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• I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.

  Sloane Crosley

  Country, New York, Reality

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• It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Birthday, Careers, Ironic

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• I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, America, Trying

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• There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Elements, Lines

  "Nick Cave is not in the business of telling people what to do". Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. April 8, 2013.

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• The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

  Samuel Beckett

  Laughing, Tears, Quality

  "Waiting for Godot". Play by Samuel Beckett, 1952.

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• What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

  Erykah Badu

  Interviews, Articles, Furious

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• I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.

  Malin Akerman

  Reality, Labyrinth, World

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

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• The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Pain, Doors

  Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.53, John Wiley & Sons

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• That okay. I'll go find somewhere else to sleep." Her fingers wrap around my arm. "You don't have to go anywhere. I feel safe with you.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Sleep, Safe, Arms

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.121, Hachette UK

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• ...being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy, even. I thought. Then someone came along and showed me there was a door in the room. One that I'd never even seen before. Then he opened it for me. Held my hand as I walked through it. And for one perfect day, I was on the other side. I was somewhere else. Someone else. And then he was gone, and I was thrown back into my little room. And now, no matter what I do, I can't seem to find that door.

  Gayle Forman

  Doors, Hands, Perfect Days

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Mar 16, 2013

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• But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.

  Dave Eggers

  Inspiration, Animal, Frustration

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.287, Pan Macmillan

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• We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

  Tom Stoppard

  Integrity, History, Looks

  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) act 1

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• It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.

  Joan Didion

  New York, Cities, Rich

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Oct 15, 2013

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• Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Advice, Household Chores

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his inner ear so he could leave this world as he'd entered it through the undependable irrational influence of water. -Kevin Jeffery Clark It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicidal, Dark, Sea

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• What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really appear to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn't stay there any longer and had to go somewhere else to make it. That's all. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts. Those who were making it in England, for example, did not get on the Mayflower. That's how the country was settled.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Believe, Hero

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• In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else....No, we should not tolerate people immigrating illegally. But we need to treat this issue honestly and fairly.

  Leon Panetta

  Zero, Taken, Games

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• Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.

  George Carlin

  Music, Thinking, Jam

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Believe, People

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.63, A&C Black

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• We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Energy, Electricity, Electrical

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Religious, Organization, Tolerance

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• It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.

  David Lee Roth

  People, Wow, Action

  "Van Halen's David Lee Roth: 'I've always been a show-off' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Mick Brown, www.theguardian.com. 1984.

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• Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

  Salman Rushdie

  Wish, Isolation, Melancholy

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• Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Space, Okay, Folds

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2010.

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• Sell stupid somewhere else--there's nothing better than that face!

  Stephenie Meyer

  Stupid, Faces, Sells

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