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• Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

  Frank Herbert

  Hate, Thought Provoking, Innovation

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.201, Penguin

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• Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

  Jasper Fforde

  Comedy, Genre, Dangerous

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• I wanted to write you a story about magic. I wanted rabbits appearing from hats. I wanted balloons lifting you into the sky. It turned out to be nothing but sadness, war, heartbreak. You never saw it, but there’s a garden inside me.

  Shane Jones

  War, Sadness, Writing

  Shane Jones (2010). “Light Boxes: A Novel”, p.54, Penguin

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• Don’t mind me,” I said. “I’m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.” “No, you diddn’t,” Abby said, appearing on the roof. She was wearing a trim suit and tall black boots. Her hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail at the nape of her neck, and either i was imagining things or Townsend wasn’t quite as good a spy as I thought, because I could have sworn I saw him drool a little. Note to self: your aunt is a hottie.

  Ally Carter

  Aunt, Hair, July

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• Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.

  Milan Kundera

  Long, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• Appearing in 'Legally Blonde' has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off for sitting like a boy, with my legs apart, while wearing a cocktail dress and heels!

  Sheridan Smith

  Girl, Boys, Blonde

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• I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Greek, that's my point.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Easter, Party, Thinking

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.412, Vintage

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• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  Manuel Puig

  Tasks, Language, Tension

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• Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Fire, Two, Bored

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• When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Character, Years, Done

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. July, 2003.

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• Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Rain, Fall, States

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• Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.

  Matthew Lesko

  Educational, Book, Night

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• I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.

  Hugh Laurie

  Hero, Character, House

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Jan 10, 2012

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• Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

  James Joyce

  Romantic, Jesus, Youth

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• We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

  Michael Fassbender

  Silly, Mean, Pressure

  "What's a nice boy like Michael Fassbender doing in a film like Shame?". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

  Julia Roberts

  Dental, Fame, Microscopes

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• At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

  Richard Russo

  Writing, Thinking, Risk

  "Failbetter" Interview, www.failbetter.com.

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• There is no frontier between being and appearing.

  Albert Camus

  Frontiers

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.117, Vintage

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• We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.

  David Levithan

  Life, Should Have, Gone

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.108, Egmont UK

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• It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Persistence, Mind

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Vision, Spirit

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• The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

  Emile Zola

  Fear, Fate, Animal

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• I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

  Amy Winehouse

  Vulnerable, Frightened

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• I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.

  Lawrence Welk

  Order, Practice, Band

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• I don't like my thighs, the back of my legs or my chubby knees. I wear clothes that show off my legs in pictures and videos but not often when I'm appearing live.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Clothes, Video, Legs

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

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