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• Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

  Dylan McDermott

  Writing, Acting, Roles

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• If my life were a corny horror movie, and the heroine was lost and alone, trapped in an underwater cave, what would happen next? If you guessed, “She drops her flashlight, and it hits a rock and breaks, leaving her in utter darkness,” you would be right. But I bet you didn’t guess the part about an attack by a giant octopus.

  James Patterson

  Octopus, Rocks, Darkness

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• You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.

  Byron Katie

  Lying, Light, Shining

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• I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go​, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and my books are the first items I pack into a suitcase. I am the person who family and friends call when they need a book recommendation or cannot remember who wrote Heidi. My identity as a person is so entwined with my love of reading and books that I cannot separate the two.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Reading, Two

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• The actual materials are important. A book at the nightstand is important - a light you can get at - or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Book, Writing, Light

  "The Essential Ginsberg".

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• Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it." (divergent pg.138)

  Veronica Roth

  Gun, Hands, Divergent

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• Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

  Gloria Steinem

  Dark, Shining, Curiosity

  Gloria Steinem (2013). “Marilyn: Norma Jeane”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  I Hate You, Love Is, Batteries

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a lighthouse versus a flashlight.

  Chris Tomlin

  Song, Writing, People

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• Robbie turned to the house again. "Got a flashlight?" "Of course not." I smirked. "That would make me too well prepared, wouldn't it?

  Cate Tiernan

  House, Wells, Prepared

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Blood Witch: Book Three”, p.105, Penguin

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• "Where did that flashlight come from?" Chloe asked. "My purse." Chloe looked at Tara. "She carries a flashlight in her purse." "For emergencies," Maddie said, trying to see into the yard.
  "You have any chocolate?" Chloe asked hopefully. "For emergencies?"
  "Of course. Side pocket, next to the fork."

  Jill Shalvis

  Chocolate, Trying, Pockets

  "Simply Irresistible". Book by Jill Shalvis, 2010.

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• Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.

  William Gibson

  Morning, Coffee, Dark

  William Gibson (1987). “Burning Chrome”, New York : Ace Books

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• Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.

  Ajahn Chah

  Fall, Light, Meditation

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• Touching hands are not like pharmaceuticals or scalpels. They are like flashlights in a darkened room. The medicine they administer is self-awareness. And for many of our painful conditions, this is the aid that is most urgently needed.

  Deane Juhan

  Self, Hands, Medicine

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• Too bad we don't have a flashlight." "Thanks for stating the obvious, Mr. Thomas," Minho replied.

  James Dashner

  Thanks, Obvious, Scorch Trials

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)”, p.418, Delacorte Press

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• Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.

  Ray Comfort

  Jesus, Leader, Batteries

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Feb 05, 2013

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• Moon In the Window I wish I could say I was the kind of child who watched the moon from her window, would turn toward it and wonder. I never wondered. I read. Dark signs that crawled toward the edge of the page. It took me years to grow a heart from paper and glue. All I had was a flashlight, bright as the moon, a white hole blazing beneath the sheets.

  Dorianne Laux

  Children, Heart, Dark

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• There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

  Edward Abbey

  Eye, Men, Light

  "Desert Solitaire".

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• I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because their might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready.

  Veronica Roth

  Dark, Gun, Light

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.68, Harper Collins

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• Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

  Sloane Crosley

  Christmas, Frustration, Light

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• Martin [Campbell] is very energetic and precise. He'll on the set like four hours early with a flashlight and I thought, well, I'll certainly try to be very neat about my script like Martin, which I wasn't, but I'm not going to do that bit with the 4AM and the flashlight. I'd love to be able to say I was nervous, but I wasn't. The only time I ever had anxiety it turned out to be asthma.

  William Monahan

  Anxiety, Trying, Four

  Source: collider.com

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• It was the 1950s, you know, and they had a ray gun, which was basically a flashlight with a sort of trigger on it. And it buzzed and a red light, you know, came on. But anyway we all had one - Davy Crockett hat.

  Nick Lowe

  Gun, Light, Rays

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.

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• I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. During lunch hour at school I'd avoid social interactions by sitting on the bathroom sink and reading. My mother worked in my school cafeteria. When my anxiety got really bad, I'd put a coat on, grab my book and a flashlight, and hide in the freezer with the mac and cheese.

  Jenny Lawson

  Mother, Self Esteem, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go blindly by, never coming to mind and never really missed. . . . I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Taken, Dark, Numbers

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.

  Janine di Giovanni

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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