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• I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.

  Mike DeWine

  Kids, Texting, Benign

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. March 19, 2013.

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• As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

  Britt Ekland

  Wings, Agony, Waiting

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• You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little like, 'Oh my God! Oh no, bugs!' and I had to say, 'Honey this is fine. This is their world and it's all part of being in the country.' I realized, 'Oh my God, my girls are really city girls.'

  Anna Gunn

  Girl, Country, Cities

  The AMC Interview, www.amc.com. 2010.

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• I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

  Kenny G

  Mean, Thinking, Jazz

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

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• There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

  Phyllis George

  Sweet, Lines, Tough

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• If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine.

  Robert Goulet

  People, Ifs

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• All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

  Mark Hoppus

  Country, Son, Cowboy

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• I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Taken, Thinking, Interviews

  "Nicholas Hoult: 'Can you not just say I was lighthearted and witty?'". Interview With Ziba Adel, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.

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• I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.

  Sharon Horgan

  Thinking, Laughing, Black

  "Sharon Horgan: 'There is a black streak in everything I've done'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

  Tom Hardy

  Men, Elephants, Splits

  "Tom Hardy: the rake's progress". Interview With Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2010.

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• I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.

  Janis Ian

  Kings, Thinking, Years

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• I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

  Max Irons

  Running, Mean, Kids

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• Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

  Derek Jacobi

  People, Expectations, Trying

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• As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

  Kate Jackson

  Cancer, Looks, Look At Me

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• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  Fran Kranz

  Choices, Actors, Comedy

  "Interview with Fran Kranz, Star, CBS’s Welcome to the Captain". Interview with Alex Remington, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2008.

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• That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!

  Jemima Kirke

  Kids, People, Portraits

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

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• It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums.

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Pudding, Plums, Rich

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• I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.

  John Denver

  Philosophy, Cake, Wife

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• That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Mind, Looks

  'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' (1974) pt. 3, ch. 25

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• If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

  Louis Kahn

  Art, People, Want

  Louis I. Kahn (1983). “ルイス・カーン: 発想と意味”

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• People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

  Rick Kaplan

  Wine, People, Age

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• I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

  Amos Lee

  People, Soul, Want

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• My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

  Richard MacDonald

  Art, Goal, Soul

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• Home will always be Northern Ireland but my schedule means for the next few years I won't be there as much. I can't do the same things that I did a year ago. That is I'm something conscious of, but I'm not sad about it. It's fine.

  Rory McIlroy

  Home, Mean, Years

  "Rory McIlroy: The year I choked and cried was also the year I grew up". Interview with Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

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• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  Samantha Morton

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

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