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• You know, I'm a product of my environment, gettin' into everything you know a kid my age would get into, a lot of negativity was surroundin' me. And we came, sat up and had a discussion about makin' a record, I think I was more or less overwhelmed with just that fact.

  Raekwon

  Kids, Thinking, Negativity

  Source: thequietus.com

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• As I saw my 60th birthday approaching, I thought,What did 60 mean to me? I figured I'd probably live until I'm about 90, which meant that I was at the beginning of what I call my third act. As an actress, I know how important the third act is. It makes sense of the first and second acts. You can have first and second acts that are interesting, but you don't know what they mean. Then a good third act pulls it all together. And so I knew that, because I sat by my father's side over the long months when he was dying.

  Jane Fonda

  Mean, Long, Interesting

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• If I sat down in any room, I'd have as much to learn from anybody in that room as they'd have to learn from me. If I sit down and just really listen and hear who you are and what you have to say, what you fears are, what your ambitions are, and what your vision is, I have just as much to learn from you as you have to learn from me.

  Wayne Dyer

  Ambition, Vision, Who You Are

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• I do a lot of cooking. I've always cooked for my family and my father and I cooked together. It's just one of the things I like to do. If you came around my house for dinner, you'd watch me cook as we sat around the kitchen and cooked and talked. For me, that's centralised... friendship and family around food and cooking.

  Brad Lewis

  Father, House, Cooking

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• Even in the tragedies, Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools. He puts in certain middle-range characters. And when you go to the Globe, you realize how that all works. The people who paid more sat in seats around the edge. Everybody else paid a penny. They put it into a tin box - that's why we call it the "box office." They stood in the pit, but they were very close, so when Hamlet was doing his soliloquy, it was addressed to you, the audience - right there.

  Margaret Atwood

  Character, People, Office

  "Margaret Atwood Remixes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a Prison Drama". Interview With Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2016.

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• I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.

  Avey Tare

  School, Warrior, Thinking

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• I was Gator in Jungle Fever, and Chris Rock played Pookie, and those showed two very different dynamics of what crackheads were. Mine was more about the family relationships. So when people sat there and got that, they can sit there and say, "Oh, man, that's my friend." Or "That's my brother." Or cousin or somebody. They empathize, or they had something that they could latch onto, in that particular movie, of my story, and go with it.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Cousin, Brother, Men

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• Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Israel, Years

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• I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

  Alan Alda

  Blow, Volcanoes, Sharks

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• We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.

  Gary Allan

  Guitar, Whiskey, Feds

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• I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

  Tori Amos

  Two, Piano, Half

  "This much I know: Tori Amos". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

  Jay-Z

  Growing Up, Phones, People

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• I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.

  Nicole Kidman

  Baby, Jesus, School

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Oct 12, 2016

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• I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Mother, Father, Remember

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• We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.

  Eric Liu

  Mean, Reality, May

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• I tore up my knee break dancing. I have no idea how that happened. Apparently these legs are meant for swimming, but not dancing. I was watching an MTV video, thinking, "I can do this." Definitely not. I heard a pop. I sat down and it blew up like a watermelon. I had to go to the hospital and get surgery.

  Ryan Lochte

  Swimming, Thinking, Mtv

  "Q&A with Golden Goggles winner Ryan Lochte". Interview with Brian Cazeneuve, www.si.com. November 23, 2010.

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• So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Character, Thinking, People

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• Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Anxiety, Tense

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• My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

  Loretta Lynn

  Birthday, Hero, April

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• Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.

  David Mamet

  Years, Degrees, Down And

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• There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stars, Mistake, Light

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

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• It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

  Stevie Nicks

  Birthday, Mom, Song

  "A Three-Way with Stevies Williams, Nicks, and Wonder". Interview with Brayden Olson, www.vice.com. August 15, 2012.

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• I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.

  Rick Perry

  Thinking, May, Economics

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• I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.

  Karl Pilkington

  Weather, Mosquitoes, Gorillas

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

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• When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.

  Brad Pitt

  Art, Class, Littles

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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