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• There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

  John Krasinski

  Emotional, Long, Laughing

  "How John Krasinski's Own Family Stories Made His New Film More Personal For Him". Interview with Shannon Vestal Robson, www.popsugar.com. August 28, 2016.

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• I take out little moments of silence before or after they sing, because I just love those weird pauses.

  Ryan Hemsworth

  Silence, Littles, Moments

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though, it's very hard to read.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Talking, Together, Flow

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me."

  Cary Fukunaga

  Teacher, Growing Up, Names

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When you say: The simple truth is this, and then you pause, and then you finish the sentence, people stop, and they think specifically about what you're saying. And it's, in essence, trying to boil it down to something that's very understandable and meaningful.

  Frank Luntz

  Meaningful, Simple, Thinking

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• We had had mass immigration from the late 1800s all the way through the early 1900s to the 1920s, and we had to pause the immigration in order to for the new arrivals to assimilate, to become Americans, to learn English, for one thing. The one thing - or not the one; there are many different things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Order, Immigration, Different

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We have two choices when things pile up at work or we're surrounded by energy vampires who leave us feeling depleted. We can get frantic, hyperventilate, shut down, and become reactive. Needless to say, these responses to stress just make us more stressed. Surrendered people have the ability to pause, take a deep breath, and observe.

  Judith Orloff

  Stress, Two, People

  "7 Habits Of Surrendered People". omtimes.com. April 06, 2014.

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• Supreme Court nominations are an occasion to pause and reflect on the values that make our nation strong, just and fair. And we must determine whether a nominee has a demonstrated commitment to those basic values.

  Edward Kennedy

  Strong, Commitment, Nominations

  "Kennedy's Opening Statement", www.nytimes.com. January 9, 2006.

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• I've been called a "baby killer" and I've been told I should die and that I'm ruining women's lives. Those accusations hurt for sure - and I pause when such labels are applied to me - but because they come from people I don't necessarily respect, I have an easier time moving beyond them.

  Amy Richards

  Baby, Hurt, Moving

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• There is this expectation that as January 1st dawns, we're going to do it differently. Moreover, there's this kind of pressure, that even if I've been trying to be different for a while, January 1st, from here on in - I have to be different. There's a cultural expectation, there's a personal expectation. I think it's worth just taking pause for a minute and talking about that.

  Rod Stryker

  Thinking, Talking, Expectations

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• I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and pauses. That white space on the page is as important as the black. The bottom of the page is blackout. It's performance.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, White, Space

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• I confessed to Mike [Cimino] a couple of days before we shot. I was like, "What am I doing here, Mike?" And Mike just looked at me, in that very directorial manor, took a long pause, and he said, "You know the game tag?" And I said, "Yeah." And he said, "Well, you're it." That was some of the best direction I think I've ever received.

  Jeff Bridges

  Couple, Thinking, Games

  "Jeff Bridges talks to us about his gripping new movie and why he wants to play The Dude again". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. August 8, 2016..

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• I felt as a human being I needed to take a pause and reflect on a lot of stuff that's happened. That was really good for me. And to get some of the ringing out of my years from all the amps on stage.

  Kenny Chesney

  Years, Stuff, Stage

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Fighting, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.279, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I like the pause that tea allows

  Waris Ahluwalia

  Tea

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• We all find ourselves involved in projects or activities that confound us-when or why did I say I would do this? What was I thinking? I needed a poem for myself that said-pause longer. Think again.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Thinking, Projects, Said

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• Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

  Horace

  Death, Dark, Needs

  Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky is dull and a bequest of March - wind lingers, chasing the squirrel from the tree and the children from the meadows. There is a fascination in walking through these bare early woods, – there is such a pause of preparation, winter's work is so cleanly and thoroughly done. Everything is taken down and put away.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Summer, Spring, Taken

  "The Procession of the Flowers: And Kindred Papers".

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• Nothing that is can pause or stay.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Change

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.956, Delphi Classics

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• Tender pauses speak
  The overflow of gladness,
  When words are all too weak.

  William C. Bryant

  Speak, Weak, Overflow

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• Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Buttons, Tape

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2016

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• Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Stranger, Retiring

  'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' (1870) ch. 4

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• John Howard Davies was not a very human person ... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

  Graham Chapman

  Mistake, Speech, Kind

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

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• Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness,
  Dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief,
  Nor spring deny their bright, appointed beauty
  To lotus blossom and ashoka leaf.
  
  Nay, do not pine, tho' life be dark with trouble,
  Time will not pause or tarry on his way;
  To-day that seems so long, so strange, so bitter,
  Will soon be some forgotten yesterday.
  
  Nay, do not weep; new hopes, new dreams, new faces,
  The unspent joy of all the unborn years,
  Will prove your heart a traitor to its sorrow,
  And make your eyes unfaithful to their tears.

  Sarojini Naidu

  Life, Dream, Spring

  Sarojini Naidu (1916). “The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring”

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• Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, Giving, Political

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