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• I think being a woman alone enhanced the impulse in others to be generous. What we're told is that to be a woman alone is to be in a dangerous situation. The message is that people are gong to prey on you and do bad things to you. That may be true in some cases, but what I experienced was the other case.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Thinking, Dangerous Situations, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.

  William Carlos Williams

  Moving, Rain, Dark

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.174, New Directions Publishing

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• Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.

  Anne Waldman

  Dog, Art, Growing Up

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.

  Hugh Sidey

  Wrestling, Creating, Presidential

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• I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Hate, Writing

  "An Interview with Gossip Girl's Author". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 26, 2010.

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• I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy crowds I love the sound of gongs and trumpets along the streets I love circus performances I even wish to die in this moment of glorious encounter.

  Ai Qing

  Morning, Wish To Die, Joy

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• He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Dinner, Cyanide, Forgotten

  1925 Carry On, Jeeves,'Clustering Around Young Bingo'.

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• He wasn’t a carrier of commitment-phobia or other notable boy diseases and he used expensive moisturizer. That’s about all it takes to bang my gong.

  Diablo Cody

  Commitment, Boys, Bangs

  Diablo Cody (2005). “Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper”, p.88, Penguin

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• The Gong Show was the greatest scam of all time. It was simple: We wanted to do a talent show. There weren't any venues for acts back then. We were gonna have a show of new, fresh, good acts. But we couldn't find any; they were all lousy. So rather than throw away the idea, I said, "Let's reverse it. Let's do lousy acts." Now, is that a scam? I'm telling you.

  Chuck Barris

  Simple, Ideas, Scams

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• To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.

  Frederick Lenz

  Compassion, People, Sound

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• Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Sleep, Night

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• They're not gong to give Hateful Eight its credit now, they'll give it its credit later. Hateful Eight was too long. I think we've indulged Quentin [Tarantino] so much with his monologues. Quentin has this very strong cult following around him and his projects, and people are always expecting so much from him.

  Bun B

  Strong, Thinking, Eight

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• Billy Carter, who asked his brother Jimmy, Do you think you could get me on the Gong Show? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Brother, Thinking, Dinner

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• I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.

  Jamie Farr

  Games, Done, Shows

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• The only thing that is guaranteed in life is that we're all gong to die at some point, so it's important to make the most of now.

  Elaine Cassidy

  Important, Life Is, Dies

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of these purpose-built Borders and Chapters and every new mall that goes up has a giant chain bookstore with a purpose-built author reading space, whoah, what's gong on there.

  William Gibson

  Reading, Europe, Space

  Source: craphound.com

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• I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Kids, House, Three

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• If I'm gong out to a club I like to have fun with it. I'll use blue or red sparkly eyeliners and glittery eye shadows. Then I'll put on some blue mascara. I focus on the eyes.

  Julia Stiles

  Fun, Eye, Blue

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• I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Age, Common, Shows

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• I love Death Race, it's one of my favorite films. I thought, "You know what? All that two years worth of work is now gong to be wasted because I'm highly unlikely to direct another car movie straight away," and I felt at that point there was no one who was kind of better at shooting cars, so I thought rather than let it go to waste I would explore the idea of doing commercials, and that's what I did.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Race, Years, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance he'd have tried at least a ride. . . . We'll stick to the army on the ground and the battleships at sea.

  John W. Weeks

  Airplane, Army, Sea

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• Compared with the BBC's studied neutrality, Fox comes across as a kind of Gong Show of propaganda.

  Russ Baker

  Neutrality, Foxes, Kind

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• The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Night, Resonance

  "Byzantium" l. 1 (1933)

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• I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on wires mounted like tin soldiers. Hours like tall ebony women with gongs between their legs, tolling continuously so that I could not count them. I heard the rolling of my heart-beats; I heard the footsteps of my dreams, and the beat of time was lost among them like the face of truth.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Heart, Ivory

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• God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Soul, Mind, Bells

  "Life Thoughts".

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