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It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.

- Conrad Veidt

He runs a 4.9 in the 40, bench-presses 450 pounds and squats and dead-lifts over 600,

- Brian Anderson

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

- Richard Curtis

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.

- Calvin Trillin

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

- Max Lerner

Let there be a fresh breeze of new honesty, new idealism, new integrity. You have typewriters, presses and a huge audience. How about raising hell?

- Andy McGivern

What I was looking for was a lot of energy and we had that, especially in the second and third quarters. We utilized our presses, found one we liked and came out with a good third quarter.

- Arthur Bryant

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

- Napoleon Bonaparte