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• I'm not a things person. I'm not one to keep much. I do have a small collection of picks from favorite musicians I got to play with, a collection of mementos. I'm kind of the opposite of a hoarder, as I try to get rid of everything.

  Chris Wyse

  Opposites, Play, Trying

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• Kids pick up and absorb a lot more than you think they do. I try to do what I think is right, and I try to lead by example.

  Mark Martin

  Kids, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

  Jack Kirby

  School, Rainy Day, One Day

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go dutifully from one page to the next, in consecutive order; no, I pick out a bit here and a bit there, till I have filled all the gaps on paper. This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Order, Three

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• We all use texting as a crutch because it's so easy and it doesn't really stop our day for the most part but I think to assure a woman you want to go out, to see that you're serious, you take the extra effort to pick up the phone and make a phone call.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Thinking, Phones, Effort

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• Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, Topics

  "Saint Anything: book launch + Sarah Dessen interview + giveaway!". Interview with Wendy Darling, www.themidnightgarden.net. May 8, 2015.

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• I write titles that are confrontational. I write titles that make people want to pick up a book and find out more about it. I write good books; I write great titles though.

  Larry Winget

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• I think if I pick the right thing to spend my time doing, then time moves differently, because I really can get fully immersed in things and feel very alive and challenged, but in a good way. I feel a sense of progress.

  Demetri Martin

  Moving, Thinking, Progress

  Source: maximumfun.org

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• Airplanes are like women - pick what you like and try to get it away from the guy who has it, then dress it out to the limit of your wallet and taste.

  Stephen Coonts

  Airplane, Guy, Trying

  Stephen Coonts (2010). “The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All these thoughts run around in my head, between my ears when I'm waking up. It's not a dream state, but it's not completely awake either. So all these metaphors run around and then I pick one and I get out of bed and I do it. I'm very lucky.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Dream, Morning

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• Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Singing, Together

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

  Keanu Reeves

  Who We Are, Moments, Certain

  "Q&A: Keanu Reeves on Making His First Movie, Man of Tai Chi". Interview with Calum Marsh, www.esquire.com. September 13, 2012.

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• I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film critic. Most of my bone is I would be a better film critic than most of the film critics I read.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Film Critics, Would Be, Facts

  "Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm not George Clooney, so I can't just pick and choose. I take roles where they occur.

  Daniel Gillies

  Roles, I Can

  Source: collider.com

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• I would never say no to anything that sounded interesting! The thing I like about making films is that the adventure just begins when you pick up the camera.

  D. A. Pennebaker

  Adventure, Interesting, Cameras

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I pick my feature film battles very carefully. They're going to be personal and they're going to take a lot of my energy. I'm not going to be some big production company and be Jerry Bruckheimer or something like that. It doesn't interest me.

  James Cameron

  Battle, Energy, Film

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• I'm very free with my sexuality, but not everywhere all the time. I pick and choose when I do nudity, and who I do it for when I'm working, and when I'm doing it. I've done nudity twice in a film.

  Eva Mendes

  Done, Film, Nudity

  Interview with Vicki Hogarth, uk.askmen.com.

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• As far as looking at myself on screen, I tend to pick out every single flaw that I could have or should have done better. I'm more of a cringer at first and when it is years down the road and out of my way, I can actually appreciate it somehow.

  Zac Efron

  Should Have, Years, Appreciate

  "Interview: Zac Efron and Charlie Tahan from ‘Charlie St. Cloud’". Interview with Jeanette Nguyen, www.fanbolt.com. July 30, 2010.

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• I don't read the Bible. Not because I don't want to, I just haven't got around to It yet. One day perhaps I'll pick it up and look at It.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  One Day, Looks, Want

  Source: jontrott.com

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• Probably over half of America does not have a passport. If young people could spend two weeks of their life in India or pick an African country to go to for 2-3 weeks and really see how life can be. That might be a real good thing because I think they would see things even if the trip was a nightmare. I think they might understand more of the mechanics of the world.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• Hitting the ball has never been my issue, so I can literally not pick up a racquet for two months and hit the ball, really, really nicely. I mean movement's always an issue.

  Andre Agassi

  Mean, Two, Issues

  "Why Does America Suck at Tennis?". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. August 29, 2011.

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• You only have to pick up a paper to see the sort of scams and injustices that are out there. There's a sense that people don't belong and just aren't very happy. They're outraged, in fact, and they're being shafted left, right and centre.

  Sean Bean

  People, Scams, Paper

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything's settled, you can see more.

  Kevin Gates

  Night, Unhappy, Energy

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• I only pick one thing; North, South, East or West. I just get on the road and go. That's the point. The only governor I give myself is what's the time limit.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Giving, East, Limits

  Source: pursuitist.com

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• There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do.

  Wes Craven

  Art, Thinking, Europe

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