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• If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.

  Geraldine Chaplin

  Steel, Nerves, Normal

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• ... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use.

  Timothy Gowers

  Confused, Science, Atlas

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• Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.

  Gertrude Stein

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Differences

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• Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Return

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• [The Freedom Writer] is full of disinformation ... typical of left-wing journals like yours, you print anything you can find that is derogatory to those with whom you disagree - without checking the facts.

  Tim LaHaye

  Wings, Scary, Facts

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• I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.

  Joseph DeRisi

  School, Thinking, Junior High

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• To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.

  Stephen Burt

  Unique, Justice, Poetry

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• John Guidetti is a typical English striker. Even though he is Swedish

  Gareth Barry

  Swedish, Strikers

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• I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Heart, First Love, Boys

  "Caroline Leavitt Throws Stones at Her Own Characters: An Interview". Interview with Meg Waite Clayton, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

  Jackson Katz

  School, News, Shooting

  "Memo to Media: Manhood, Not Guns or Mental Illness, Should Be Central in Newtown Shooting" by Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

  Ryan Lewis

  Artist, Movement, Recognition

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• I certainly have opportunities many can only dream of - but in most ways Im a typical girl in her 20s trying to forge a career and represent herself in what can sometimes seem rather strange circumstances. One of the most attractive has been the chance to publish Celebrate.

  Pippa Middleton

  Girl, Dream, Opportunity

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• I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Daughter, Mother, Perfection

  "Dorothy Hamill: Life wasn't 'cake' after gold" by Mike Celzic, www.today.com. October 03, 2007.

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• Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his eyes, about the need for universal love; at the next, furiously denouncing the morons, crooks and bigots who did not see eye to eye with him. It is very natural and very human behaviour. But it is not superhuman.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Jesus, Eye, Tears

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• The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.

  Bob Barr

  Moving, Cutting, Names

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• It's a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do it.

  Julie Delpy

  Thinking, Stories

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2007.

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• Dieter Dengler was an amazing man. Who knows what he would've been had he not ever been tested in this way? It's a question that I certainly have myself. What would I be able to do in certain situations? He came out, obviously, looking like a true hero, but he didn't go in looking like that. He was not your typical image of somebody that you would think would be the tough guy who was able to endure. His lighthearted attitude, this sort of dorkiness, and naivete; it ended up being the finest tool for his survival.

  Christian Bale

  Attitude, Hero, Men

  "Christian Bale Pushes the Limits in Rescue Dawn". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. July 8, 2007.

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• Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political background. Also, the audience doesn't know who ends up with who until the very end, which makes it a sort of "romantic mystery comedy".

  Isla Fisher

  Political, Comedy, Mystery

  "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The community in Utah was very religious. I was a typical teenage girl trying to find my sexuality. Unfortunately, girls do use their sexuality to find attention. I also understand why parents want to protect their kids.

  Julianne Hough

  Girl, Religious, Teenage

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• I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my family, a typical aspirational Jewish family, being a writer was very much exalted, and it seemed impossible to me, that I could ever do something like that.

  Mark Leyner

  Book, Grandparent, Looks

  "Whit Stillman and Mark Leyner on Their First Projects in 15 Years". Interview with Matthew Perpetua, www.rollingstone.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.

  Graham Greene

  Race, Violence, Favour

  Graham Greene (1982). “Another Mexico”, Viking Adult

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• In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

  Colin Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Years

  "The Encyclopedia of Modern Murder 1962-1983". Book by Colin Wilson, Introductory Essay, p. xiv, 1983.

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• The Law was given by Moses; the moral law, to discover the extent and abounding sin; the ceremonial law, to point out, by typical sacrifices and ablutions, the way in which forgiveness was to be sought and obtained. But grace, to relieve us from the condemnation of the one, and truth answerable to the types and shadows of the other, came by Jesus Christ.

  John Newton

  Christian, Jesus, Sacrifice

  John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.227

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• This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

  John Simon

  Racist, Mockingbird, Cases

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• Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows just one thing. So Shakespeare is a typical fox; Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are typical hedgehogs. Now, I'm a typical hedgehog. I know just one thing, and I repeat it over and over again. I try to approach it from different angles to make it look different, but it's the same thing.

  Colin Wilson

  Two, Trying, Different

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