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• I love doing horror with comedy twists and I think it's a really fun genre.

  Katrina Bowden

  Fun, Thinking, Comedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.

  Alice Hoffman

  Husband, Dark, Night

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.260, Penguin Group

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• Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.

  Neal Shusterman

  Dream, Reality, Emotion

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “Dread Locks #1”, p.84, Penguin

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• My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.

  Bruce Sterling

  Dream, Technology, Bigs

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• Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

  Paul Brunton

  Yield, Ego, Firsts

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth”

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• Is that love? It seems like a pale word, too easily tossed about by people who don’t know the meaning of it, who twist it for their own ends. I’m afraid of it now, right up there with clowns, close spaces, and open flames.

  Ann Aguirre

  Flames, Space, People

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.30, Penguin

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• Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not." The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.

  Cassandra Clare

  Doors, Giving, Darkness

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Moving, Tables, Violin

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• When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces. The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.

  David Foster Wallace

  Home, Men, Faces

  "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1999.

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• Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water.

  Sherwood Smith

  Memories, Reality, Sight

  Sherwood Smith (1997). “Crown Duel”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... those who sit in the darkness of passions and whose minds are blinded by ignorance, or, rather, those who have not acquired the 'mind of Christ' (I Cor. 2:16), think that he who has the mind of Christ is foolish, and that he who has it not is sensible. Of these the prophet David rightly states, 'The ignorant and foolish perish together' (Ps. 49:11). Therefore such men twist the whole of Scripture according to their own desires (cf. II Pet. 3:3, 16) and corrupt themselves in their own passions. But it is not divine Scripture that suffers from this, but those who disfigure it!

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Passion, Ignorance

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• One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

  Peter Carey

  Real, Character, Play

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• I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.

  Richard Armitage

  Opportunity, Thinking, Doe

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• I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

  Solange Knowles

  Hair, Natural, Steam

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

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• For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Blessing, Remember

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• Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there’s some of that too.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sadness, Voice, Guilt

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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• When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Hair, Mind

  "Maya Angelou: How I Write". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

  Bob Kane

  Unique, Ideas, Imagination

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• To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.

  Nora Roberts

  Fate, Together, Way

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• Something inside me twists as I remember another voice. Rue. In the arena. When I gave her the leg of groosling. “Oh, I've never had a whole leg to myself before.” The disbelief of the chronically hungry.

  Suzanne Collins

  Voice, Legs, Rue

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.143, Scholastic Inc.

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• Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.

  John Huston

  Beautiful, Giving, Trying

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• One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Real, Clothes, People

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• The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

  John Perkins

  Fate, Choices, Who We Are

  John Perkins (2016). “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.30, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.

  Marcus Sedgwick

  Hero, Character, Bridges

  Marcus Sedgwick (2010). “Blood Red, Snow White: n/a”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.

  Calvin Trillin

  Mean, Gestalt, May

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