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• Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.

  Michael Gove

  Home, Heart, Mean

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• My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when. I never learned or studied the craft, formally. I grew up doing martial arts and playing piano. But, something inside of me always said that I was going to do this, as far back as I can remember.

  Laz Alonso

  Art, Piano, Crafts

  "Laz Alonso talks James Cameron's AVATAR - Could it be the first of a Trilogy?". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 5, 2009.

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• Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.

  Bill Bixby

  World, Want, Way

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• Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

  Bob Barr

  Beautiful, Country, Gun

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• I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

  Colin Baker

  Doctors, Facts, Kind

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• I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  People, Talent, Relentless

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• I've always known my own mind, and I'm not shy about speaking it.

  Katy B

  Mind, Shy, My Own

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• Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day - some sweet day.

  John L. Bates

  Sweet, Thrones, Truth Is

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• I feel like I want to be known first and foremost for my work.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Want, Firsts, Feels

  Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com.

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• I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.

  Kid Cudi

  Hip Hop, Cleveland, Hips

  "Kid Cudi: 'I've always been ahead of the curve'" by Archna Sawjani, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

  Beverly Cleary

  Childhood

  "Beverly Cleary at 95: A Talk With the Author Who Created Ramona Quimby". Interview with Rachel Brown, www.theatlantic.com. July 6, 2011.

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• Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

  David Amram

  Black And White, Portraits, Village

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• I have known some wonderful men.

  Gloria Allred

  Men, Wonderful, Wonderful Man

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• It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Names, America, Odd

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• Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I don't believe in God, I don't believe in the supernatural, I don't believe in anything! And I'm terribly cynical, and somehow or other, all three of my films and much of my television work has been rather sentimental, and 'heartwarming'.

  Nigel Cole

  Believe, Cynical, Television

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• My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.

  Elliott Carter

  War, Important, World

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• Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions.

  Georges Cuvier

  Animal, People, Three

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• The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.

  Howard Coble

  Long, Done, Coast

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• Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own.

  Malaclypse the Younger

  Games, Followers, Way

  Malaclypse The Younger (2013). “Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger”, p.79, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

  Peter Cushing

  Years, Twenties, Roles

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• George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.

  Ray Comfort

  Quiet People, Thinker, People

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• I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful.

  Tom Conti

  Father, Wonderful, Nina

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• Music videos are notoriously long, not fun, grueling. You are known there as a dancer and it's kind of sad because dancers, in a lot of ways, are under-appreciated and kind of under-respected when it come to that so they don't necessarily treat you in a nice way when you do a music video.

  Jenna Dewan

  Fun, Nice, Long

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

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• I know who I am as an artist. I've always known who I am as an artist.

  Lee DeWyze

  Artist, Who I Am, Knows

  "Lee DeWyze on new album, new 'Idol'". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. December 7, 2010.

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• My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

  Alexander Downer

  Father, Names, House

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

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