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• I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.

  Paul Auster

  Winter, Wanted, I Realized

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the audience the chance to fill the silence with empty babbling but to help create more depth to the conversation.

  Renita J. Weems

  Giving, Silence, Depth

  Renita J. Weems (2000). “Listening For God: A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.

  Julia Cameron

  Self, Expression, Needs

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.132, Penguin

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• When Jesus says, 'Take, eat. This is my body that was broken for you,' He says, I want my body in you. (Pause. . . shouts and claps) I want my blood in you. And every time you celebrate this rite, it is a reminder that you belong to me, and I belong to you. And he said, 'I will drink no more wine until I drink it new with you and the kingdom of God. Communion is the most romantic ordinance. Eh, Eh, Eh. (He laughs. Pause. . . the audience shouts and claps.) It is the most romantic ordinance between two lovers.

  T. D. Jakes

  Jesus, Wine, Blood

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• ...she's leaving now. ... Janis attacks the back door of the school gym and finds herself in a heavy cloud of smoke. She realizes she's found the Goths' hangout. Who knew? "Oof," someone says. She keeps walking, muttering, "sorry" to whomever it was she hit with the flying door. *** Cabel: ... That was the Goth stage where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention the hairstyle. (pause) But then she slammed a door handle into my gut. And, when a girl does that to a boy, it means she likes him.

  Lisa McMann

  Girl, Dream, Sorry

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• People have accused me at times of having too big of a heart.But I have to also to say I must keep the people of my state safe. So we take a pause [in taking refugees].

  John Kasich

  Heart, People, Safe

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.

  Richard Selzer

  Giving, Tasks, Emotion

  Richard Selzer (1996). “Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Pause and remember - Slow and steady will get you where you want to go. If you put too much pressure on yourself for results too quickly, you will quickly give up.

  Jennifer Young

  Giving Up, Want, Too Much

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• You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.

  Rachel McAdams

  Eye, Thinking, Flying

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• Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!

  Rudolph A. Marcus

  Would Be, Littles, Easier

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• The sari's radiance, vigor and variety, produced by a single straight length of cloth, should give us in the West pause and make us think twice about the zipper, the dart and the shoulder pad.

  Naveen Patnaik

  Thinking, Zippers, Giving

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• Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

  Mary Webb

  Nature, Silence, Music Is

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• So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through your whole life, making the mechanical motions of living, adopting as your own sets of ideas you've come to any conslusion for yourself as to what life is all about.

  Catherine Marshall

  Ideas, Issues, Long

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• The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story.

  K. M. Soehnlein

  Sex, Fiction, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

  Al Pacino

  Wish, Weakness, Euthanasia

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• Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

  Rollo May

  Wish, Weight, Capacity

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.100, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

  Diane Lane

  Nice, Teaching, Home

  Marie Claire Interview, www.marieclaire.co.uk. October 14, 2008.

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• The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

  David Remnick

  Beautiful, Jobs, Crazy

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• Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Media, Space

  "Passover’s Freedom Is Control Over Time" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

  Richard Schickel

  Years, Law, Perspective

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Writing, Expression

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

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• I'm very tech-forward. However, I also think hitting the pause button is not a bad thing, and really connecting with people one-to-one viscerally, having a connection with someone, is really important.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, People, Important

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• To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

  Charles Stanley

  Prayer, Heart, People

  Charles F. Stanley “How to Listen to God”, Harper Collins

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• Pause before you get home and prepare your heart. A peaceful heart leads to a peaceful atmosphere.

  Jim Burns

  Home, Heart, Peaceful

  Jim Burns, Doug Fields (2014). “Getting Ready for Marriage: A Practical Road Map for Your Journey Together”, p.92, David C Cook

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• Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Needs, Sometimes, Presses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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