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• A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

  Scott Spencer

  House, Trying, Novelists

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• CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.

  Ted Turner

  Weed, Marijuana, Anchors

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• whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!

  David Lodge

  Horse, Eye, Space

  David Lodge (1984). “Small world: an academic romance”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the smoke, and prepares to vacate the neighborhood, just like Ayrs and Jocasta. My worry is that the next war will be so big, nowhere with a decent restaurant will be left untouched.

  David Mitchell

  Wise, War, Men

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.442, Random House Group

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• I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

  Mickey Spillane

  Names, Want, Coming Out

  Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.

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• The best herb I smoke in Jamaica and Africa. African - Rasclot! Them people cure it in a banana. In a banana skin. A green banana. They wrap it up in a banana so when you get it, it compressed and, I'll tell you, it great! Blood clot! In Nigeria and Ghana, love that herb! Good herb, mon.

  Bob Marley

  Ghana, Blood, Jamaica

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• Yeah, man. It's time to let de people get good herbs and smoke. Government's a joke. All dey wan' is ya smoke cigarettes and cigar. Some cigar wickeder den herb. Yeah, man, ya can't smoke cigar. Smoke herb. Some big cigar me see man wit', God bless! Me tell him must smoke herb.

  Bob Marley

  Men, People, Herbs

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• All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?

  Bob Marley

  Music, Government, People

  Interview with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand, 1979.

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• I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.

  Mickey Spillane

  Trying, Shapes, Drink

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• Herb? Herb is the healing of the nation, seen? Once you smoke herb, you all must think alike. Now if you thinking alike, dat mean we 'pon the same track. If we 'pon the same track, that mean we gonna unite.

  Bob Marley

  Healing, Mean, Thinking

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• I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

  John Burns

  Mind, Three, Drink

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• In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

  Scott Thompson

  Thinking, Speaks French, Giving

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• A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.

  Lord Byron

  Dirty, Eye, Sight

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• To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Men, Liberty, Meat

  Jeremy Taylor, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “The Works of Jeremy Taylor”, p.97

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• The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit.

  Robert Stone

  Giving Up, Typewriters, Smoking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues. I really thought I was supposed to be a boy. I used to sneak into my dad's room and put on a suit, drink a cocktail, and pretend to smoke a cigarette.

  Jane Lynch

  Dad, Kids, Boys

  Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. May 19, 2009.

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• It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep it lit.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Mouths, Kind, Brutal

  "‘Crimson Peak': Charlie Hunnam on Inspiration from the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle and More". Interview on the Set, collider.com. October 15, 2015.

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• Reality doesn't have any preconceived ideas. You've got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette. You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You've got to do things and not show them.

  James Dean

  Drinking, Reality, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren't part of the language of men.

  Anita Roddick

  Men, Tables, Firsts

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Be drug-free and smoke some crack.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Drug, Cracks, Drug Free

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• Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave - but there's no need to be in the passing lane.

  Robert Orben

  Needs, Too Much, Drink

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• Wherever there is smoke there is a good smoke machine.

  John F. Kennedy

  Machines

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• The graphics elevator lurched upwards again. This time the new dimension is multimedia, which means adding sound and fury to the smoke and mirrors.

  Edward Tenner

  Mean, Mirrors, Dimensions

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• Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

  William Shakespeare

  Valentines Day, Falling In Love, Love You

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• I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.

  Bob Herbert

  Smell, Warfare, Complaining

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