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• A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

  Felicity Jones

  Reading, Hobbies, Scripts

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• If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Eye, Moon, Russia

  "We must aim for Mars, says moonwalker". Interview with James M. Clash, www.smh.com.au. May 24, 2013.

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• Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

  Thomas McGuane

  Fishing, Trout, Angling

  Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.13, Vintage

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• My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Truth, Imagination

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.257, Wordsworth Editions

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• The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

  Robert Greene

  Creating, Mind, Information

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.175, Profile Books

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• In short, it is about the multiple health benefits of consuming plant-based foods, and the largely unappreciated health dangers of consuming animal-based foods, including all types of meat, dairy and eggs.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Animal, Eggs, Meat

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.21, BenBella Books

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• The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

  Alice Munro

  Lust, Everyday, Skins

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Sep 11, 2014

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• The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.

  Sharon Olds

  Teaching, Nyu, Community

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.

  Paul Verlaine

  Spring, Army, Fire

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• Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore.

  Tracey Gold

  Mother, Selfish, Anorexia

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• We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.

  M. Scott Peck

  Meaningful, Thinking, Praying

  M. Scott Peck (2011). “The Road Less Travelled And Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety”, p.56, Random House

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• The president is out there today trying to talk about health care, and the reality is nobody cares about what he's saying on health care because this news is consuming everything. No president could tolerate that or should tolerate it.

  Leon Panetta

  Reality, Trying, President

  "CHENEY FINALLY BREAKS SILENCE / Vice president defends decision not to reveal shooting for a day" by Carolyn Lochhead, www.sfgate.com. February 16, 2006.

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• In this very uncertain time for the media, serious investigative reporting - the expensive, time-consuming stuff - is under enormous pressure at newspapers and other commercial news organizations. Non-profits such as the Center for Public Integrity are taking on this vital work and without them the prospects for investigative reporting would be even more dire. The Center has been properly celebrated for its careful, rigorous work, and to my mind it has now ascended to the status of national treasure.

  Alex Jones

  Integrity, Organization, Media

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• Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Pride, Fire, Lust

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• Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and straight forward. Having died to self interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us Being; without cause give it back again. Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion. Religion seeks grace and favor, but those who gamble these away are God's favorites, for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the door of gain and loss.

  Rumi

  Strong, Buddhist, Loss

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Love Is Reckless”

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• What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Different, Purpose

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming.

  Don King

  Integrity, Lying, Numbers

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• Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.

  Nick Gordon

  Eight, Light, Long Ago

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• Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

  Winston Churchill

  Business, Men, Advertising

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• You don’t choose who you fall in love with, do you? And once you do fall in love—that obsessive sort of love, that all-consuming love, where two people can’t stand to be apart from each other for even a moment—how are you supposed to let a love like that pass you by?

  Jordan Belfort

  Falling In Love, Two, People

  Jordan Belfort (2007). “The Wolf of Wall Street”, p.34, Bantam

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• I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It's all-consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the same time, it makes me nervous and self-conscious and emotional. Love exists. I know it does, because I'm madly, deeply, hopelessly in love.

  Simone Elkeles

  Emotional, Sight, Self

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• Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

  Lionel Shriver

  Age, Stories, Dull

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.17, Counterpoint Press

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• The worst thing about e-mail is that you can’t interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back, pointing out all their mistakes and faulty assumptions. It’s frustrating and it’s time-consuming. God bless phone calls.

  George Carlin

  Mistake, Phones, Mail

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• We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible and Henry tidying up after someone who already thought she had tidied up. When I kissed Henry I wasn't imagining Ex-boyfriend #13; I was picturing Husband #1.

  Lisa Lutz

  Husband, Ex Boyfriend, Acceptance

  Lisa Lutz (2010). “The Spellmans Strike Again: Document #4”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Heart, Mean, Sleep

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.104, A&C Black

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