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• I started getting fan notes from people saying, "Oh, keep up the mess-ups," and I'm thinking, "I'm not doing it deliberately. This is just who I am." But people thought it was funny. I guess if you're watching and you see that I could do it, maybe it gives hope that anybody can do it.

  Jancee Dunn

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't know if make a conscious effort to vary the characters and subjects that I write about, but I do find myself keeping track of ideas that come along, as probably most writers do, and whatever seems most interesting to me when I flip through my notes before I begin a new story is usually what I will try to write about next.

  Christine Sneed

  Writing, Character, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I keep a couple of notebooks too into which I record ideas for story titles or characters or situations, and these notes help me quite a bit when I'm feeling at loose ends and not sure of what to work on next.

  Christine Sneed

  Notebook, Couple, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think whenever you're around Kanye [West], you gotta take notes. The advice is taking notes, because everything he does and everything he says is very detailed and very up front. He's always one hundred what he says.

  Tyga

  Thinking, Advice, Doe

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• We all use cash in our everyday life, but we don't use hundred-dollar bills. We're not using 500-euro notes. And yet these account for mountains of cash out there. I think they're being used in tax evasion and by criminals of all types.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Thinking, Everyday, Mountain

  "'The Curse Of Cash' Makes Case For A World Without Paper Money". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2016.

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• I think of every song like a game. It's like a video game: "Okay, I'm going to hop over here and if I press this drum, or if I hit this note, then that doorway opens. Oops, I fell down a trap door but I'm in a whole new world."

  Guillermo E. Brown

  Song, Thinking, Doors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with major contingencies. Right now we only have 23.

  Donald Trump

  Marine, Foundation, Heritage

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I listen to [customers] and we make adjustments because we pretty much average a collection every six weeks. We're constantly taking everything in and taking notes.

  Eva Mendes

  Average, Six, Week

  Source: wwd.com

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• I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.

  Conrad Aiken

  Play, Two, Piano

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• I remember seeing this image of these women wearing these bright clothes and patterns, and it struck me. I remember taking note and going, like, "What is that? Who is that?" and finding out it was Gucci and being surprised.

  Jared Leto

  Clothes, Patterns, Remember

  "Jared Leto Talks Rebel Style, Gucci's Alessandro Michele, and Why He Hates Shopping". Interview with Megan Gustashaw, www.gq.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one's own life.

  Alicia Markova

  Dance, Moving, Fall

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• Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a textbook, and that unwillingness to learn from Authority that comes from making almost verbatim lecture notes and handing them back to the professor.

  Anthony Standen

  Learning, Humility, Science

  Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

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• Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn.

  Mike Norton

  Fear, Students, This Life

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• Your mission is to document and observe the world around you as if you’ve never seen it before.  Take notes.  Collect things you find on your travels.  Document your findings.  Notice patterns.  Copy.  Trace.  Focus on one thing at a time.  Record what you are drawn to.

  Keri Smith

  Focus, Records, World

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• Sometimes I'll open my voice to sing and I'll think, "I hope I hit the right notes." I do music for a living and I still feel like that, but it's good because it keeps me humble, it keeps my feet grounded, it keeps me trusting in God.

  Dominic Balli

  Humble, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

  Ted Nelson

  Horse, Office, Paper

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• And on a completely different note I will NOT in fact be sharing my bra size, that was a very sleepy tweet last night but I ain`t no an A cup.

  Meghan McCain

  Night, Cups, Facts

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• I just chuck a bunch of words down and whether they find themselves into a song... I have lots of weird notes on my phone. I often come up with a phrase that I really like, I write it down and it stays in my notes folder, and when I'm writing I will scroll through and see if it kind of fits and if I can mould a verse around it.

  Thomston

  Song, Writing, Phones

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• Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.

  Jillian Hervey

  Mom, Teacher, Piano

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I knew [Eva Braun] wrote to [Adolf Hitler], I would see her writing to him and I would see her reading his notes or letters. She kept all that in a safe at the Berghof and nobody got near that safe except Hitler or Eva.

  Gretl Braun

  Reading, Writing, Letters

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• I take note of the fact that there are a lot of people who appreciate what I do as parliament president, not just within my Social Democratic party group, but also among the conservatives.

  Martin Schulz

  Party, People, Appreciate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• On a personal note, a legacy he left me, aside from being a friend who was important to me on many levels, was that the decades I knew Sam [Fuller] happened to be the decades that were his least happy professionally.

  Curtis Hanson

  Important, Legacy, Levels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I send thank you notes, not emails, even if I'm staying at a friend's house or something. I'm very old school.

  Margot Robbie

  School, House, Email

  "Margot Robbie Is Fascinated by Dating Apps". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. September 19, 2016.

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• The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Office, Calendars

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• Part of my reaction to my diagnosis of infertility was deeply sarcastic and critical, part of it was morbid, part of it was numb, part of it was neurotic and desperate. To mush all of those notes together would cancel them out. I ended up just trying to keep them as separate as possible.

  Monica Youn

  Sarcastic, Together, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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