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• What makes it frustrating is when a director or a studio head doesn't see me for the same part that they'll see, let's say, Drew Barrymore for. Drew's a great friend of mine. But it's like, "No, we want more of an American type of girl."

  Eva Mendes

  Girl, Directors, Want

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.

  James Frey

  Ambition, Two, Trying

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. February 5, 2015.

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• I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.

  Marge Piercy

  Past, Thinking, People

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

  Marge Piercy

  Reading, Cat, Body

  Source: margepiercy.com

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• I'm not so arrogant to consider mine the only legitimate art form. I can't in one breath make a fuss about someone compartmentalizing music into genre and then in the next accuse advertising and short film of not being art.

  Brandi Carlile

  Art, Arrogant, Next

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be‘". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• I wish someone had told me that my stories are really mine to tell. In other words, anything that I think is important or that has moved me has the ability to move somebody else.

  Rita Dove

  Moving, Thinking, Wish

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• Alberto Alessi had asked a dozen architects to design a sterling silver tea service - with a teapot, a coffee pot, sugar, creamer, a spoon, and a tray. Our brief was that it didn't matter if it didn't work and cost wasn't the issue. It was a promotional project, not a commercial enterprise, and was going to be showcased in museums. And the coffee and tea piazza, as mine was called, received a great response. It was wonderful to walk into the Whitney museum and see all these objects on the first floor.

  Michael Graves

  Coffee, Issues, Museums

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• Each and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces... And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, "Mine, mine." May we be Christ's!

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Journey, Two, May

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• It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.

  Paul Auster

  House, Pockets, Habit

  Paul Auster (2011). “Collected Prose”, p.437, Faber & Faber

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• In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.

  George W. Norris

  Country, Order, Sea

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• Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

  John Muir

  Heaven, Mountain, Jordan

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.86, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.

  Gautama Buddha

  Loss, Thinking, Doe

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• A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.

  Carl Jung

  Book, Writing, Fate

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Answers, Goes On, Authority

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• If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.

  Ayn Rand

  Song, Believe, Individualism

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• All property is theft, except mine.

  Terry Pratchett

  Theft, Property

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.418, Random House

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• If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I should suppress it with a blush; and I should do the same if I ever found I were imitating myself. Every poem should be new, unexpected, inimitable, and incapable of being parodied.

  Robert Graves

  Unexpected, Should, Found

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• I don't think of an actor. I think in the character, and then I search for the actor. Usually I'm thinking without names, because they will change my idea. No big egos. If I want egos - just mine. That is enough.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Character, Thinking, Names

  "Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Prophetic Vision". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry. In my eighth grade slideshow, when everyone was like "show us what you want to be," everyone [said] doctor, lawyer, [but] mine literally said rapper. I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a superstar, I wanted to be on stage, I wanted to perform, I wanted to be in movies. But as you grow up, those dreams kind of fade away.

  Lilly Singh

  Dream, Growing Up, Rapper

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Suits, Great Men, Form

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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• I don't think I would worry about an oversaturation of information if it was indeed information. It is the slovenly, hasty traffic in cliché and sensationalism and bad reasoning that bothers me. I love finding arcane primary texts on the web. The people who think to put them up are heroes of mine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Hero, Thinking, People

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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• Mistakes are expensive. Mistakes are good, because we can learn from them. I must be a slow learner because I repeat most of mine.

  Linda Greenlaw

  Mistake, Learners, Repeats

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• I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain; it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pain, Alcohol, Purpose

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• Sensitive husbands don't like second billing. I don't believe Franchot ever for a moment resented the fact that I was a star. Possibly he resented Hollywood's refusal to let him forget it. There was never a doubt in my mind that his talent was greater than mine.

  Joan Crawford

  Stars, Husband, Believe

  Joan Crawford (2017). “A Portrait of Joan: The Autobiography of Joan Crawford”, p.160, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• It was a mistake of mine to tell the lads that this lot don't score too many goals - and statistically they don't - but then they go and score seven.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Mistake, Goal, Seven

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