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• If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? If I'm such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it's out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she's sure it's not out of order?

  Judy Garland

  Lonely, Home, Order

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• On staring out at a gloomy day: First you must realize that it is the day that is gloomy, not you. If you want to be gloomy, too, that's all right, but it's not mandatory.

  Nora Gallagher

  Want, Firsts, Realizing

  Nora Gallagher (1981). “Simple pleasures: wonderful & wild things to do at home”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

  David Byrne

  Sea, Two, Stories

  David Byrne (2017). “How Music Works”, p.365, Three Rivers Press

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• Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

  Aaron Copland

  Symphony, Listening, Cows

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• Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

  Gene Fowler

  Inspirational, Writing, Blood

  Attributed without citation in Janice R. Matthews et al. "Successful Scientific Writing", p. 53, 2000.

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• In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Optimistic, Mirrors

  "Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars". Book by Ray Bradbury, 2005.

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• If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Night, Stars, Farewell

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• That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.

  James Herriot

  Morning, Too Much, Standing

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.187, Pan Macmillan

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• Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strength, Being Strong, Running

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.41, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I remember just looking at this lioness, she was staring at me, and we just had this weird connection.

  Jillian Hervey

  Connections, Lioness, Remember

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• There’s a good kind of crazy, Kaylee,” he insisted softly, reaching out to wrap his warm hand around mine. “It’s the kind that makes you think about things that make your head hurt, because not thinking about them is the coward’s way out. The kind that makes you touch people who bruise your soul, just because they need to be touched. This is the kind of crazy that lets you stare out into the darkness and rage at eternity, while it stares back at you, ready to swallow you whole.

  Rachel Vincent

  Hurt, Crazy, Thinking

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.242, Harlequin

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• We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist.

  Neil Shubin

  Years, Pieces, Body

  Neil Shubin (2008). “Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body”, p.38, Vintage

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• O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist;
  Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.

  W. H. Auden

  Regret, Hands, Water

  'As I Walked Out One Evening' (1940)

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• The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare. Alexia did not speak glare-ish.

  Gail Carriger

  Eye, Vampire, Trying

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• Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

  John Gunther

  War, Cities, Shoes

  JOHN GUNTHER (1958). “INSIDE RUSSIA TODAY”

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• Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch your door. You will just stare. As though rebuffed by it. As though it has done this to you.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Doors, Watches, Needs

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.114, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sky, Two, Abyss

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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• Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than...''You are not equal to...'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forever, Soul, Faces

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• Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas.

  Marc Jacobs

  Dream, Sky, Ideas

  "Marc Jacobs' new Daisy Dream is here". Interview with Ingeborg Van Lotringen, www.cosmopolitan.co.uk. July 1, 2014.

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• Okay, I’m dreaming. Hallucinating. Brought on by stress. I had a hard day today and this is my mind trying to protect itself from…from stuff. Lots of stuff. (Geary) (Arik, Trieg, and ZT stare at Geary.) Oh, like I’m any less sane than the three of you just because I talk to myself. (Geary)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Stress, Mind

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• It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.

  Isaac Marion

  Doors, Window, Locked

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• I don't feel anything about it. I really like "Staring at the Sun" - I like that song a lot. I haven't heard a lot of their records, but I know that they're cool. I know that the people who listen to them are really awesome and I like those people, so I know that I would like the band, I just don't own their records.

  Justin Vernon

  Song, People, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films. I remember being a teenager, and people getting out like Halloween [1978] or Saw [2004], and watching them, and I'd kind of just stare at the television logo and blur my eyes and pretend I was watching but I wasn't because I just found that I would take the movie home with me. I can scare myself like a pro.

  Imogen Poots

  Halloween, Teenager, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't really understsand why it's considered normal to stare at someone's eyeballs

  John Elder Robison

  Aspergers, Perfectly Natural, Normal

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• For gods' sake, Strider," Torin snapped. "Open your mouth and form some words. While you're at it, stop staring at the angel like he's a tasty treat.

  Gena Showalter

  Angel, Mouths, Sake

  Gena Showalter (2014). “Lords of the Underworld Collection 3: The Darkest Secret\The Darkest Surrender\The Darkest Seduction”, p.111, Harlequin

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