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• Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don't work.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Mother, Writing, Realizing

  "Between Friends". Interview with Jenny Allen, www.goodhousekeeping.com. July 7, 2010.

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• But I'm not superstitious. I don't really eat dinner before I go on stage, because digesting a lot of food kind of shuts you down. And I try not to get involved in emotional conversations with anyone beforehand either, so I've got a clear head.

  Michael Bolton

  Emotional, Clear Head, Trying

  "Michael Bolton: I never realised my hair was such a big deal". Interview with Rhiannon Vivian, www.mirror.co.uk. October 12, 2008.

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• What dancing has helped me with is blocking; it makes me comfortable with my body. You know how to hit your mark, you know how to embody a swagger. But sitting down and looking across the table at another actor and being able to go to battle on screen is nothing to do with singing or dancing.

  Columbus Short

  Block, Dancing, Singing

  Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 2, 2009.

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• When I started to get older and I thought, "Well, you know now I'm kinda ready to settle down. And I really want to give to children now." Because I feel like I've done everything that I wanted to do in my entire life.

  Aleta St. James

  Children, Giving, Done

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I don't intend to kind of like wind down and get decrepit. I have a challenge to keep myself going. To eat right. To exercise.

  James, son of Zebedee

  Exercise, Wind, Challenges

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

  Paul Krugman

  Tools, Might, Painful

  "Why Paul Krugman thinks inflation fears are baloney". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. November 3, 2014.

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• We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.

  William Perry

  Fashion, Team, Passion

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• I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.

  Henry Miller

  Integrity, Home, Writing

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Capricorn”, Grove/Atlantic

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• There's a lot of craft in songwriting. The divine inspiration is when the idea comes. It may be a riff. It may be a word. It may be a phrase. It may be a title. Sometimes, in the best of both worlds, that divine inspiration extends through the whole song. I've literally sat down and written a song from beginning to end, almost complete lyrics and everything without ever stopping...in two minutes. The chorus of 'She's Gone' was like that.

  John Oates

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control.

  Michael Moore

  Running, Country, Needs

  Michael Moore (2004). “Dude, Where's My Country?”

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• It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts down, and you follow your instincts. Or, at least, you.

  Mike Carey

  Running, Brain, Doe

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• As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

  Thomas Davis

  Wind, Land, Waiting

  Thomas Osborne Davis (1920*). “Thomas Davis: Selections from His Prose and Poetry”

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• I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that’s beckoning to you.

  Rachel Klein

  Struggle, Moments, Eyelids

  Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber

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• The part of you that is unhampered by illusion-the illusion of time, the illusion of powerlessness, the illusion of impossibility-i s waiting for you to slow down and open up so that it can speak to your consciousness. In some unguarded moment, you will hear its wildly improbable words and know that they are guiding you home.

  Martha Beck

  Home, Waiting, Consciousness

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• Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.

  Brian Cox

  Rocks, Balls, Looks

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• The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.

  William Scranton

  Morning, Islands, Eight

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• Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

  William Scranton

  Strong, Morning, Essence

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• The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Eye, Dark, Sea

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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• A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.

  Lee Grant

  Stars, Names, Chance

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• He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Horse, Stars, Dark

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• He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash him down and give him a big feed of rashers and eggs and mashed potatoes with loads of butter and salt and onions.I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling.

  Frank McCourt

  Country, War, Dark

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.317, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.

  Henry Miller

  Hate, Writing, Letters

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• If you're driving your car and someone winds the window down and gives you the finger and calls you an asshole, instead of giving him the finger back and calling him an asshole back, you just pull a funny face, and he doesn't know how to react to that, because you're using different rules.

  Steve Coogan

  Wind, Giving, Car

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 20, 2008.

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• Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed away in 2003. I became very guilty and began to spend a lot of time with older people. I listened carefully to their stories.

  Mabel Cheung

  Daughter, Mother, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.

  Andrew Bird

  Feet, Looks, Earth

  Source: www.avclub.com

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