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• My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.

  Nathan Kress

  War, Simple, Watches

  "Get To Know iCarly's Nathan Kress". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. February 2, 2012.

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• Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.

  Barbara Walters

  Cutting, Hands, Pieces

  "Barbara Walters stepping down from '20/20'". www.today.com. January 27, 2004.

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• You think you know how much you can love another person, and then you have a child and you realize you didn't know. It's infinitely rewarding.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Children, Thinking, Realizing

  YouTube Channel "TheEllenShow"/"Ashton Kutcher on His New Baby", www.youtube.com. December 13, 2014.

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• I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.

  Chadwick Boseman

  People, Giving, Waiting

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

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• A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside peoples minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting their patterns down so I know how to create the illusion that I get inside their brain.

  Criss Angel

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

  Miley Cyrus

  Song, Writing, Sleep

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• I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.

  Gary Busey

  Opportunity, Wife, Agents

  "Q+A: The Men of Celebrity Wife Swap". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 3, 2012.

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• I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

  Lena Olin

  Soul, Feelings, Use

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• A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.

  Irrfan Khan

  Needs, Talent, Knows

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• The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Red, Tiny, Intimidating

  "What intimidates Johnny and Vanessa?". www.express.co.uk. October 9, 2008.

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• I love Paranormal Activity and The Exorcist. The Shining is a great one too, but theres not a lot that scares me. Maybe its because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.

  Lucy Hale

  Shining, Scare, Sides

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• You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

  Colin Quinn

  Funny, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 18, 2003.

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• Meditation is not hard to understand. Anyone who knows how to worry knows how to meditate. Worriers are skilled in the meditation process but are meditating on the wrong kind of thoughts.

  Jim Berg

  Worry, Meditation, Kind

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• Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and it’s no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.

  Bill Konigsberg

  Mom, Rooms, Want

  Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.81, Scholastic Inc.

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• Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how God holds the kingdom in balance or why he moves a chess piece at a crucial time; we might never see the results of his sovereignty [...] I might just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm a part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Moving, Chess Pieces, Color

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.114, B&H Publishing Group

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• I don't know how many 78-year-olds are listening to 98 Degrees music.

  Drew Lachey

  Years, Listening, Degrees

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• A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

  Maaza Mengiste

  War, Thinking, Government

  Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.208, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?

  Kathy Calvin

  Girl, Children, Data

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• No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Judging, Anxiety

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• Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.

  Fanny Brice

  Love, Fun, Cards

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• I think writing comics is predicated on being a fan - there's no either/or. I'd argue I'm an even bigger fan now than when I started because I know how the hot dogs get made. And I kinda always saw the moving parts. I think I appreciate the good ones more now that I realize how lousy the production process can be, how hard it can be, and how easily something good can get crushed in its cogs.

  Matt Fraction

  Dog, Moving, Writing

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• I know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how it mounts on the winds through the clouds and flies through heaven. Today I have seen the Dragon.

  Confucius

  Running, Animal, Clouds

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• When Ma died, I didn't know how to go on, either. I don't know how. I don't feel the same know, not exactly. Now that I see that one day comes after another and you get through them one measure at a time. But I'd like to go, not like Fonda Nye, I don't want to die, I just want to go, away, out of the dust.

  Karen Hesse

  Dust, Going Away, One Day

  Karen Hesse (1997). “Out of the Dust”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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• My father and I, we can't soothe each other. I'm too young, he's too old, and we don't know how to talk anymore if we ever did

  Karen Hesse

  Father, Dust, Young

  Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.245, Scholastic Inc.

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• He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

  John Milton

  Flames, Gone, Fuel

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.217

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