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• I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

  Melanie Lynskey

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• The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

  Oliver Lodge

  Personality, Facts, Fit

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• Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

  Ricardo Lagos

  Poverty, Crosses, Frontiers

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• The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

  Richard Linklater

  Interesting, Gone, Film

  ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.

  Sheryl Lee

  Important, Directors, Stories

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

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• As people get older, they get married, have kids. I'm not married. I don't have kids, so I'm able to focus 100 percent on this.

  Steven Lopez

  Kids, People, Focus

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• I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off.' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on.

  Alex Meraz

  Film, Scene, Shirts

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• I like being able to be a man.

  Anson Mount

  Men, Be A Man

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

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• I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through me, and help me create work that is bigger than I would have ever been able to have done alone.

  Rebecca Wells

  Believe, Humble, Done

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• I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.

  James Mangold

  People, Lucky, Awful

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• I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.

  Bernie Mac

  Gun, Discipline, Clean

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

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• Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Genius, Decent, Andrea

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• Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

  Ella Maillart

  Literature

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• I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.

  Ethel Merman

  Care, Angry, Known

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.

  Cecily Brown

  Cat, Boredom, Want

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• I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

  Allison Williams

  Successful, College, Parent

  "Beautiful Minds: 10 Inspiring, Always-Stylish Women". www.elle.com. March 21, 2012.

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• At 15 I had moved out of my parents' place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Parent, Acting, Wanted

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• I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

  Sam Waterston

  Heads Up, Stills

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• For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

  Mo Yan

  Country, Army, Boys

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• But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

  Dennis Brown

  Sound, Momentum, Definitions

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• When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as both of us stood there crying, 'I wish I could just take Iowa to the East Coast. That would be the best of all worlds.' Of course, I couldn't. I have the best of all worlds now by being at Rutgers, being in this part of the country and being able to embrace and receive the great prestige that is part of the Big Ten.

  C. Vivian Stringer

  Country, Iowa, Decision

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• It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.

  James Purefoy

  Taken, Long, Cameras

  "One From The Archives: James Purefoy". Interview with Rankin, www.hungertv.com. January 12, 2014.

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• Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.

  Jenn Proske

  Goal, Want, Rich

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

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• Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Fate, Men

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• I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.

  Rod Stewart

  Song, Honest, Seems

  "Rod Stewart: 'I thought songwriting had left me'" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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