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And the best villains are the ones who have a genuine choice (meaning, to me as a reader it seems like a real choice) between doing a good thing or a bad thing, and actively choose to do the not-good thing. on 11 Feb 2010 at 1: 18 pm Tonii Kelly
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Just make sure the not-good stuff is stuff you can live with.
Kira Sabin: Over Dating? Join The Undating Revolution! Kira Sabin 2011
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Fortunately, they sweep other not-good singers into a montage until Darren Michaels.
Simon Cowell's The X Factor Finally Premieres: Let's Review It Together! 2011
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Fortunately, they sweep other not-good singers into a montage until Darren Michaels.
Simon Cowell's The X Factor Finally Premieres: Let's Review It Together! 2011
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Just make sure the not-good stuff is stuff you can live with.
Kira Sabin: Over Dating? Join The Undating Revolution! Kira Sabin 2011
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You would think there would be a general consensus on which was your good stuff and which was your not-good stuff, but in fact it's the opposite -- the more likely a story is to be the favorite of some, the more likely it is that there will be others who roundly detest it.
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Cultural things that are not good rapidly pass from our awareness, unless they are so not-good that they become known and honored for it.
Some have greatness thrust upon them… Fred Perry 2010
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Although the move falls in line with Google's philosophy to do good, Mozilla Firefox's director of community development took to his blog to allege that Google is involved in some very not-good action.
Google is 'evil,' Amazon drops WikiLeaks, and Santa's being tracked: Evening links Melissa Bell 2010
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What seems to be going on is that people have defined science fiction as bad, and so if they are confronted with good science fiction — which they perceive as a contradiction in terms — then it must either be redefined as not-good or not-science-fiction.
Genres of Fiction, and Why They Aren’t Discrete Entities 2010
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Cultural things that are not good rapidly pass from our awareness, unless they are so not-good that they become known and honored for it.
Archive 2010-01-01 Fred Perry 2010
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