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• I heard more of the stories from my mother and my granny and my aunts that would describe what they had known that he didn't often talk about. I remember seeing [grandfather] as a child. He was working in a mine that was fairly close to their home there in Betsy Lane, Ky., and it was so close in proximity that he wouldn't clean up or shower there. He would just drive back home. And I remember one time seeing him come in and it was like seeing an alien person show up because he was still covered in coal dust and soot, and it had a profound impact on me.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Mother, Children, Home

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

  Pascal Mercier

  Feelings, Gold, Bars

  Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.332, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Dark, Moon

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.186, Chapman and Hall

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• That's the evergreen nature of a great song. They can be resurrected. They can be covered. They can find new relevance due to changing circumstances in history.

  John Legend

  Song, Circumstances, Evergreens

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• No one teaches you how to think about money in medical school or residency. Yet, from the moment you start practicing, you must think about it. You must consider what is covered for a patient and what is not.

  Atul Gawande

  School, Thinking, Medical

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• I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I know and love, helping them realize their dreams. I dream about being able to express myself through acting and writing, definitely. I dream about bringing more realism into the world. Sometimes I just feel like certain things are so glossed over and covered up and swept under the rug and I just want to bring them out.

  Alicia Keys

  Dream, Writing, Helping Others

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• Chain me with roaring bears;
  Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,
  O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones,
  With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;
  Or bid me go into a new-made grave,
  And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;
  Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;
  And I will do it without Fear or Doubt,
  To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Men, Skulls

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.127, StarWalk Kids Media

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• That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling up and expiring in the great furnace-blast of the sun.

  Paul Bowles

  Worry, Doubt, Dry

  Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”

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• When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?

  Milan Kundera

  Differences, Doe, Stones

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• I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a travellers perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.

  Trudi Canavan

  Reading, Character, Perspective

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• According to a new poll, the number of Americans who trust Hillary is dropping. Specifically into a hole that Hillary covered with leaves.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Numbers, Dropping, Holes

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• When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.

  Simon Van Booy

  Beautiful, Children, Father

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.27, Oneworld Publications

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• In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

  Steve Aylett

  Stars, Book, Sea

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• The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.

  Anthony Browne

  Drawing, Battle, Littles

  "A life in books: Anthony Browne". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

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• Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.

  Andy Rooney

  Modern Life, Way, Faces

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• My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well." Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.

  T. D. Jakes

  Mother, Band, Clean

  T. D. Jakes (2016). “Woman, Thou Art Healed and Whole: A 90 Day Devotional Journey”, p.18, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I'm baptized by America and covered in leeches.

  Immortal Technique

  America, Technique, Leeches

  Song: Bin Laden

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• I landed on Gay Pride and I couldn't believe my eyes! Not only were gay people real - I had only heard rumours - but they had parades. There were men covered in glitter bound together with furry handcuffs. I felt like I was in outer space, I honestly thought I had arrived at the happiest place on earth.

  Pamela Anderson

  Real, Believe, Eye

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• I'm just happy that I'll have someone to give all my shoes to! I'll have someone to take over everything. It's funny because I'm having a lot of fun buying clothes for my daughter. She already has shoes for when she's a size eight. She's covered for a while.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Daughter, Fun, Eight

  "Kristin Cavallari Reveals the 1 Laguna Beach Line That People Won't Let Her Forget". Interview with Caitlin Gallagher, www.popsugar.com. October 25, 2015.

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• The woman is skin covered prozac I like to call her. Half the trick to a film like this is keeping a sort of emotional level going and keeping an attitude that induces creativity on the set. You have to be in a good mood for that. You have to be happy to make a comedy I think and Anne sort of ensured that every time by expressing most of her feelings through the exciting medium of dance.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Attitude, Creativity, Emotional

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There is a hollow, holey cylinder running from hilt to point in my machete. When I blow across the mouthpiece in the handle, I make music with my blade. When all the holes are covered, the sound is sad, as rough as rough can be and be called smooth. When all the holes are open, the sound pipes about, bringing to the eye flakes of sun on water, crushed metal. There are twenty holes. And since I've been playing music, I've been called all different kinds of fool - more times than Lobey, which is my name.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Running, Eye, Blow

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• There's a lot of food restriction in the Bible, but it does say you're allowed to eat crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. I decided to take advantage of that and eat a cricket. It was chocolate-covered, and I'm not sure that's the way they were served in Moses' time. But this was a rule that seemed crazy on the outside, then actually turned out to be pragmatic and compassionate.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Crazy, Chocolate, Doe

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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• While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Journey, Discipline, Track

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• Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff.

  Julia Child

  Giving Up, Mean, Years

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• Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

  Asne Seierstad

  War, Four, Solve

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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