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• I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.

  Elvis Costello

  Lying, Critics

  "Interview about The Delivery Man". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

  Penelope Lively

  Kings, Grateful, Agnostic

  "I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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• Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Europe, Ideas, Trying

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• The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Cutting, Play, Long

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• Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Heart, Creating, Choices

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

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• I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

  Gabrielle Anwar

  Clothes, Want, Being The Best

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• When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

  Samantha Barks

  Girl, Years, Machines

  "Samantha Barks, Eponine In ‘Les Miserables,’ On Winning One Of Hollywood’s Most Coveted Roles". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.

  Clint Black

  Home, Use, Records

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• When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.

  Gavin Bryars

  Jesus, Glasses, Blood

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• How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide.

  Kathleen Battle

  Song, Light, People

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• My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.

  Tom Ford

  Goal, Helping

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• I came up with my own 'Dream Shake' I guess - the white version.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Dream, White, Shakes

  "Dirk Now Highest-Scoring Player Not From U.S". dfw.cbslocal.com. November 12, 2014.

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• Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Moving, Hands, Giving

  Ray Kurzweil (2012). “How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed”, p.180, Penguin

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• American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.

  Chris Hardwick

  Office, Trying, Television

  "Chris Hardwick Reveals Details of BBC America Deal, How Nerdist Podcast Will Be Adapted for TV (Q&A)". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

  Martin Parr

  Trying, Looks, Propaganda

  "The power of sepia - an expert's take on that Madonna image" by Martin Parr, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2009.

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• The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Home, Fighting, Creating

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 8, 2011.

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• If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Winning, Office, Different

  "OMG, You Have to Take 5 Minutes to Read Our Hilarious Interview With New Girl's Jake Johnson!". Interview with Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. June 11, 2012.

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• Although actions speak louder than words, I believe it is our intentions that reveal our soul. Refrain from judging others based solely on their words and actions, and seek to know their deepest intentions so that you can know who they truly aspire to be, and support them in becoming the best version of themselves.

  Hal Elrod

  Believe, Thinking, Becoming The Best

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• Attempting to do anything you haven't done before is always uncomfortable, and usually scary, but it is ALWAYS worth it. Fear disappears in the midst of action, and a better version of yourself awaits you on the other side of your fear. Feel the fear, and do it anyway.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Scary, Sides

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Aug 24, 2011

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• This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.

  Rick Warren

  Ideas, Bored, Important

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.27, Zondervan

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• Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.

  Stephen Bayley

  Fashion, Hype, Gathering

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• I love history. I'm very interested by it and I think it's great to have a movie that brings it alive in a way. It's sort of that romanticized version of it.

  Ben Stiller

  Thinking, Alive, Way

  "‘Night at the Museum’: Stiller and Van Dyke Talk Comedy". Hollywood.com interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe that that's worth something, worth someone else's time. It's the most I have to offer the world.

  Jami Attenberg

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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• "Mad Men" - it seems like they try to capture this glamorized version of the '50s and '60s advertising culture.

  Geoffrey Gray

  Men, Mad, Trying

  "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.

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