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• I had an unorthodox high-school experience; I shifted around to different schools. When I got to college and met Larry Sacharow, who ran the theatre department [at Fordham University in NYC], he was the first person to say ‘I believe in you.’ At that point, I just needed someone to say ‘I see you, I get you, let’s go.’ It’s an amazing thing to borrow someone else’s confidence in you; it can change your life.

  Taylor Schilling

  Believe, School, College

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• The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the café or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.

  Ben Whishaw

  People, Finding Yourself, Looks

  "Interview: Actor Ben Whishaw on 'Cloud Atlas' + Playing Q in 'Skyfall'". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. October 31, 2012.

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• I think those little laundry detergent capsules are an amazing thing to have.

  Josh Brolin

  Thinking, Littles, Laundry

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• The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.

  Olivia Wilde

  Mother, Thinking, Shoes

  "Olivia Wilde Talks Motherhood and Son Otis: 'He's Amazing in Every Way'" by Brett Malec, www.eonline.com. October 29, 2014.

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• The core community is passionate about quality and getting it right. If you want to read some good criticisms of Wikipedia, probably the best place to go is to the Wikipedia article called 'criticisms of Wikipedia'... It was either the dumbest thing or the smartest thing I ever did. The dumbest thing for the obvious reasons, but the smartest thing because I don't think it could have had nearly as much impact as it has. One of the key things that inspired people to put a lot into it (was the charity aspect).

  Jimmy Wales

  Community, Abuse, Wikipedia

  "The Wisdom of One" by Nick Miller, www.theage.com.au. April 25, 2007.

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• Is it not an amazing thing, that men shall attempt to investigate the mystery of the redemption, when, at the same time that it is propounded to us as an article of faith solely, we are told that "the very angels have desired to pry into it in vain"?

  Laurence Sterne

  Angel, Men, Redemption

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.379

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• God has plans and purposes for each of our lives. But the beauty is that He doesn't call us and leave us on our own. Jesus actually lives in us to pull off the amazing things that He has invited us into.

  Louie Giglio

  Jesus, Purpose, God Has A Plan

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• When you're shooting a movie you are away from home most of the time. It's an amazing thing that we get to do what we get to do, but you definitely are away from the family more than you'd like to be.

  Adam Sandler

  Home, Shooting, Away From Home

  Source: movieweb.com

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• We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

  Iris Murdoch

  Secret, Inward, Most Amazing

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.159, Penguin

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• Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.

  Maria Dahvana Headley

  Mean, Animal, Broken

  Maria Dahvana Headley (2015). “Magonia”, p.11, HarperCollins

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• Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

  Carly Schroeder

  Play, Wake Up

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In pageants, you are evaluated from head to toe and its obviously all about looks, and as vain as that is, they can also bring you lots of opportunities to do amazing things.

  Katherine Webb

  Opportunity, Looks, Toes

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• We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.

  Pema Chodron

  Beautiful, Interesting, Together

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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• Adrenaline is an amazing thing.

  Mitch Gaylord

  Adrenaline

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• Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Men, Minutes, Conversation

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger.

  Jim Carrey

  Moving, People, Guy

  "Yes Man - Jim Carrey interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Culture, Accessibility

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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• When your spinal cord freezes up, you're vulnerable to everything. But he [Chrestopher Reese] was tough as nails. And he kept a great, kind of dark sense of humor about it, but also was able to accomplish amazing things.

  Robin Williams

  Dark, Nails, Able

  Source: www.rd.com

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• A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.

  Joan Bauer

  Heart, Half, Chance

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Squashed”, p.83, Penguin

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• We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong, War, People

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• You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.

  Brandi Carlile

  Life Lesson, Divorce, First Love

  "Bear Creek : A Conversation With Brandi Carlile, Plus Rocket Juice & The Moon by Galen Hawthorne". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 04, 2012.

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• You can do amazing things when you believe.

  Gerard Way

  Believe, Can Do

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• How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

  Tim Harford

  Phones, Cells, Ideas

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• After A Perfect Storm came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as Arizona, that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.

  Lori Foster

  Perfect, Storm, World

  "Interview: Lori Foster, 'Bare It All'". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. May 1, 2013.

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• The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt like it was the right thing to do.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Inspiring, Special, Winner

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