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• My brother, who's a few years older then me, went to college in New York. He said all of these people from Saturday Night Live do improv together in Upright Citizens Brigade, and I thought, "Oh, that sounds really cool." So when I got braces and couldn't play music anymore, I said to my parents that I wanted to go to New York and take a class at that place. They were remarkably on board with it. I got on the train, went up, took a class and I loved it.

  Zach Woods

  Brother, Night, College

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Yesterday he told me he thought I would have to pretend to be weak, but he was wrong. I am weak already. I brace myself against the wall and press my forehead to my hands. It’s difficult to take deep breaths, so I take short, shallow ones. I can’t let this happen. They attacked me to make me feel weak. I can pretend they succeeded to protect myself, but I can’t let it become true.

  Veronica Roth

  Wall, Hands, Yesterday

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• We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Struggle, Positive Thinking, Firsts

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• Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!

  Homer

  Fighting, Men, Fire

  Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.452, Penguin

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• Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.

  J. K. Rowling

  Pain, Disappointment, Long

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• In the beginning, it was odd to have so much attention brought to my body type. I thought, "Uh-oh, brace yourself." But everyone has been so positive. During the first season, a woman came up to me at dinner and said, "I just want to thank you - watching you has made me proud of my body." I thought, What an amazing thing for someone to say! To make anyone feel good about themselves makes me feel good.

  Christina Hendricks

  Feel Good, Dinner, Firsts

  "Mad Men's Christina Hendricks on How to Embrace Your Curves". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. October 18, 2009.

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• I've always seen this overlap between medieval warfare and heavy metal. You see heavy metal singers and they'll have like a brace around their arm and they'll be singing about Orcs. So let's just make a world where that all happens. That all gets put together, the heavy metal, and the rock, and the battling, actually does happen. Let's not flirt around with this let's just do it.

  Tim Schafer

  Flirting, Rocks, Singing

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• If you're going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change.

  James Dobson

  Inspirational Life, Smooth Sailing, Today

  James Dobson (2001). “38 Values to Live By”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend. I wasn't ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that.

  Josh Brolin

  Girlfriend, Kids, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Would Be, Skinny, Models

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

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• If it's a broken part, replace it. If it's a broken arm then brace it. If it's a broken heart, then face it.

  Jason Mraz

  Heart, Broken, Wicked

  Song: Details In The Fabric, 2008

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• Mona knocked at the wrong time. “Uh…yeah…wait a minute, Mona -- ” Mona shouted through the door. “Room service, gentlemen. Just pull the covers up.” Michael grinned at Jon. “My roommate. Brace yourself.” Seconds later, Mona burst through the doorway with a tray of coffee and croissants. “Hi! I’m Nancy Drew! You must be the Hardy Boys!

  Armistead Maupin

  Coffee, Boys, Doors

  Armistead Maupin (1989). “Tales of the city ; More tales of the city ; Further tales of the city: an omnibus”, Vintage

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• Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

  Winston Churchill

  War, Moving, Fall

  Hansard 18 June 1940, col. 60

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• Hope is critical to both faith and charity. When disobedience, disappointment, and procrastination erode faith, hope is there to uphold our faith. When frustration and impatience challenge charity, hope braces our resolve and urges us to care for our fellowmen even without expectation of reward. The brighter our hope, the greater our faith. The stronger our hope, the purer our charity.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Disappointment, Procrastination, Frustration

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• We often hear of bad weather, but in reality no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some weather may be bad for farmers or crops, but for man all kinds are good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating.

  John Lubbock

  Rain, Sunshine, Reality

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• It's amazing how much time and money can be saved in the world of dating by close attention to detail. A white sock here, a pair of red braces there, a gray slip-on shoe, a swastika, are as often as not all one needs to tell you there's no point in writing down phone numbers and forking out for expensive lunches because it's never going to be a runner.

  Helen Fielding

  Writing, Shoes, Lunch

  Bridget Jones's Diary "January" (1996)

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• Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension.

  Horace Mann

  Night, Fire, Evil

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• Talking Taboo is a groundbreaking book. This chorus of bold female voices is presenting the church with an opportunity to engage real but all too frequently avoided or unseen issues impacting countless Christian women today. Their candid essays cover a wide spectrum of perspectives. Readers will resonate with some and be shocked by others. Talking Taboo took courage to write. Reading taboo takes courage too. So buckle up and brace yourself for an eye-opening but vitally important read!

  Carolyn Custis James

  Christian, Real, Book

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• Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Shoes, Legs, Week

  "Kristi Yamaguchi: Olympic Medalist, Fitness Guru And Mom". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 26, 2011.

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• I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

  Brendon Urie

  School, Trumpets, Playing Drums

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• I wish it were O.K. in this country to look one's age, whatever it is. Maturity has a lot going for it, even in terms of esthetics. For example, you no longer get bubblegum stuck in your braces.

  Cyra McFadden

  Country, Maturity, Wish

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• If you're at the top, then brace for the fall.

  Tori Kelly

  Fall, Ifs

  Song: Funny

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• Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Cities, Tree

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.112, Gibbs Smith

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• Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones.

  Horace Bushnell

  Character, Perfect, Mind

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.294

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• It truly is a little intimidating to go speak at a middle school. Sure, on one hand the kids are only around 13 years old, but on the other hand, merely going back there reactivates the dorky, miserable feeling of being that age again. It isn't easy. As soon as I arrived I could almost feel the braces on my teeth, the don't-look-at-me slouch of my shoulders, the feathered wings of my bangs.

  Kristin Armstrong

  School, Kids, Hands

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