Lang: Season of The Hollow Soul (7:13)) reflective, bluesy

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~SHAGGY: Seasons, feat. OMI (3:39) tropical celebration

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~Paul Weller: 5th Season (6:21) seasoned rockers gettin’ it on

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~Hall and Oates: Change of Season (6:30) plaintive plea for change

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~violent femmes: 4 Seasons (2:53) clever clay cast accompanying

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~Johnny English: A Man For All Seasons (3:49) w/ Rowan Atkinson providing suave drama

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Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.
~Aristotle

There is much more to seasonality, though, than breeding or migration. Virtually every internal process alters… We humans were clearly highly seasonal beasts until the coming of electric light but traces remain.
~Brian Follett

We are reflexive creatures, and the seasons play a large part in human culture and in making our psychology and social behaviour what it is…. The adaptations of our ancestors that enabled them to survive and reproduce by anticipating the seasonal vagaries of the climate still reside deep within our metabolism and life histories.
~Russell G Foster and Leon Kreitzman

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.
~Hedy Lamarr

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but ‘Crescent Moon’ reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.
~Frank Black

Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing,
O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!
~Ruben Dario

The course of the seasons is a piece of clock-work, with a cuckoo to call when it is springtime.
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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If people were seasons, she’d be monsoon. After every downpour, the garden laughed like her, wild and free.
~Meeta Ahluwahlia

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
~Mother Teresa

I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year…
~Edna St Vincent Millay

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring;
but beauty faded has no second spring.
~Ambrose Philips

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.
~Jane Fonda

I think that to one in sympathy with nature, each season, in turn, seems the loveliest.
~Mark Twain

My fashion has no time, no season. It doesn’t go out of style. If someone decides that clothes can go out of fashion, then you are deciding a woman can go out of fashion.
~Sonia Rykiel

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.
~Kent Nerburn

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No jealousy their dawn of love overcast,
nor blasted were their wedded days with strife;
each season looked delightful as it past,
to the fond husband and the faithful wife.
~James Beattie

It makes no sense to try to extend a friendship that was only meant to be a season into a lifetime.
~Mandy Hale

I think of love and marriage in the same way I do plants: We have perennials and annuals. The perennial plant blooms, goes away, and comes back. The annual blooms for just a season, and then winter arrives and takes it out for good. But it’s still enriched the soil for the next flower to bloom. In the same way, no love is wasted.
~Glennon Doyle Melton

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
~John Donne

Regardless, we are a two career household, and it’s Dario’s season, and I’m really excited about going racing.
~Ashley Judd

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What I find most disturbing about Valentine’s Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.
~Lewis Black

I love cuffing season. It’s a very inspiring season for those who want to be inspired.
~SZA

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I like sugar, be it candy, this season’s pumpkin chocolate chip bars, or wine. Sugar is bad for me. It just sits on my tummy, causing my middle child Esme to ask if we are having a fourth baby. Rude!
~Alicia Coppola

Children live in close touch with the seasons. Only a few years have been marked in their memories; they are still surprised by the miracle of spring, the hush of falling snow, autumn’s glorious blaze of color.
~Ethel Pochocki Marbach

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
~Fred Rogers

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During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it’s being with my kids.
~Tom Brady

My wife and two children traveled with me on locations all last season.
~Martin Milner

After the season I always go back to my country and try to make the kids happy. That’s the best feeling for me, when I see those smiling faces on the kids and you know how excited they are.
~Zaza Pachulia

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As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.
~Sandra Boynton

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
~David Letterman

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
~Terrence Howard

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
~Dave Barry

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The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.
~P J O’Rourke

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
~Desiderius Erasmus

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When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.
~Will Ferrell

The joke I wanted to put into one of the promos for this new season, was to have a guy come up to me and say, Hey! Tony! I love your show, I’ve watched you every night since you started! And then I’d say, Ah! You’re the one!
~Tony Danza

When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.
~Joe Namath

I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying – from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it’s the funniest show on television.
~Sean Hayes

This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive.
~Ellen Muth

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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
~George Takei

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.
~Margaret J Wheatley

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.
~Philip Pullman

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
~Charles Dickens

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die.
~Ecclesiastes 3:1

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
~James Madison

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Autumn Hills, Study
© Silvia Trujillo

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During a panic attack, I remember that today is just today and that is all that it is. I take a deep breath in and I realize that in this moment I am fine and everything is okay. More importantly, I am reminded that my A.P.C. jeans are so perfectly worn in that they are appropriate for any season and I am suddenly at ease.
~Max Greenfield

You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season.
~Tommy Hilfiger

Our look and image never change dramatically from one season to the next, so we need an edge.
~Tommy Hilfiger

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.
~Nicole Richie

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The bit that I’ve always loved about modeling is show season: the hype, the chaos, the calm just before you walk out. It’s your moment ‒ especially when there’s no one before you.
~Adwoa Aboah

I’ll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi’s rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
~Kate Moss

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A lot of the time, we’re shooting summer campaigns in winter because they have to come out the next season. It’s the hardest to feel great in a bikini when it’s cold… so I appreciate a swimsuit shoot that’s in warm weather.
~Gigi Hadid

I think tights make a comeback out of necessity every season: you can only go so far with naked legs in the cold! You’ve got to protect yourself. I remember going to a fashion show and saying, ‘And it’s okay if I wear nude tights with this?’ to the designer, who looked at me like I just killed his dog or something.
~Anna Kendrick

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Seasons are really annoying. You get a really great pair of shoes or a beautiful pair of boots, and then you try to get them again four months later, and they say, ‘Oh no, that was last season.’
~Daphne Guinness

My favorite event of the season is the Costume Institute Gala at the Met in May. To that I’ll wear custom Vera Wang.
~Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don’t have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.
~Ralph Lauren

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In fashion design, you can divide people into two groups. You have people who come with an aesthetic that is there forever, even if it evolves. Then you have people I call ‘jumpers.’ One season it can be this; the next season it’s completely something else. I always knew I am more of a jumper.
~Raf Simons

Every season has its lipstick trend, and just because your perfect color is a pinky beige, that doesn’t mean you can’t wear deep burgundy.
~Bobbi Brown

I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.
~John Barton

I have a problem with fashion magazines sometimes ‒ they seem to have these dogmas or uniforms. ‘This is the way you must look; this is this season’s must-have.’ I really resent the phrase ‘must-have.’ I prefer to decide for myself what I think is beautiful or fashionable.
~Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

I’m not that interested in fashion… When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
~Bruce Oldfield

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that’s why people like me.
~Sonam Kapoor

I have never had anything to do with the kind of fashion that is influenced by the press or identified with the spirit of the season. My clients come for me; they come back each season for my spirit. That’s the reality.
~Giorgio Armani

With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don’t question anything. I’m thinking of what I’d like to wear.
~Olivier Theyskens

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I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even the term ‘fashion’ is about change. It’s about newness. And what that newness means is different every 10 years, every five years.
~Narciso Rodriguez

I like cool jackets – a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it, and you’ll wear it frequently, so it can really set the tone of your uniform for the season.
~John Legend

I’ve had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion.
~Nina Garcia

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects — furniture, clothes, jewellery — that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
~Carl Honore

I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.
~Manolo Blahnik

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Hollywood and fashion are symbiotic partners, especially during awards season.
~Brad Goreski

Award season is such an exciting time of the year and I enjoy seeing who is nominated, who wins and — like most women — the fashions.
~Camille Grammer

While I try to keep my fitness regimen consistent, during awards season, I’m especially conscious of what I’ll be wearing and plan my workouts accordingly.
~Kate Hudson

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I don’t know if anybody’s ever ready for another award season. It’s kind of like Christmas.
~James McAvoy

My season 2 Good Wife wrap gift was this deluxe package of Mortal Kombat. I played it for, like, two weeks straight.
~Matt Czuchry

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It’s nice to win a trophy every season and say every year, ‘OK, I won something.’
~Thibaut Courtois (soccer)

For me, a good season is one that ends with a trophy.
~Wojciech Szczesny (hockey)

All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim.
~Bryan Procter

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Famous people come up to me, but I don’t know who they are because my sight is so bad. It’s always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don’t have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.
~Helena Bonham Carter

I don’t think I realized that the cost of fame is that it’s open season on every moment of your life.
~Julia Roberts

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@Writers Platform:

Early in the second season of The Andy Griffith Show, I ventured a suggestion for a line change to make it sound more ‘like the way a kid would say it.’ I was just 7 years old. But my idea was accepted, and I remember standing frozen, thrilled at what this moment represented to me.
~Ron Howard

I was promised on a time –
to have reason for my rhyme;
From that time unto this season,
I received nor rhyme nor reason.
~Edmund Spenser

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A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.
~Wilfred Owen

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
~José Martí

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I don’t have a writer’s room. I write all the shows myself. Ninety-one episodes a season, I’m sitting there at the computer writing and writing and writing because I want the voice to be authentic so that the audience is hearing from me and not other writers.
~Tyler Perry

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
~Leslie Stephen

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.
~Anthony Storr

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At last, the newspapers discovered the Bears. I kept writing articles about upcoming games, and by reading the papers, I learned editors like superlatives. I blush when I think how many times I wrote that the next game was going to be the most difficult of the season or how a new player was the fastest man in the West.
~George Halas

They say you don’t want to know how sausage is made. Book coverage is like sausage in that way: better not to know exactly how the gatekeepers of mainstream media choose which books to crown as must-reads each season ‒ just swallow it down with a cold beer and call it a night.
~Camille Perri

Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun.
~Raina Telgemeier

What’s great about Game of Thrones is they change the perspective, the POV, all the time. So you will have one story told by one character and you’ll go, ‘Oh my God, horrible’, and then maybe the season after you have the same story told but from the person you thought was just the most horrible, vile creature.
~Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

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Prewritten Prompt: season

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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
~Isaac Barrow

The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.
~Thomas S Monson

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
~Charles Spurgeon

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There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.
~Ernest Istook

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.
~Max Lucado

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
~Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
~Thomas Carlyle

To me it seems that youth is like spring, an overpraised season — delightful if it happen to be a favoured one, but in practice very rarely favoured and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
~Samuel Butler

I like these out-of-season crossings. When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again. Or perhaps it’s just a way of admitting a preference for empty ferries.
~Julian Barnes

The seasons long for each other, like men and women, in order that they may be cured of their excesses.
Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise.
Summer in its turn soon begins to sweat for something to quench its heat, and the mellowest of autumns will tire of gentility at last, and ache for a quick sharp frost to kill its fruitfulness.
Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.
So August gave way to September and there were few complaints.
~Clive Barker

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§ THE EXERCISE:

alternatives

calendar dates delineate
like fences, separate
but seasons bleed into each other
as a great liking may into love
and ambitions into affordable wars
sharing fates may mean sparing hate
building bridges instead of walls

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Update #24

Betting season is for gambling
The bedding season is for gamboling
Adventure seasons are for Rambo-ing

Network ratings are from sampling
Vote results are for tampering
Constituencies are for pampering

Progress made is lumbering
Sane intent gone slumbering
Hopes for peace beyond numbering

Polling numbers gone tumbling
Promises dashed are humbling
Faith undiminished yet crumbling

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spin cycle

season of the spitting rain
a soaking drizzle
the daily news
seeds of questions planted
answers earned
truth’s honor ungranted
a too-delicate rose
layered. center midst thorns ‘n thistles
opposing lies ‘n blowing whistles
voting’s past once-sure routine
main ones and those between
hourly contested
sourly threatened
fault the numbers
fear’s volatile weapon
cancered views
facts abused
makes reliving history
interesting news

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Bad Hair Day

Strike-out season
it wasn’t baseball
Thrown out reason
pleas don’t play well
Pitch thrown off
harmonic rejection
Voted out of house
no election
Game called off
no ejection
Came in last
there was no race
Extraneous needs
there was no love

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History #24

“Reasonably well” ‒ “Unseasonably warm”
Repartée ‘mongst the stately swarm
Whilst probing eyes uncovered the room
Pre-Guy Fawkes Day, threats of a bomb
Grand Parliament Halls planned for a tomb
But deep underneath caught with aplomb
Intent was damage but no harm done
Infamy certified and promptly hung
Man with a name a holiday soon

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leafing

leaves of the season
seasonal teasings
seeding to growing
greening to glowing
budding to shedding
falling like love
in the way it leaves

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5s ‘n 7s

dun gone red with foreboding
pearl white moonrise in eclipse
blue, the sky gone dark with night
shadows of smoke in the mist
bald lies, bold truths, both accuse

virgin states and moons
come of age, complete a year
may the thirteen shine
brotherhood out of season
humanhood’s faith in reason

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
~Pearl S Buck

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
~Thomas Fuller

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I never want to feel like I’ve achieved my goal. It’s like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it’s a good season. They feel like they’ll be punished.
~Heath Ledger

You don’t want to be outside during blackfly season.
~Shania Twain

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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
~Marcus Aurelius

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.
~Joe Paterno

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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
~Carl Jung

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
~Jim Rohn

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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
~Plutarch

It is always in season for old men to learn.
~Aeschylus

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All months, all days, all hours,
All sister seconds even, oh, all seasons
Beautify the world and bless
The walkers on it…
~Mark Van Doren

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The Olio
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The Salmagundi
Video Harvest: https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com

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