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• Brother dear,” I said, “did your soul leave your body while Amos was talking, or did you actually hear him? Egyptian gods real. Red Lord bad. Red Lord’s birthday: very soon, very bad. House of Life: fussy magicians who hate our family because dad was a bit of a rebel, whom you could take a lesson from. Which leaves us—just us—with Dad missing, an evil god about to destroy the world, and an uncle who just jumped off the building—and I can’t actually blame him.” I took a breath. [Yes, Carter, I do have to breathe occasionally.]

  Rick Riordan

  Brother, Uncles, Dad

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• Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Italian, Fancy, Ingredients

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• I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Mean, Thinking, Play

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• I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Voice, Alcohol, Sound

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

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• Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked. "Because they're fussy and demanding," answered Zee. "Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done," I told him.

  Patricia Briggs

  Jobs, Women, Car

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.53, Penguin

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• "Fussy eater" is a euphemism for "big pain in the ass."

  George Carlin

  Pain, Humorous, Ass

  "A Place for My Stuff". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1981.

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• People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it.

  Ted Allen

  Holiday, Responsibility, Thinking

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

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• I'm fussy. I'm stubborn. I want all the little details and I don't want to look like anyone else - that to me is very important.

  Goldie

  Important, Details, Looks

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• If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater.

  Steve Coogan

  Funny, Pay The Price, The End Of The Day

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• On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

  Julie Andrews

  Thinking, Too Much, Clutter

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• Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut widow's peak and, not least, his ridiculous accent that grew thicker or thinner depending on who he was talking to, did not look like a threat. He looked funny, a joke, a music-hall vampire. It had never previously occurred to Vimes that, just possibly, the joke was on other people.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cutting, Talking, Shoes

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• I do not know what dust is, I do not know where it comes from, I only know that it settles on things. I cannot see it in the air, or watch it fall. Sometimes Im home all day but I never see it sliding about looking for a place to rest when my back is turned. Does it wait til I go out? Or, does it happen in the night when I sleep? Dust is not fussy about the places it chooses, though it seems to prefer still objects. Sometimes, out of kindness, I let it lie for weeks. On some places it will lie forever. However, dust holds no grudges and once removed it will always return, in a friendly way.

  Ivor Cutler

  Kindness, Lying, Fall

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• I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Stress, Fall, Years

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• The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. He becomes fussy about filing, keen on seeing that pencils are sharpened, eager to ensure that the windows are open (or shut) and apt to use two or three different-colored inks.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Opportunity, Men, Two

  Parkinson's Law ch. 10 (1957)

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• A lot of things appearing under my byline were written in one draft. But when I started to write poetry, I started getting fussy about every syllable. I wouldn't allow the work to be seen unless it felt perfect. Not clunky at all, no clunky syllables. So, really, for the printed page, it had to have a feeling of rhythmic and syntactic verisimilitude or something.

  Richard Meltzer

  Writing, Perfect, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

  Mark Twain

  Interesting, Curious, Nickels

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet... They are sensitive for others as well as for themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure, and they can take a joke.

  E. M. Forster

  Believe, Men, Class

  "What I Believe". Essay by E. M. Forster, 1938.

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• I've actually always been fussy about the work I do.

  Jeremy Irons

  Source: in.ign.com

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• People ask why I do monochromatic clothes; the reason is because I'm thinking in proportion to the world. In this room, your head is going to look so much more interesting if it's on a monochromatic column. Whereas I think people think of outfits and gets a little too fussy, a little too detailed. I'm always thinking of the line of a person standing with their head in a room and I always feel like a stalk, or a stem, or a pillar is nicer. I always think of everything architecturally.

  Rick Owens

  Thinking, Clothes, People

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• Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.

  Mason Cooley

  Loneliness, Views, Housekeeping

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• Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Thinking, Order, Waiting

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• It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.

  Julia Child

  Taken, Beef, Crowns

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• Why is it that all cars are women? Because they're fussy and demanding.

  Patricia Briggs

  Car

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• I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery.

  Brenda Ueland

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.

  Arshile Gorky

  Painting, Exhausted, Spots

  "Movements in art since 1945". Book by Edward Lucie-Smith, p. 15, 1975.

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