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• I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.

  Eric McCormack

  Character, Gay, Tv Shows

  "Whatever you Will" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2003.

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• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests. This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Art, Kindness, Humble

  Hattie McDaniel's Academy Awards acceptance speech for "Actress in a Supporting Role" Award for the film "Gone with the Wind", aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 29, 1940.

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• In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

  Max Beerbohm

  Character, Class, Two

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.81, 1st World Publishing

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• The event concept was sparked from a shared observation amongst these leading lifestyle brands that the economic rebound has spurred greater liquidity into real estate, the stock market is setting new heights and consumers are generally stepping out more for luxury goods and services. After many years of pulling back, it was fun to see guests flirting with temptation, whether that was a new home, a new car, a new look or just to learn more about the trends. Others were happy to take in all the action.

  Andrea Savage

  Fun, Real, Home

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• I cant stand those food cult people who bring their own food into the house. All those little thermoses and paper bags-it makes the other guests uncomfortable.

  Paul Lynde

  People, House, Bags

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• When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

  Pema Chodron

  Freedom, Doors, Inspire

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.183, Shambhala Publications

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• Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought, and several thousand gave their lives. We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Hero, Home, Knowing

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• Every Thanksgiving table should be blessed with the presence of a long-married pair who bring out the best in each other, are completely enamored despite their differences, and leave every other guest thinking, I’ll have what they’re having. Our holiday pies honor such so there’s a pleasant mix of textures and flavors in every bite. No matter how you slice partnerships, each spotlighting the perfect marriage of crust and filling these six irresistible desserts, there is a whole lot to love.

  Martha Stewart

  Blessed, Holiday, Thinking

  "Martha Stewart Openly Mocks Gwyneth Paltrow With ‘Conscious Coupling’ Story In Her Magazine" by Kristen Aiken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2014.

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• Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.

  Sterling W Sill

  Home, Thinking, Chinese

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• Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being trapped in a room for ten hours with those characters. Think of your main characters as dinner guests. Would your friends want to spend ten hours with the characters you’ve created? Your characters can be loveable, or they can be evil, but they’d better be compelling. If not, your reader will be bored and leave.

  Po Bronson

  Book, Reading, Character

  "Advice on Writing". www.pobronson.com.

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• It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Peace, Heart, May

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”

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• I believe what makes cooking in Las Vegas different from cooking in most other cities are the guests that dine with you in Las Vegas.

  Michael Mina

  Believe, Vegas, Cities

  "Michael Mina: Las Vegas Dining Isn’t About the 99-Cent Buffet Anymore". Interview with Anneli Rufus, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

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• An Albanian’s house is the dwelling of God and the guest.’ Of God and the guest, you see. So before it is the house of its master, it is the house of one’s guest. The guest, in an Albanian’s life, represents the supreme ethical category, more important than blood relations. One may pardon the man who spills the blood of one’s father or of one’s son, but never the blood of a guest.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Father, Son, Men

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• A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Home, House

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• Dreams are guests who ensoul our lives if we have hospitality for them.

  Jeannine Parvati Baker

  Dream, Hospitality, Our Lives

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• I feel like women are frequently seen as guests in the comedy world.

  Chelsea Peretti

  World, Comedy, Feels

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• I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered, rambling house, the feuding family, the rich suitor, the disruptive visitors. The novel has all of those delightful things, but it also defied every one of my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.

  Maile Meloy

  Party, Thinking, Giving

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• I get a handsome amount. I could definitely buy a car off one of my guest appearances. & I'm not talking about a Hyundai.

  Nicki Minaj

  Talking, Car, Handsome

  "Nicki Minaj's naughty gift for Lil Wayne". Details magazine interview, www.rap-up.com. April 19, 2010.

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• A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose total experience outdoors probably consists of two overnight hikes and a weekend in the Catskills. But we have just had that confrontation. The one who goes by Pritchard's book is Sid's wife, and I am wary. It is not my expedition. I am a guest here.

  Wallace Stegner

  Book, Weekend, Two

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• As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Courage, Dark

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• In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got some fun out of it, Shortly after I won the Prize, Gweneth and I received an invitation from the Brazilian government to be the guests of honor at the Carnaval celebrations in Rio.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fun, Pain, Government

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• The readers and the hearers like my books,
  And yet some writers cannot them digest;
  But what care I? for when I make a feast,
  I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

  John Harington

  Book, Criticism, Care

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• Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

  Theophile Gautier

  Welcome, Brevity, Fatigue

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• Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds? Chickens? You ate Mrs. Beale's chickens?Smoke whined apologetically.Saetan leaned back in his chair. Oh, it was so satisfying to see her thrown off stride. I'm sure Mrs. Beale was delighted to feed a guest - even if she wasn't aware of it, he added dryly, remembering too well his cook's reaction when she learned about the missing hens.

  Anne Bishop

  White, Expression, Missing

  Anne Bishop (2007). “Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2”, p.178, Penguin

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• Happiness don't ask to see who you be afore her sits down at your table. 'Er comes and sits with them as know how to welcome her and keep her the willing guest.

  Jean Plaidy

  Happiness, Tables, Welcome

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