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• I can tell when I've met a bad journalist when they say, "I've met Madonna," or "I know Marilyn Manson." Because I haven't met anyone I've ever interviewed. I've sat down in the position of an interviewer, and they've sat down in the position of an artist trying to promote a product. We have no relationship. I'm able to ask them questions I'd never be allowed to ask them if we were casual friends. It's a completely constructed kind of situation.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Artist, Trying, Able

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• I sat down and came up with a caption that I thought would fit well on the poster - something that was short and succinct but got a point across. The latest poster was a direct quote - it was exactly what the woman told me.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Down And, Fit, Posters

  "Meet the Woman Who Waged an Artistic War Against Her Street Harassers". Interview with Nina Liss-Schultz, www.motherjones.com. November 27, 2013.

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• I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

  David Shrigley

  Life And Death, Water, Jugs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I get very close to people when I'm shooting them. We would go and shoot a scene with Lucy, and I would spend the whole time telling her about Rob. Then I would go shoot a scene with Rob and tell him all about Lucy. Eventually they wanted to know each other. These are two people who would never have overlapped in any other way or context. We brought to the garden at Rob's office and just sat and watched what unfolded. I remember weeping behind the camera, because I was so moved by the way they connected.

  Abigail Disney

  Garden, Two, Office

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.

  Steve Earle

  Country, Running, Song

  "The Revolution Starts Now". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2004.

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• When I sat there in 1971 and watched my grandfather open Walt Disney World, I was a little 11-year-old girl who worshiped the ground he walked on. You probably couldn't have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company.

  Abigail Disney

  Girl, Years, Grandfather

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'd done a drawing of the model using only peripheral vision, looking at a spot on the wall to the right of where she sat. It wasn't really a drawing of her I produced; it was a drawing of the cloud of lights and darks she dissolved into when I focused on the spot. You could look at my drawing of this cloud and read it as a nude female figure, though a little translation was required.

  Peter Blegvad

  Wall, Clouds, Light

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.

  Dana Reinhardt

  Stars, Ocean, Math

  Dana Reinhardt (2011). “The Summer I Learned to Fly”, p.97, Wendy Lamb Books

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• If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.

  Robert Sternberg

  Sorry, Book, School

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• I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played 'Astrosmash' for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth.

  Roger Craig Smith

  Dad, Playing Games, Youth

  "Interview With Roger Craig Smith, the Voice of Batman, Captain America, and More!". Interview with Mike Cecchini, www.denofgeek.com. August 10, 2013.

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• From sitting down with West Timorese, to spending endless hours with the Afghan Taliban; to have sat with Al Qaeda after 9/11 I've always found myself crossing into the unknown - to the darker recesses.

  Michael Ware

  Hours, Al Qaeda, Taliban

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• I served as a missionary for my church. I served as a pastor in my congregation for about 10 years. I’ve sat across the table from people who were - were out of work and worked with them to try and find new work or to help them through tough times.

  Mitt Romney

  Years, People, Tough Times

  Mitt Romney at the Second Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn't noticed anything up until then.A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes - a very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.

  Al Jarreau

  Couple, Eight, Giving

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.

  Al Jarreau

  Mother, Dad, Piano

  "Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they sat down with the greatest philosopher on earth - the fire."

  J. Frank Dobie

  Men, Fire, Mountain

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• Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in New York. At last the inventor managed to escape the crowd of people vying for his attention, and sat alone unnoticed in a corner. Edison kept looking at his watch with a resigned expression on his face. A friend edged near to him unnoticed and heard the inventor mutter to himself with a sigh, "If there were only a dog here!"

  Edmund Fuller

  Dog, New York, Expression

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• Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.

  Tom Peters

  Fire, Way, Action

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• Good old Pete. That's me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I'm writing about The Who. So many times he has willingly sat down to write about the good old Who. Isn't he too old to masturbate?

  Pete Townshend

  Writing, Thinking, Firsts

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• The best thing that could've happened to me was that I learned a lot in Vegas, but I didn't know how to implement it. Whenever I came to Texas, all we had was Marc Laimon, jiu-jitsu coach. We didn't have a striking coach. So me and him started to just develop our own game, because he knows nothing about striking. We sat down and we sort of found my style. I think that was the best thing that could've happened to me.

  Johny Hendricks

  Thinking, Games, Vegas

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• (After getting out of another treatment center) I came home one Sunday morning. I sat on the edge of my bed. I never grew up going to church. I never read a Bible. I wasn't anti-God. I just never thought about God. I just lived for myself and thought about myself...I was married by this point. I'd been married for two years. So, here I am sitting on the edge of my bed, nine o'clock Sunday morning. I have a son who's not quite two yet and I just broke down crying because I had been out all weekend doing cocaine.

  Jay Haizlip

  Morning, Home, Son

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I wanted to use a totally different part of my brain. It's quite scary at times. I went for learning to fly because it was most difficult of all. The insurance man just sat there and licked his lips when I told him.

  Jay Kay

  Men, Scary, Brain

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 27, 2012.

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• As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.

  Kabir

  Distance, Talking, Long

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• When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced.

  Frank Herbert

  Book, Writing, Years

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.8, Penguin

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• So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means.

  Frank Zappa

  Mean, Listening, Way

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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• To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ambition, Soul, Spheres

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.706, Vintage

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