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• I kind of do high-low style a lot.

  Joy Bryant

  Style, Kind

  "Joy Bryant Talks SXSW, Spring Outfits, and Samantha Ronson" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. March 16, 2013.

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• I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle anything!

  Adrienne Barbeau

  Years, Done, Avocados

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• It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more.

  Alfred Bester

  Real, Levels, Obvious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

  Julie Bowen

  Self Esteem, Suffering, Disease

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• I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Narcissistic

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• My style when I was 17 was very low-key with jeans, T-shirts, and Converse. I was signed to a major record label by then, so I had stylists helping me.

  Michelle Branch

  Keys, Jeans, Style

  "Michelle Branch". www.seventeen.com. October 13, 2009.

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• The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.

  Spencer Bachus

  Jobs, Construction Industry, Growth

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• Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Girl, Eight, Years

  "Girl Scouts Changed the World 100 Years Ago - Now it's Our Turn" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.

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• In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

  Jemaine Clement

  Real, Keys, Sick

  "Jemaine Clement: 'I was in a public park replicating gay porn pics in my underpants'". Interview Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.

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• Our kids are in a little band, and they like to play video games, and my wife and I do our best to live a low-key, non-Hollywood kind of life.

  Justin Chambers

  Kids, Keys, Games

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

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• I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  People, Giving, Maintenance

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• It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.

  Francis Crick

  Numbers, Nonsense, Triplet

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• After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy.

  Howie Carr

  Years, Numbers, Borders

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• Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized.

  John Corbett

  Looks, Done, Kind

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• It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

  Jon Corzine

  Years, Minimum Wage, Levels

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• These were the moments when I was disappointed and frustrated, when I got so low because it seemed all my hard work had been wasted. But the moments passed, and the motivation to go back to rehab was there again.

  Kim Clijsters

  Motivation, Hard Work, Frustrated

  "Kim Clijsters: 'Me and Dad had this thing about the number one'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2012.

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• The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.

  Laurel Clark

  Space, Different, Process

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• When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

  Roger Corman

  Matter, Today, Film

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• To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

  Tucker Carlson

  Men, Tragic

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• Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough.

  Arne Duncan

  Teaching, Thinking, Long

  "Teacher Pay Study Asks the Wrong Question, Ignores Facts, Insults Teachers" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2011.

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• Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Simple, Keys, Film

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• In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.

  Griffin Dunne

  Independent, Community, Amy

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.

  Nick Denton

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Search And Destroy" by Ben McGrath, www.newyorker.com. October 18, 2010.

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• It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.

  Melanie Fiona

  Nice, Keys, Stills

  "Melanie Fiona makes her bid for the big time". Interview with Tony Wong, www.thestar.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.

  Joshua Ferris

  Book, Expectations, I Liked You

  "Joshua Ferris Interview: Rock Star in the Book Store". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.

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