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• Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.

  Abbi Glines

  Wall, School, Kids

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Fallen Too Far”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.

  Anne Rice

  Song, Listening, Favorite Song

  Anne Rice (1993). “Lasher”, Alfred A. Knopf Canada

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• In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.

  Nate Berkus

  Book, Mean, Space

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• If someone else of the opposite sex joins either of you in your favorite recreational activities, you are at risk of falling in love with that person.

  Willard F. Harley

  Falling In Love, Sex, Opposites

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• I was just thinking of bundling up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks at Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile. "I could use your assistance." "Unfortunately, you may have to delay your plans for suicide a bit longer. Gabriel Lightwood is downstairs, and I have two words for you. Two of your favorite words, at least when you put them together." "'Utter simpleton'?" inquired Will. "'Worthless upstart'?" Jem grinned. "'Demon pox,'" he said.

  Cassandra Clare

  Suicide, Thinking, Two

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.946, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything all right, Gwyneth?” asked Gideon, raising one eyebrow. “You look nervous. Would you like a cigarette to calm your nerves? What was your favorite brand, did you say? Marlboros?” I could only stare at him speechlessly. “Leave her alone,” said Xemerius. “Can’t you see she’s unhappy in love, bonehead? All because of you! What are you doing here, anyway?

  Kerstin Gier

  Eyebrows, Unhappy, Gideon

  Kerstin Gier (2012). “Sapphire Blue”, p.215, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Goal, Excuse

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 20, 2013

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• Your favorite colour . . . it's green?" "That's right." Then I think of something to add. "And yours is orange." "Orange?" He seems unconvinced. "Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once." "Oh." He closes his eyes briefly, maybe trying to conjure up that sunset, then nods his head. "Thank you." But more words tumble out. "You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sunset, Sleep, Eye

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• Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, "How did he do it? He must be a genius!"

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Science, People, Giving

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• Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Heart, Sorrow

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• I wanna be the smile you put on your face.
  I wanna be your hands when you say your grace.
  I wanna be whatever is your favorite place, oh
  I just wanna be close

  Avant

  Song, Hands, Grace

  Song: Wanna Be Close, Album: Private Room, 2003

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• If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene, or your very best idea or set-piece, and cut it. It's brutal, but sometimes inevitable.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Cutting, Ideas

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• You can't say your favorite kind of cake is birthday cake, that's like saying your favorite kind of cereal is breakfast cereal.

  Aziz Ansari

  Cake, Cereal, Breakfast

  "Fictional character: Tom Haverford". "Parks and Recreation" (TV Series), Episode: "Hunting Trip", www.imdb.com. 2009–2015.

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• I'm often asked, "What is your favorite moment during the 30 years you hosted [The Tonight Show]?" I really don't have just one. The times I enjoyed the most were the spontaneous, unplanned segments that just happened, like Ed Ames' infamous "Tomahawk Toss" that produced one of the longest laughs in television history. When these lucky moments happen, you just go with them and enjoy the experience and high of the moment.

  Johnny Carson

  Years, Laughing, Lucky

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

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• You might be a redneck if your favorite T-shirt is offensive in thirteen states.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Might, Offensive

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• When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Teenager, People, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Imagine you are trying to lose weight and attempting to concentrate on writing an article, but there is a bowl with your favorite chocolate cookies in your field of vision, a permanent immoral offer. If we are capable of rejecting such offers or to postpone them into the future, then we can also concentrate on that which we currently want to do.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Writing, Chocolate, Vision

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Everyone has days where they don't get their way, where you have to go to bed early or you have too much homework to do or you can't eat the candy that you want or you miss your favorite TV show and, in those moments, you just want to tear the whole world down.

  Alex Hirsch

  Tv Shows, Missing, Tears

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. I'm not me anymore.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Gone, Losing, Stargirl

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.142, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.

  Donald Miller

  Falling In Love, Real, Trying

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I feel like the last tattoo you got is usually your favorite.

  Nico Tortorella

  Tattoo, Lasts, Feels

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite wrestler has the one move that he always does to finish his opponent off, right? Like when he climbs on the rope, and he always jumps off the top rope and finishes off his opponent - that's what a comic has.

  J. B. Smoove

  Moving, Wrestling, Signatures

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• If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears.' That's a nerd.

  Donald Glover

  Black, Nerd, Robots

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• I love to read autobiographies. [What is your favorite autobiography?] the autobiography of Coach John Wooden. Everybody has a struggle so it's about seeing how they overcome it and be the best they can.

  Meb Keflezighi

  Struggle, Overcoming, Being The Best

  Source: brooklynactivemama.com

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• You might be a redneck if your favorite Christmas present was a painting on black velvet.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Black, Velvet

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