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• I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

  Jim Harrison

  New York, Cities, Paris

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• There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

  Mark Strand

  Writing, Would Be, Want

  Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

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• Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the United States and Japan, the break with the past has been particularly traumatic.

  Susan Sontag

  Country, Giving Up, Past

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

  Lord Acton

  Atheism, Sin, Liable

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• Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.

  Redd Foxx

  Way, Should

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• When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

  Arthur Bloch

  Adversity, Needs, Tools

  Arthur Bloch (2003). “Murphy's Law: The 26th Anniversary Edition: The 26th Anniversary Edition”, p.57, Penguin

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• The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

  Bob Newhart

  Play, Discipline, Fascination

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• Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Heart, Men, Guilt

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.19, Jester House Publishing

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• Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Lying, Identity, Fixed

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.34, Luigi Pirandello

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• It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.

  Martin Amis

  Fashion, Thinking, Half

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

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• I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Age, Doctrine, Fiction

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.

  Thomas Gray

  Atheist, Religion, Helping

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• I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.

  David Chase

  Thinking, Artistic Life, Self

  "Q&A: David Chase Beyond The Sopranos". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2012.

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• It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.

  David Hume

  Book, Eye, Air

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.697, Delphi Classics

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• The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in nature is based upon the belief in God. Things are as they are whether there is a God or not. Logically, to believe in design one must start with God. He, or it, is not a conclusion but a datum. You may begin by assuming a creator, and then say he did this or that; but you cannot logically say that because certain things exist, therefore there is a God who made them. God is an assumption, not a conclusion. And it is an assumption that explains nothing.

  Chapman Cohen

  God, Believe, Data

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• Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

  Jay McInerney

  Stars, Successful, Movie Star

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• At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Mean, Blood, Body

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• It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Way, Paparazzi, Shops

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• What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed from without; born of the profoundest tendencies within a society, its direction is to a certain extent unpredictable, in much the same way as the eventual configuration of a tree's branches.

  Octavio Paz

  Art, Tree, Style

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• I really think there is a certain destiny in my life to lead people.

  Steve Garvey

  Destiny, Thinking, People

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• What is success? It isn't only about winning, but playing in a certain way.

  Kevin Keegan

  Winning, Way

  Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2011.

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• For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

  Kate Bush

  Children, School, Responsibility

  Interview with Brendan Martin, www.brendan.co.uk. April 7, 1978.

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• It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

  Jack Nicholson

  Want, Dinner, Very Good

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

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• It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.

  Guy Finley

  Want, Strange, Humans

  "Fear and the ‘Anti-Change Factor’" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

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• Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.

  Ann Beattie

  Thinking, Tea, Hollywood

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