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• I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.

  Gloria Steinem

  Pimp, Free Will, Mets

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• The script is like music to me. I approach it like it's a musical piece and I hear how it's supposed to sound when people say the words. There's rhythms and there's intonations and things, and so, when somebody comes in and hits the notes that I hear, I go okay. Or, they come close enough, and then I'll say "Well how about you try it like this?" and if they have a good ear and they can pick it up, then I think okay, they've got it.

  Rob Reiner

  Thinking, People, Musical

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free trade, you had one or the other, you should always pick technological progress. I think it's an incredibly important variable for creating more prosperity.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, Creating, Choices

  Interviewed with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away.

  Janet Jackson

  Issues, Advice, Trying

  "Tyler Perry, Jill Scott, and Janet Jackson Wonder Why Did I Get Married?". Press conference, movieweb.com. October 9, 2007.

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• I think the biggest advice I can offer is don't just pick one story and stop, write as much as you can, as many stories as you can. The best thing about being a writer is, a writer's craft is nearly perfect because a writer can go anywhere and do his craft.

  Dwayne McDuffie

  Writing, Thinking, Perfect

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I think it takes a lot of courage to be able to direct a film. If you have that courage and that vision together, and you pick the cast that you believe will achieve your vision, you win.

  Nate Parker

  Believe, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Mom, Children

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• Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

  Herman Melville

  Character, Towns, Novelists

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.3049, Delphi Classics

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• All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

  Herman Melville

  Beautiful, Lying, Reality

  Herman Melville (2015). “Pierre or The Ambiguities: Works of Melville”, p.214, 谷月社

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• To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.

  Mason Cooley

  Past, Wind, Tripping

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• I'm not a mean player. You'll notice I never pick on a player who has a number above 30.

  Mike Ditka

  Mean, Player, Numbers

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• We're headed for collapse, if you want my opinion, Missy. I can see it in the fallin' off of the quality of vagrants. There was atime you could find real good company in almost any jungle you'd pick, men who could talk, men who'd read a book now and then; and now, what do you find, a lot of dirty little guttersnipes no decent tramp would want to associate with.
  Well, it's been that way all through history.

  John Dos Passos

  Real, Dirty, Book

  John Dos Passos (1934). “Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights”

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• Give me a thrill, says the reader,
  Give me a kick;
  I don't care how you succeed, or
  What subject you pick.

  Philip Larkin

  Reading, Giving, Thrill

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.153, Faber & Faber

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• I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.

  Shelley Winters

  Party, Jockeys, Want

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• I'm for a high libido president! I applaud him if he gets up and picks up women.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Feminism, President

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• To shut the door at the end of the workday, which does not spill over into evening. To throw away books after reading them so theydon't have to be dusted. To go through boxes on New Year's Eve and throw out half of what is inside. Sometimes for extravagance to pick a bunch of flowers for the one table. Other women besides me must have this daydream about a carefree life.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  New Year, Work, Reading

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• oh mothers you will have made the little tykes
  so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies
  they won't know the difference
  and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy

  Frank O'Hara

  Movie, Mother, Differences

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• People aren't problems to be fixed. People are people, for us to walk alongside and journey with and help pick up the pieces with and, when they drop them again, to get back down and help them pick them up again. And that's real love - without condition and without expectation.

  Brooke Fraser

  Real, Journey, People

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• I'm a very intermediate sax player, but now that Rob Lowe is on my show, I had to cop to him. Like, 'Dude your ridiculous fake sax playing [in St. Elmo's Fire] inspired me to pick up a horn.'

  Nick Offerman

  Player, Fire, Fake

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• You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.

  Paul Mooney

  Past, Reality, Deals

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.

  Robert Plant

  Singing, Phrases, Done

  "New Again: Robert Plant". Interview With Emily McDermott, Mark Ginsburg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 12, 2013.

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• We, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.

  Brad Pitt

  America, Perception, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

  Christopher Reeve

  Fighting, Bones, Mainstream

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and choose what to use to construct a really interesting novel. I don't let facts get in the way of my imagination and my exploration of the subject's emotions and relationships.

  Melanie Benjamin

  Imagination, Interesting, Fiction

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• You realize how much the relationship when kids are young can suffer. And it's important to make sure that you are able to spend some time with each other. As a father, the best thing you can do for the kid is to love the mom. Even as a parent, I believe that loving the mother is the most important thing. And even parents who maybe aren't together I think that's important for them as well to respect each other and to be kind to each other, because I think it does so much in who they would pick to be around, or how they feel about themselves.

  Vince Vaughn

  Mom, Mother, Father

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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