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• My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

  Joel Osteen

  Fun, Party, Together

  "Joel Osteen — Always Taking The High Road". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

  Steve Martin

  School, People, Laughing

  "Actor-musician Steve Martin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 22, 2012.

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• I think when people see that you are shy, or even just calm, collected and reserved, they think you can be pushed around, made to do everything they want - but that's definitely not true of me. The people closest to me know that's not the case. They know I'm not a pushover.

  Leona Lewis

  Thinking, People, Shy

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

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• If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Running, Discovery, Things In Life

  Charles Krauthammer (1985). “Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties”, Random House (NY)

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• An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

  Johan Huizinga

  Attitude, Sober Up, Expression

  Johan Huizinga (2014). “Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance”, p.47, Princeton University Press

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• They say it's not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It's the waiting for the nasal passages of the person lying beside you to strike again. And strike it always does. In the dark, almost against your will, you produce that special glare reserved for people who cannot control their own behaviour.

  Sloane Crosley

  Lying, Dark, People

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• This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

  Tina Fey

  Queens, Levels, Pope

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• No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person like me understand that, being a dog, he was wasting time, but, with those eyes so much purer than mine, he’d keep on gazing at me with a look that reserved for me alone all his sweet and shaggy life, always near me, never troubling me, and asking nothing.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dog, Sweet, Eye

  Pablo Neruda, “A Dog Has Died”

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• Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower outside his La Jolla, California, house. Geisel was a much more quiet man than his jocular rhymes suggest. He rarely ventured out in public to meet his young readership, fretting that kids would expect a merry, outspoken, Cat in the Hat–like figure, and would be disappointed with his reserved personality. “In mass, [children] terrify me,” he admitted.

  Susan Cain

  Children, Wall, Cat

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.86, Broadway Books

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• Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.

  Aldo Leopold

  Tree, Example, Needs

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.143, Oxford University Press

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• There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Women, Safety

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.172

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• [...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.

  Aldous Huxley

  Kings, Holiday, Technology

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Heaven and hell”

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• For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.

  Haruki Murakami

  Romantic, True Love, Heart

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 10, 2016

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• Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another." pg 69 Tomas to Vlad

  Heather Brewer

  Passion, Fighting, Odds

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• How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved for future joys which now would never arrive.

  Galen Beckett

  Joy, Mind, Return

  Galen Beckett (2012). “The Master of Heathcrest Hall”, p.35, Spectra

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• ...humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Mercy, Scope, Humankind

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.342, Hachette UK

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• He began it,” Cecily said, jerking her chin at Will, though she knew it was pointless. Jem, Will’s parabatai, treated her with the distant sweet kindness reserved for the little sisters of one’s friends, but he would always side with Will. Kindly, but firmly, he put Will above everything else in the world. Well, nearly everything.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sweet, Kindness, Little Sister

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.

  Don DeLillo

  Mean, Past, Night

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• He seems so.. English sometimes, kind of distant or reserved, but then he'll look at me, and his eyes see right through to my soul.

  Cate Tiernan

  Eye, Soul, Looks

  Cate Tiernan (2002). “Wicca 10: Seeker: Seeker”, p.5, Penguin UK

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• I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.

  Kevin Bacon

  Believe, Sadness, Thinking

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

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• We turn off the TV, video games and computer - except for homework - during the week. The TV's reserved for Friday night, Saturday and Sunday just because that's the time to do homework, and it makes it that much less chaotic in our house.

  Candace Cameron

  Friday, Sunday, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

  Alicia Vikander

  Thinking, Interviews, Film

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• My heart, independent of my logic, had reserved a place for my tormentor and my solace.

  CJ Roberts

  Heart, Independent, Mentor

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• Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and to burst with boldness and good-will into the silent sea of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Grief, Sea, People

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.303, Penguin

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• Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Movie, Ideas, Territory

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