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• Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.

  Alison McGhee

  Giving, Trying, Convinced

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by performing. I have terrible stage fright, and I don't like being in front of people.

  Chris Elliott

  Class, People, Clown

  "Chris Elliott's unusual career". The Washington Times Interview, www.washingtontimes.com. February 15, 2000.

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• I was reluctant to talk about my kids on the blog. I kept telling myself, "People aren't coming here for stories about your kids. They want to hear about the upcoming books, writing advice, conventions..."

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Writing, Kids

  "Of Beards and Books: An Interview with Patrick Rothfuss". Interview with Nikki Steele, bookriot.com. November 17, 2015.

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• I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Thinking, Race, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I was quite reluctant in the first instance to come to use the word bisexual with regard to myself because I didn't feel any different inside from the way I had always felt. I always found men attractive. I still find men attractive. I figure out of, you know, every 200 men that pass on the street, I'm going to go, 100 of those are nice looking guys. Now, with every 200 women that pass on the street, maybe one is going to turn my head.

  Tom Robinson

  Nice, Bisexual, Men

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• I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.

  Bill Hader

  Writing, Actors, Want

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Ted Cruz who`s been gaining on [Donald] Trump in Iowa and is polling ahead of him in the latest Monmouth poll would be quite reluctant to criticize Trump`s plan saying simply it is not his policy.

  Chris Hayes

  Iowa, Would Be, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.

  Tony Abbott

  Peace, People, Months

  "Tony Abbott announces 300 more Australian troops to be sent to Iraq". PM with Peta Donald, www.abc.net.au. March 3, 2015.

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• It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being, did their work in their own way, and carried a reluctant, stupid humanity to greater
  possibilities and grander heights.

  Clarence Darrow

  Stupid, Judging, Humanity

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence.

  Corra May Harris

  Wings, Vocabulary, People

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• The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.

  Thomas Sowell

  Leadership, Opportunity, Government

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.316, Hoover Press

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• most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.

  Alice Rivlin

  Doctors, Body, Economics

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• I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other people, I feel diffident, reluctant as it were to expose my world of imagination to possibly contemptuous eyes and ears.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Grateful, Eye, People

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.366, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Age, Affection

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• People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

  Mason Cooley

  Divorce, People, Boredom

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• My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.

  Mason Cooley

  Charity, Shame

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• Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Courage, Fear, Needs

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• I'm not a reluctant pop star. I'm very grateful and happy for everything that I have and for things when they go well. On the other hand, I've had enough of the other side to know that if it doesn't, I will survive that and life goes on.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Stars, Grateful, Hands

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.

  Deborah Harkness

  Writing, Years, People

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• Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such that they can understand property rights.

  Jesse Lee Peterson

  Nature, Rights, Conservative

  "Conservative Push For Solar Isn’t Quite As Conservative As It Seems", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2015.

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• When you improvise on the spot, people are very reluctant to have soft moments or quiet moments or sad moments because they're trying to fill up the spaces. So they always go towards, "How come you're late?! You're supposed to have my shirt ready! You call this a dry cleaner?!" That's what happens. That's why improvising on the spot gets very dicey.

  Albert Brooks

  Quiet Moments, Space, People

  "Albert Brooks Talks DRIVE, TAXI DRIVER, Improvising, Future Projects, Where’s the DEFENDING YOUR LIFE Blu-ray & Turning Down Roles". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Because I love the taste of meat I am a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian.

  Rex Harrison

  Meat, Taste, Vegetarian

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• The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

  Mark Twain

  Horse, Laughing, Ordinary

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches & essays”

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• Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Dark, Feelings

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• Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.

  Amira Hass

  Way, Surprise, Happens

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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