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• I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.

  James Frey

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "James Frey: 'I always wanted to be the outlaw'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2011.

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• A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay.

  Marc Andreessen

  Mean, People, Pay

  "Ning will make all users pay" by Douglas MacMillan, www.sfgate.com. August 12, 2010.

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• Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

  Marc Andreessen

  Technology, Media, Water

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• Americans believe if you go to college, you have something to fall back on, which makes sense. I don't have any degrees. If I hadn't become a golfer, I have no idea what I would be doing with my life.

  Stuart Appleby

  Believe, Fall, College

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?

  James A. Baldwin

  Life, Thinking, Happens

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• Training is vital. You need to know the technical aspects of acting, just in case someone hands you a monologue and simply says, 'Cry here and laugh here.' You have to be able to make sense of it all.

  Kali Hawk

  Hands, Laughing, Training

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• A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Character, Doors, Needs

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• There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to try and apply it nationally doesn't make sense. There are technologies that will work that are appropriate to certain regions.

  Vinod Khosla

  Country, Technology, Wind

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• There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.

  Adam Levine

  Married, Getting Married

  "Inside Adam Levine's Private Life". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. November 10, 2011.

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• If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

  Olivier Martinez

  Doe, Want, Ifs

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• People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

  Jeremy Northam

  Children, Kids, People

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• I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.

  Jimmy Nail

  Trying, Process, Decent

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• Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Writing, World, Way

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• Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot busier and I was traveling a lot and it wasn't making sense. Especially at a private school, you miss two days, and you get so behind.

  Stacie Orrico

  School, Two, Missing

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• I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

  Jet Li

  Art, Thinking, Years

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

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• My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can make sense of and for the heart of the characters, who span a wide range of ages. I reread it every year.

  Ridley Pearson

  Character, Heart, Issues

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• I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.

  Molly Parker

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  "Good golly Miss Molly", www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2001.

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• Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Jobs, Loss, Poet

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• We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?

  Phylicia Rashad

  People, Doe, Dollars

  "Phylicia Rashad Talks Good Deeds and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.

  Anna Sui

  Art, Together, Ends

  Interview with Lisa Marie Presley, www.fanpop.com.

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• You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

  Imelda Staunton

  Character, Interesting, Doe

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• The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mean, Writing, Fire

  "Why Write?" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. October 15, 2007.

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• I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

  George Voinovich

  Country, Views, People

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• As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.

  Amy Waldman

  Reality, Confusion, Add

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• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  Mae Whitman

  Book, School, Wrinkles

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

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