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• Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Survival, Age

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• I don't really frick with Africa cause people are starving to death and that's not ballin' to me.

  Dave Chappelle

  People, Causes

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• Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

  Chris Tucker

  Hurt, Character, London

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• And remember how he wrote the first Rocky in a few days, and wouldn't sell the script even though he was starving, because they wanted to put somebody else in the lead role. To see what he's accomplished, dog, that's what it's all about.

  Terry Crews

  Dog, Roles, Scripts

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Holiness comes by holy deeds. Not starving flesh of daily needs.

  Saadi

  Deeds, Holiness, Flesh

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• Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey

  Memories, Leaving, Purpose

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• I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.289, Best Books on

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• ... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

  Anne Sexton

  Men, Meals, Hunger

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• ...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.

  Saul Bellow

  Struggle, Sleep, Fighting

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• For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving. I'm so lucky to have this job, I'm compensated for my work in an incredible way. But what I do ask is when I join a production I want to make sure that the male actor isn't making four times my salary, which has been true, or seven times my salary. And if that's true you go, you know what, I don't need this job. It's not really asking for more - it's asking for something that is respectable and equal to the male actor and you have to go, why are women being valued less?

  Jessica Chastain

  Jobs, Want, Way

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.

  Herman Melville

  Children, Father, Simple

  Herman Melville (2012). “Typee: A Romance of the South Seas (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.129, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.

  Erica Jong

  Holocaust, Weight, Way

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

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• I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, People, Might

  "I Remain Fascinated by Memory". Interview with Michael Scott Moore and Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. October 5, 2005.

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• If you were starving and had all the time in the world, would you stop eating the greatest slice of cake on earth halfway through? Then why would you quit on your dreams?

  Gregor Collins

  Dream, Cake, Earth

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• Most Americans are skipping meals and when they do eat, they're starving and they're eating an excess of sugar and calories. Really it's about eating breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, and dinner, and trying to feed yourself.

  Jackie Warner

  Snacks, Lunch, Trying

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 25, 2008.

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• My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest develops as I write, and research helps a great deal with that. If you're going to write about an agrarian economy, research agrarian economies. If your main character is starving, then you should know what it means for a malnourished body to break down.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Character, Mean, Writing

  "YA masters Rae Carson and Leigh Bardugo talk world building and feminism -- exclusive". Interview with Isabella Biedenharn, ew.com. September 24, 2015.

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• Never pass up an opportunity to speak a kind word of appreciation. There are six billion people on the planet, and 5.9 billion of them go to bed every night starving for one honest word of appreciation.

  Matthew Kelly

  Appreciation, Opportunity, Night

  Matthew Kelly (2004). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• The liberal reward of labor, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the laboring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition that they going backwards fast.

  Adam Smith

  Hands, Rewards, Maintenance

  Adam Smith, Bruce Mazlish (2003). “The Wealth of Nations: Representative Selections”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• A lot of my clients say they don't deserve to mope about their sad little memories while children are starving in India. I say that just because your broken arm isn't as serious as someone else's gut wound, that doesn't mean your injury isn't excruciating or doesn't require attention. If you want to help the Indian children, or make the world a better place in any other way, you have to start by becoming whole yourself.

  Martha Beck

  Memories, Children, Mean

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.145, Harmony

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• In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York.

  Francesco Clemente

  New York, People, Naked

  "New Again: Francesco Clemente". Interview with Edit deAk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• There's always got to be room for what you might call benign corruption. Nobody blames a man who steals food to feed his starving children, but on the other hand, somebody who picks up a badge and takes an oath to serve and protect; we do expect a certain level of essential honesty.

  Denzel Washington

  Children, Honesty, Men

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job. And if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing. And it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.

  Anna Holmes

  Mom, Jobs, Children

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I can't enjoy anything unless everybody is. If one guy is starving someplace, that puts a crimp in my evening.

  Woody Allen

  Guy, Annie Hall, Evening

  "Fictional character: Alvy Singer". "Annie Hall", www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

  Henry James

  Beauty, Beautiful, Useless Things

  Henry James (2016). “Italian Hours”, p.192, Youcanprint

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• The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Technology, People, Earth

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