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• She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.. It seemed so natural, to talk to him about odd things. She had never done that before. The trust, so sudden and yet so complete, and the intimacy, frightened her.. But now she could think only of all the things she yet wanted to tell him, wanted to do with him.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Thinking, Self, Skins

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• It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that."

  Norm MacDonald

  Sound, Hollywood, Actors

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done.

  Jenny Offill

  Mastery, Done, Certainty

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• But once in a while the odd thing happens
  Once in a while the dream comes true
  And the whole pattern of life is altered
  Once in a while, the moon turns blue

  W. H. Auden

  Dream, Moon, Blue

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• One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not “for good”; one thinks everything is a rehearsal - to be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.

  Sybille Bedford

  Thinking, One Day, Rehearsal

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• I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.

  Richard Bausch

  Writing, People, Doubt

  "Off the Page: Richard Bausch". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2003.

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• But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

  Parminder Nagra

  Soccer, Thinking, Television

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Civilization, Mind, Littles

  Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

  John Corbett

  Tired, Winning, Risk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Equality, Disagree, Universe

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• The-one of the odd things that's going on with smoking these days is that in the '90s, smoking at movies in the '90s, there were more movies showing smoking than there were in the '60s.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Smoking, Odd, These Days

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.

  Philip K. Dick

  Ideas, Twists, World

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Time Out of Joint”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The odd thing about tradition is, the longer it's been going, the more people seem to take it seriously - as though sheer passage of time makes something which to begin with was just made up, turns it into what people believe as a fact.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, People, Facts

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• -I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Trying, Odd, Invisible

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• No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Unique, Profound, Pills

  Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.869, Oxford University Press

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• Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.

  Patricia Briggs

  Time, Gone, Moments

  Patricia Briggs (2005). “Raven's Strike”, p.186, Penguin

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• Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get there at all. It'll happen when you're not looking for it. And don't talk too much about it even among yourselves. And don't mention it to anyone else unless you find that they've had adventures of the same sort themselves. What's that? How will you know? Oh, you'll know all right. Odd things, they say-even their looks-will let the secret out. Keep your eyes open. Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools." -The Profesor

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, School, Adventure

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• Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.

  Matt Damon

  Next Day, Yesterday, One Day

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• Sometimes people will bring up these odd things that I did a one-off from. Like, I did a 'Knight Rider,' and I'll get an E-mail from a 'Knight Rider' fan who says, 'Look what I did to my car!' And I don't know if you know about this, but there is a sub-cult of 'Knight Rider' fan who trick out their cars to look like KITT. I'm, like, 'Really? Isn't there anything else you can do? Do you make that much money? Because I have projects I'd like to get off the ground, so how about you don't make KITT and you give it to me?'

  Robbie Rist

  Knights, Giving, Car

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• It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.

  Ken Follett

  Moving, Want, Things To Do

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.408, Penguin

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• The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. "There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain," Matrim Cauthon whispered. "Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.

  Robert Jordan

  Eye, Hands, Disease

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• We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the creatures they imagine have no other being than the sounding syllables which the reader will speak into his own weary and distracted head. There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough.

  William H. Gass

  Liars, Mean, Wings

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• When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It couldn't wait to get going, but then, having gotten going, it seemed in very little hurry to move on.

  Bill Bryson

  Moving, Perspective, Waiting

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.308, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up?

  Jay Asher

  Giving Up, Sorry, Don't Give Up

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.253, Penguin

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• The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.

  David Small

  Dream, Matter, Surprise

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