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• I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, 'Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn't want to write me an email back!' I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone.

  Max Greenfield

  Writing, Phones, Email

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

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• It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

  Bernard Arnault

  Style, Arms, Take Time

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• My husband's a stunt man, and he dragged me to stunt driving school with him because I hate driving and he felt that it would help to make me feel more comfortable. And it did in certain ways, and in certain ways I'm still not.

  Joy Bryant

  Husband, Hate, School

  "'Hit & Run's' Joy Bryant on Dax Shepard, Stunt Driving and Nude Senior Citizens" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 22, 2012.

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• My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Moving, Writing, Progress

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• I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

  Adam Brody

  Character, Thinking, Age

  Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.

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• Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Ideas, Two, Identity

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• You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

  Erskine Bowles

  Real, Weakness, Want

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• I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.

  Laura Benanti

  Rap, Thinking, Musical

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• In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Attitude, War, Party

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• Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Skills, People, Cookies

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• We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.

  Mitchell Baker

  Development, Release, Projects

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• For some ungodly reason, I end up being naked in a lot of stuff. But there is a certain grace and kudos that come with taking your clothes off on the first day, a respect that is given by the rest of the cast.

  Paul Bettany

  Clothes, Grace, Naked

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.

  Randy Bachman

  People, Style, Buying

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• If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.

  Saffron Burrows

  People, Important, Desire

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• The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

  Simon Baker

  Thinking, Arrogance, Arrogant

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

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• I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

  Wes Borland

  Unique, Player, Guitar

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• There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.

  Anne Carson

  Want, Facts, Different

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• What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.

  Brian Chesky

  Cities, People, Culture

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• Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go back to that 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, and that forms the core voice. I can draw on teens from 1964 to 2001 to find a part of the voice I need.

  Chris Crutcher

  Thinking, Years, Voice

  Interview with Jennifer M. Brown, www.publishersweekly.com. Mar 12, 2001.

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• A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

  Dan Chaon

  Stories, World, Kind

  "Staying Awake with Dan Chaon". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I can celebrate food anytime. I love cheese. When I crave a certain food, I just eat it.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Cheese, Celebrate, Crave

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Girl, Lucky, Looks

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

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• I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.

  Jon M. Chu

  Poison, Really Great

  "Interview: Director Jon M. Chu On 'Extraordinary Dancers', 'G.I. Joe 2', and 'Masters Of The Universe'". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. October 26, 2012.

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• It's not like I don't want to play the guy next door. But sometimes they're not the best written or the most complicated. But I am very, very particular about my bad boys. There are certain types of characters I will not play. I've said no so many times to so many parts that are just way too dark. You have to be careful.

  Kim Coates

  Character, Dark, Boys

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• The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

  Alan Cumming

  Play, Stories, Television

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