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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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• A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with this confidence appearing on my face, I don't panic, otherwise your opponent will know that you are hurt. That's the whole art game in boxing.

  Evander Holyfield

  Art, Hurt, Believe

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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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• 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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• There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

  James D'arcy

  Fun, Real, Drama

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• It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.

  Melody Beattie

  Giving Up, Growing Up, Crazy

  "Treating Codependence: Q&A With Author Melody Beattie". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don’t even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, “What are you trying to teach me?” Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for “False Evidence Appearing Real.” From Everything Belongs, p. 143

  Richard Rohr

  Real, Simple, Emotional

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• My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still there. . . . Do you identify with a distaste/fear about sentimentality? Do you agree that, past a certain line, such distaste can turn everything arch and sneering and too ironic? Or do you have your own set of abstract questions to drive yourself nuts with?

  David Foster Wallace

  Strong, Fighting, Past

  "David Foster Wallace" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. September 29, 2008.

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• One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Risk, Likelihood

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• It would take more than long-stemmed roses to change my view that you're a despicable cowardy custard and a disgrace to a proud family. Your ancestors fought in the Crusades and were often mentioned in despatches, and you cringe like a salted snail at the thought of appearing as Santa Claus before an audience of charming children who wouldn't hurt a fly. It's enough to make an aunt turn her face to the wall and give up the struggle.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Hurt, Children, Giving Up

  P. G. Wodehouse (1994). “The Theatre Omnibus”, Hutchinson Radius

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• storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Planning, Disappear

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.49, NYU Press

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• Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

  Noel Coward

  Television

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.585, Vintage

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• Originally I had a block about appearing in a musical. I went to a voice teacher for a while, but that did no good. My range is about one and a half notes. I ended up talking the musical numbers, which was revolutionary at the time. The lyrics are extremely intricate. They move along like a precisely acted scene. If you miss a word - heaven help you - the orchestra rattles past like an express train, and you've got to run like the devil to catch up.

  Rex Harrison

  Running, Teacher, Block

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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