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• I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.

  Johnny Depp

  Beautiful, Thinking, Guitar

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2014.

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• It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility.

  Bill Frisell

  Song, Littles, Kaleidoscope

  "'When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward'". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

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• You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.

  Steve Martin

  Two

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• That whole idea of threats to national security is a very interesting one. The phrase is very useful for the government to try to encompass the citizenry in the same box as the government is in. To say, "We're all in this together. It threatens all of us."

  Howard Zinn

  Government, Ideas, Interesting

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• I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.

  Mike Stud

  Witty, Song, College

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• When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my classroom. And with my own students, I refused to let them use the phrase "I like" or "I don't like" when we were engaged in a critique.

  Tim Gunn

  Teaching, Responsibility, Vocabulary

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• In marriage, if you're a guy, learn two phrases. One is "yes, dear" and the other is "honey, you're right." Be patient. Be good friends first. And stick together. You gotta work at it. It's not all a honeymoon, it's not all flowers and roses, but if you're friends and partners and committed, you'll be okay. And everybody's got advice for you - don't listen.

  Denzel Washington

  Flower, Good Friend, Two

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• It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not everybody is having a tough time, but you can bet your buck that there's a good tenth of your church that's going through a hard season. There really is a broken heart on every pew.

  Max Lucado

  Heart, Broken, Tough Times

  Source: www.biblestudytools.com

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• People who think there's no good way to die have obviously never heard the phrase 'Drug-fuelled-sex-heart-attack'.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Sex, Heart

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• At YC we have this public phrase, and it's relentlessly resourceful.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Resourceful

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• One of the phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new.

  Reid Hoffman

  Unique, Curves, Degrees

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• The social aspect of blogging is just as important as the content, so to borrow a phrase from the 1960s: the medium is the message. And my personal experience shows me that the potential of this medium is extra large.

  Mark Powell

  Important, Blogging, Messages

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, "Oh, that'd be a great [song] title! I'll use that!" So I keep a running list of titles on my computer. I've got these words and phrases that just sustained my interest. So I'm a step ahead, really, with the titling!

  Andy Summers

  Running, Song, Moving

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• When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a phrase that I like well enough to put it in a poem.

  James Arthur

  Dream, Writing, Wake Up

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.

  Pope Francis

  Kings, Honor, Use

  Address at the White House, delivered 23 September 2015, South Lawn of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mean, Pride, Unique

  "What Is the Sangha?: The Nature of Spritual Community" by Sangharakshita, (p. 136), 2001.

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• You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.

  Chris Carter

  Lying, Believe, Trust No One

  "Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz Interview - THE X-FILES: I Want to Believe". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

  Lord Byron

  Song, Owl, Midnight

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 14, st. 50

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• 'Haunted by the past' is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience. Even if one is not, strictly speaking, 'haunted', the past is perpetually with one in the present, and the longer it grows and the further it recedes the stronger its presence seems to become.

  Philip Roth

  Past, Stronger, Grows

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I love the phrase, 'Somebody's going to have a good day today, so it might as well be me.' I feel like you bring everything to the character, I hope.

  Josh Peck

  Character, Good Day, Might

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• There's a paraphrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else." I've been very lucky... before I start insulting the profession of directing, but I think a good director is everything and a bad director really is nothing at all.

  Colin Firth

  Thinking, Insulting, Directors

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.

  Jay-Z

  Everyday, Trying, Stories

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read.

  Sophie Calle

  Art, Wall, Writing

  Interview with Louise Neri, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 7, 2009.

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• There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.

  Don DeLillo

  Japan, Quality, Might

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.

  Donna Tartt

  Kids, College, Air

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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