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• After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It sounded like a wonderfully fun thing to do. And I wanted to write something happy about Haiti, something celebratory. And going to carnival gave me a chance to do that, because it is one of the instances in Haiti when people shed their class separation and come together.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Fun, Writing, Class

  Interview David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Tears unnumbered ye shall shed.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Tears

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It exasperated her sometimes. The way men could be so sure of themselves. They put words together like sheds or shelves and you could stand on them they were so solid. And those feelings which overwhelmed you in the small hours turned to smoke.

  Mark Haddon

  Men, Feelings, Together

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• Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Light, Race, Black Youth

  Michael Eric Dyson (2010). “Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

  E. B. White

  Birthday, Special, Age

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• A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Children, Men, America

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (Complete)”, p.174, Library of Alexandria

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• Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.

  Angie Stone

  Self, Light, God Love

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• I had to wear a fat suit to play Mma Ramotswe in 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.' She's described as being like a small elephant, but she loves her body and size. When we were filming in Africa, it was 110F. It was torturous. I drank a lot of water and ate cucumbers all the time, and underneath the fat suit I shed pounds - I couldn't help it.

  Jill Scott

  Agency, Play, Mma

  "What I see in the mirror" by Jill Scott, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Son, Blood, Giving

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 3, sc. 5, 1951.

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• I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.

  Natalie Portman

  Nice, Vanity, Levels

  "Natalie Portman turns heads in 'Vendetta'". www.today.com. February 14, 2006.

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• You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

  Brad Pitt

  Character, Men, Two

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• When I was doing 'Scarface,' I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time. I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.

  Al Pacino

  Home, Being In Love, Looks

  "Pacino's way" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2004.

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• Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.

  Steven Morrissey

  Catholic, Birth, Wells

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• No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Blood, Kingdoms

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• Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

  Courtney Love

  Cheerleading, School, Cheerleader

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

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• Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.

  Brian Greene

  Light, Ideas, Space

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• If I dare to tear up or shed a tear, then I'm criticized for that as well! It's a horrible double standard, but quite frankly, I don't have time enough to fight that battle and fight crime. I chose to fight crime and ignore the rest. I just keep going to the best I can.

  Nancy Grace

  Fighting, Battle, Tears

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

  Heinrich Heine

  Blow, Tears, May

  "The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, p. 60, 1987.

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• We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed were sighing. The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna's breathing. I thought about waking her. but it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you... It's always necessary. I love you.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Father, Book, Fall

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We should not shed tears That is a surrender of the body to the heart It is only proof That we are beings that do not know What to do with out hearts

  Tite Kubo

  Heart, Tears, Bleach

  "Bleach". Manga series by Tite Kubo, August 20, 2001 – August 22, 2016.

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• For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.

  Virginia Woolf

  Adventure, Thinking, Attachment

  Virginia Woolf (1937). “To the Lighthouse”

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• Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heartbreak, Prayer, Integrity

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.262, Penguin

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• No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].

  Terry Pratchett

  Garden, Hair, Ties

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• From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

  William Shakespeare

  Brother, Thinking, Blood

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 35

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• That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Dark, Night, Men

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.35, Penguin

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