I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. ~John Mayall
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree. ~Polish Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected. ~Jacki Weaver
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. ~Adam Driver
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It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right winger. ~Robert Winston
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Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts. ~Soren Kierkegaard
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Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day. ~Stephen King
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It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life. I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't. I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense. ~Randy Houser
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical.
Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal. Can you find your way through the lyrics that be catching them? Throw another rhyme across the room, they be fetching them. ~Masta Ace
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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