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• I've sort of heard that "it" girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know?

  Rachel McAdams

  Mean Girls, People, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

  Cliff Richard

  Regret, Guitar, Play

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• Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.

  Jeff Bezos

  Promise, Crowds, Chance

  "The best business advice from Jeff Bezos" by Eugene Kim, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Home is in my hair, my lips, my arms, my thighs, my feet and my hands. I am my own home. And when I wake up crying in the morning, thinking of how lonely I am, I pinch my skin, tug at my hair, remind myself that I am alive. Remind myself to step outside and greet the morning. Remind myself that it’s all about forward motion. It’s all about change. It’s all about that elusive state.
  Freedom.

  Diriye Osman

  Lonely, Morning, Home

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• The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

  Robert Plant

  Rocks, Once Upon A Time, Special

  "A little bit country, a little bit rock'n'roll" by Sylvie Simmons, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2008.

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• Because Jesus Christ has prepared Himself from the foundations of the world we can trust Him as one uniquely qualified through the fullness of His love for His Father and us.  His love, meekness, condescension, knowledge, power, commitment to agency, and obedience combine to bring this elusive peace to all of God’s children.  Our peace was purchased by the shedding of the innocent blood of God’s purest Son.  Our trust in His capacity to bring us this peace can be complete because that has been part of His work and His glory from the beginning.

  David Wright

  Jesus, Children, Father

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• What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as thought itself, and give it form... Maybe my paintings are all just little fragments of the Cosmic Dance suspended in time.

  James Nares

  Giving, Fleeting, Movement

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• What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

  David Brin

  Popularity

  David Brin (2010). “Startide Rising”, p.195, Spectra

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• The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Unique, Color, Essence

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• Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.

  Bayard Taylor

  Dream, Fate, Sky

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.5

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• My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of wonder, beauty, and adventurous expectancy which are conveyed to me by certain sights (scenic, architectural, atmospheric, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images encountered in art and literature.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Art, Writing, Sight

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, p.1753, eBookIt.com

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• Everyone, some sooner than others, must endure his or her own personal 'hell on earth.' It is important to keep searching for the small joys, although they are often the most elusive. Trust that these joys will appear, sometimes unexpectedly, and often in life's darkest moments.

  Katie Gill

  Inspirational, Joy, Important

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• I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.

  Stevie Jackson

  Thinking, Groups, Shy

  "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.

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• The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards: confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love.

  Pete Hamill

  Lonely, Promise, Love And Friendship

  Pete Hamill (1994). “A Drinking Life: A Memoir”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive and mutely beautiful, the birds so sunstruck they were consumed by light, disembodied, turned into something sheer and fleet and scatter-bright.

  Don DeLillo

  Beautiful, Light, Silence

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Body Artist”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• . . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the opera is a banjo. I thought, That's an interesting way of saying No.

  Laurie Anderson

  Book, Yes You Can, Ideas

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• You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.

  Daniel Goldin

  Real, Fog, Darkness

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• I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

  K'naan

  Regret, Mistake, Passion

  "Discovery: K’Naan" by Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 27, 2012.

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• Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.

  Gelett Burgess

  Hate, Men, Cake

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• I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.

  Toby Jones

  Darkness, Giants, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.

  Peggy McIntosh

  Country, Giving Up, Doors

  "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack". Peggy McIntosh, Peace and Freedom Magazine (by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), July/August 1989.

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• The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.

  Lukas Foss

  Creative, Target, May

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• Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an act of nature as elusive as grace, and far more rare. ... I have never skated on black ice, but perhaps my children will. They'll know it, at least, when it appears: that the earth can stretch smooth and unbroken like grace, and they'll know as they know my voice that they were meant to have their share.

  Lorene Cary

  Art, Children, Equality

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• In Henry they had a forward so elusive that he was almost unplayable at his peak

  Gary Neville

  Gary Neville (2011). “Red: My Autobiography”, p.99, Random House

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• Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one. They are restless, irritable, and discontented, unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks-drinks which they see others taking with impunity.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Recovery, Men, Alcohol

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