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• ...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.

  Alasdair Gray

  Writing, World, Want

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• homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Missing Someone, Always Trying, Long

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.

  e. e. cummings

  Clever, Heart, Thinking

  E.E. Cummings (2015). “The Enormous Room”, p.102, Xist Publishing

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• Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

  Ville Valo

  Writing, Journey, Track

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• When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

  Steven Tyler

  Airplane, Thinking, Needs

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• I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits.

  Aisha Tyler

  Waiting, Toronto, Canada

  "Archer’s Smart, Sexy Aisha Tyler Talks The Talk About Archer, The Talk, Xiii And Her Standup Career!". Interview with Sheldon Wiebe, eclipsemagazine.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside - but let's get back to reality.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Reality, Thinking, Entrepreneur

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• We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.

  John Oates

  Teenager, Years, Two

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• Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.

  Gary Oldman

  Couple, Nice, Years

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• If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Dream, Knocked Down

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• The key is just to ignore the pain, because physical comedy only works if you see someone get hurt and they aren't actually hurt. If someone gets hit in the face with a bat, falls down, and gets back up, it's funny. If they stay down and their jaw is wired shut in the next scene, it's really tragic and weird. You have to pretend it doesn't hurt.

  Chris Pratt

  Hurt, Pain, Fall

  "Parks and Recreation's Chris Pratt on the Hilarious Third Season and the Surprise of Rob Lowe". Interview with Christopher Rosen, movieline.com. January 26, 2011.

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• I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

  Nancy Reagan

  Inspirational, Giving, Optimism

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• I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

  Henry Rollins

  Mean, Talking, Appreciate

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• Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

  Mickey Rourke

  Fighting, Men, Able

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• We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

  Paul Ryan

  Feet, People, Safety

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• Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

  Alan Shepard

  Believe, Pilots, Fields

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• We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.

  Alan Shepard

  Design, Together, Gone

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• If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.

  Keith Sweat

  Fall, Life Is, Ifs

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• But - but the greatest way to witness is by walking that straight and narrow and also realizing that you're going to mess up. That's what grace is for. We're going to fall, but we've got to get back up. And you've got to improve. And that's what I'm all about.

  Tim Tebow

  Fall, Grace, Way

  "Tim Tebow Discusses Faith and Football in the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. June 3, 2011.

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• Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Running, Games, Long

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• To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Birthday, Exercise, Up Early

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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• Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teaching, Giving, Empowering

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons

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• the smile you give is the smile you get back.

  Goldie Hawn

  Giving

  Goldie Hawn (2006). “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, p.19, Penguin

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• I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.

  Katherine Hannigan

  Eye, Valleys, Littles

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• Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed—although he doesn’t know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then you’re simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Lonely, Believe, Years

  Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.8, Penguin

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