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• What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!

  Nora Ephron

  Cooking, Comforting, Hot

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.133, Vintage

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• When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.

  David Sedaris

  Teacher, Loneliness, School

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• I never just sit down and see what's on TV anymore. And also, I hate almost everything, so that keeps you reading magazines and doing crossword puzzles or whatever.

  Andy Richter

  Hate, Reading, Magazines

  Interview with Jonathan R. de la Manzana, Jr., believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

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• Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

  Paul Desmond

  Keys, Different, Balls

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• If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

  Brett Hull

  Sports, Fall, People

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• My activities tend to revolve around crossword puzzles, reading and playing piano and games with my friends.

  Rashida Jones

  Reading, Games, Piano

  "20Q: Rashida Jones". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. October 12, 2011.

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• I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.

  Betty White

  Passion, Exercise, Animal

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

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• There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

  Carl Sandburg

  Stress, Skills, Numbers

  Quoted inTheComplete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1986),'Notes for a Preface'.

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• Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta have a throbbing pulse going. But as far as what it's all about, there's a million ways to go. You have to invent a new code for every song. Then you have to break it. It's like Scrabble or a crossword puzzle on steriods. I could talk about the process for days. But it's never dull and there's no one way in.

  Dan Bern

  Song, Writing, Pulse

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• Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer

  Taylor Swift

  Fighting, Trying, Answers

  Song: Red, Album: Red, 2012

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• Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Book, Reading, Waiting

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• One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Color, Credit, Impossible

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• My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.

  Caroline Knapp

  Friday, Dog, New York

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• There's this moment sometimes, when you do a crossword puzzle and you have the one really long word. And once you get that, the whole thing kind of comes into focus. Sometimes it's just working things over in your mind and then finding that one line that kind of ties the song together, and now it works. It's a puzzle of sorts.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Ties, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.

  Bill Hybels

  Jesus, Naps, Long

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• I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.

  Carolyn Hax

  Successful, Filling In, Time To Kill

  "Carolyn Hax Live: With the usual apologies to wolves". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 05, 2016.

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• I was watchin' the news the other day, and I heard them talking about a criminal named Brian Regan same spelling and everything. He's gonna be in jail for the rest of his life. So I'm sitting there doing a crossword puzzle and all of a sudden I hear, It is unknown whether the charges against Brian Regan will lead to his execution. Guess I can put this down. Honey, did we pay that parking ticket?!

  Brian Regan

  Talking, Jail, News

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• Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.

  Leonora Carrington

  Giving, Competition, Wonderful

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• I became an actor because I love solving problems. I'm a big crossword puzzle person. I love doing research. One of the reasons I became Jewish is because I love text study.

  Anthony Heald

  Actors, Research, Study

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nice, Thinking, Decision

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• I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people who are hooked on that. But crossword puzzles, I just can't - if I get a puppy and I paper train him and I put the - if all of a sudden I'd open the paper and there's a crossword puzzle - 'No, no, you can't go on that, honey. I'll take it.'

  Betty White

  Numbers, People, Goes On

  "Actress-author Betty White". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2011.

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• I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.

  Paula Cole

  New York, Tvs, Puzzles

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• I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

  Laura Marling

  Morning, Coffee, Ideas

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

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• I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.

  Harriet Walter

  Thinking, Circles, Long

  "My body & soul". Interview with Catherine Rapley, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2009.

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• I know that I am not the only person who is alone in the world. I know that others sorrow in the night. That others pick up a razor and slice into their own skin, with greater or lesser success. I know that others look at their lives and see only silent failure and disconsolation, feeding the cat, checking their email, doing the crossword. I know that I am not the only person to have lived a life like mine. I am aware. (212)

  Robert Goolrick

  Cat, Night, Sorrow

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.212, Algonquin Books

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