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• Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much. Let the reader bring his own sexuality into the text. A writer I usually admire has written about sex in the most off-putting way. There is just too much information.

  Toni Morrison

  Sexy, Writing, Too Much Information

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• Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

  Samuel Barnett

  Queens, Moving, Order

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• I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.

  Lou Doillon

  Girl, Trying, Nina

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• Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Warrior, Peaceful, Culture

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• Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.

  Willis Regier

  Rivals, Favors, Welcome

  Willis Goth Regier (2007). “In Praise of Flattery”, p.4, U of Nebraska Press

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• In poor environment, I find great inspiration. Many of the men and women whom I admire as artists, the things they write, the songs they sing, the admission is filled with inspired moments to overcome oppression.

  Harry Belafonte

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

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• We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humorous, Humanity, Genius

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.462, Modern Library

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• As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Crazy, Pride, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a level of strength and character that few of us can imagine; a grace under pressure that few of us will ever attain. It's why an Olympic gold medal would not have made us love or admire her more.

  Peggy Fleming

  Character, Grace, Gold

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• 'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

  John Milton

  Book, Paradise, Down And

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.36

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• At some point you realize, I have dreams. I would love to be working on wonderful roles, in wonderful films, with people I respect and admire. And that will come in its time. In the meantime, "Pay attention to your work. Get better at what you do." That's my job.

  Ann Dowd

  Dream, Jobs, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• We all have our own paths. That's the important thing of this movie. God's waiting there for everybody. Be true to who you are and true to your values - not to media, not to the influence of friends necessarily or people even that you admire. Be true to your heart and you'll find that path.

  Corbin Bernsen

  Heart, Media, People

  "Writer-director Corbin Bernsen finds a well-matched creative partner in 'Christian Mingle'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. February 2015.

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• Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor.

  John Steinbeck

  Kings, Hero, Writing

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath”, p.21, Penguin

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• Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

  Samuel Smiles

  Riches, Claims, Distinction

  Samuel Smiles (1800). “Thrift”, p.314

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• You cannot have fun with anything that you don't love or admire or respect.

  Mel Brooks

  Fun, Having Fun

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• We admire the castles, because we admire the security!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Castles, Security

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• When summer is over, winter becomes sad too, because opposites often admire each other secretly!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Summer, Winter, Opposites

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• Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

  Seneca the Younger

  Speak, Guides

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• I love being on camera. And I love knowing what's going on in the world. Diane Sawyer is my favorite. She never seems to lower herself to get the job done. She just always carries herself well. I really admire her.

  Carrie Underwood

  Jobs, Love Is, Knowing

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• But the people I admire have always been people like Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson and Jack Lemmon.

  Evan Jones

  People, Brando, Nicholson

  Source: collider.com

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• I really admire police officers, surgeons, or anyone who works in high stressed situations.

  Yasmin Paige

  Police, Stressed, Situation

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what you're investigating.

  Katia Winter

  Interesting, Gossip, Profession

  Source: collider.com

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• I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most. Maybe he's not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the 'ideal.' Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount.

  Xabi Alonso

  Football, Home, Player

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

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• Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

  Budd Schulberg

  Papa, Far Away, Plans

  Budd Schulberg (2012). “Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game”, p.19, Open Road Media

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