Tim Powers
Tim Powers
Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare. His 1988 novel On Stranger Tides served as inspiration for the Monkey Island franchise of video games and was optioned for adaptation into the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film...
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Each floor had a little more damage the higher we went. By the time we got to the seventh floor, there was a lot of damage. By the time we got to the ninth floor, it would take your breath away.
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It is a big score for us, no doubt about it. It takes a potential Liberal leadership candidate away from the Liberals.
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We swam OK tonight. You could tell that we were still a little tired.
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I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?
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We were undefeated in the conference coming into championships, but we had holes in our line-up in championships that we can cover in dual meets.
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Brett is undefeated in the 50 free on the year. There are ten guys only a tenth of a second in front of him and ten guys a tenth of a second behind him, he has as good of shot as anybody.
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Brett did a fantastic job and I am very proud of him.
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This is the hardest meet in the world and there is no room for error. It is an exciting meet, it is a fast meet and it is a fun meet.
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I am very proud of the swimmers and divers, they all did a great job. We set several records and probably 80 percent of the guys had lifetime best performances. Our hats are off to UNLV, they deserved to win and they did an outstanding job.
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I'm not sure there are words to describe it.
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By Tuesday, we realized just how bad it was going to be.
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Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.
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I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.
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The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.