Closest Quotes - Page 6

• As a guy comedian, your special is probably the closest thing to the excitement of a wedding day. It's your first one, and you want it to be perfect, and you want it to mean something. You want it to look good.

  Michael Che

  Mean, Perfect, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

  Jane Goodall

  War, Winning, Brain

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• The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'

  Jennifer Grant

  Memories, Dad, Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

  Kenny Guinn

  Children, Believe, Abuse

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• The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes. Everyone else is struggling.

  Tina Fey

  Struggle, Athlete, Kim

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• I figure a lot of folks are probably looking to find out if Moses Malone is into that stuff, but the closest I come to drugs is drinking a Coca-Cola. I don't want that cocaine; it's not for me.

  Moses Malone

  Drinking, Drug, Want

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• I never really set out to research any of these stories. I try to lead an interesting life though. I guess the closest I came to research was when I applied to work at the state mental institution in Austin, TX. I wanted to work the night shift like Ken Kesey did when he wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I thought that might inspire me to write a book that great.

  Arthur Bradford

  Book, Writing, Night

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I both loved and hated South Pasadena. On the one hand, it was so diverse - all my closest friends were immigrants or had immigrant parents. On the other hand, it was a bit conservative - in a sort of wholesome, Midwestern, small-town sense. I never met a single writer until I moved to New York City for college.

  Porochista Khakpour

  New York, College, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If there was no risk, it wouldn't be art. It wouldn't be worth making. There is risk even in a fairy tale. Fiction is closest to pure narrative, and pure narrative is simply the logic we try to impose on an ever-changing reality.

  Chris Abani

  Art, Reality, Risk

  Interview with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• I always tell my fans that are closest to me, if it's not coming from my mouth, my website, or my appointed person, then it's generally not true. Or it's an exaggeration.

  Katy Perry

  Fans, Mouths, Website

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• We're trained to believe we should cling to one person only. Yet there are so many people who pass in and out of our lives. Good people, worth people, interesting people. Most of them stay for a little while and then move on. Some of them find a place with us and, if we let them, they enrich us. Don't close yourself off from the rest of the world, Eve. If you find someone who can make you understand a little more, laugh every now and then, give you a new experience, then never feel guilty. You'll just have more to give back to those who are closest to you.

  Iris Johansen

  Good Life, Believe, Moving

  Iris Johansen (2008). “Quicksand: An Eve Duncan Forensics Thriller”, p.191, St. Martin's Press

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• I have a little gypsy palace here in New York. It's all mirrors, and I have my own garden. It's so secluded - the closest thing to a caravan I could find!

  Neon Hitch

  New York, Garden, Mirrors

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Texting has become my favorite way to communicate. I feel like many of my relationships are based in this, because in a sense it feels the closest to actual conversation that isn't the phone.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Phones, Texting, Way

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• It's sometimes hard to accept that the people you love and feel the closest to may have different dreams and goals from yours, and those are valid. And I've felt that way: accepting people's differences and recognizing them as valid choices even if they're different from your own.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Dream, Differences, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My relationship with my sister is so central to my life. She's my closest friend, my biggest supporter, and I know she would say the same about me.

  Emily Giffin

  My Sister, Knows, Closest Friends

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

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• Some of my very closest friends are my guy friends, going back to the third grade, so I believe in the integrity of the male-female friendship.

  Emily Giffin

  Integrity, Believe, Guy

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

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• What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Yankees, People

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• I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.

  Joanne Harris

  Thinking, Long, Mentor

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• The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

  Bono

  Artist, Rolling, Albums

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• Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look at mortgage equity withdrawal as the closest thing to a free lunch.

  Paul McCulley

  Lunch, Withdrawal, Looks

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• You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

  Rodney Atkins

  Song, Writing, Eye

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• Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

  Henry James

  Pulse, Details, Stories

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• And concentrating on the spot where the two spindles should be is the closest I get to looking Hannah's eyes as she tells my story.

  Jay Asher

  Eye, Two, Stories

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.214, Penguin

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• He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books...The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Book, Home, Sleep

  "Seabiscuit: An American Legend". Book by Laura Hillenbrand, 2001.

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• Darkwing Duck and Don Karnage are the most fun to do, because they're both probably the closest to me - I kinda improvise a lot of them, kinda ad lib.

  Jim Cummings

  Fun, Ducks, Ads

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