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• I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

  Bea Arthur

  Roles, Movement, Pressure

  TV Legends, August 6, 2005.

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• If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

  Richard Russo

  Betrayal, Mean, Careers

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• You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television.

  Marc Maron

  Character, Growth, Television

  "Marc Maron Off-Screen". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2015.

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• We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Miracle, Mystery, Inscrutable

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• I love drama. I love to play an arc.

  Dee Wallace

  Drama, Play, Love Drama

  Interview with James Wood, gojimmygo.net. April 13, 2012.

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• Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body, I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!

  Joan of Arc

  Soul, Tears, Say Anything

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• Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Looks

  Mark Twain (2016). “Joan of Arc”, p.192, Ignatius Press

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• Final Execution is Wolverine's spotlight arc. He goes through a crazy thing here. I think the fear with him is that he's in so many books that his growth can become stagnant. He ends this story in a very different place.

  Rick Remender

  Crazy, Book, Thinking

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• People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

  Will Self

  Thinking, People, Fiction

  "Life Is Difficult But Rewarding Under This 'Umbrella'". "Weekend Edition" with Rachel Martin, www-s4.npr.org. January 13, 2013.

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• The only way for white folks to reclaim the full arc of their humanity, the full trajectory of their ethical content, of their ethical identity, is to surrender the white innocence that prevents them from being fully mature.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  White, Humanity, Identity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

  Talib Kweli

  Careers, Focus, Looks

  "Talib Kweli: Rap not 'talent-based game right now'". Interview with Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

  Ezra Pound

  Views, Saint, Martyr

  Interview with Edd Johnson in The Chicago Sun, May 9, 1945.

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• I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.

  Anne Lamott

  Fighter, Shame, Sand

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, Anchor

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• Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

  Dean Koontz

  Beautiful, Grace, World

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.3, Bantam

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• The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Stars, Lying, Fall

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural references were the sign of a colonized mind.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Hero, Kids, Mind

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• When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

  Eli Roth

  Directors, Stories, Television

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• Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.

  Francoise Sagan

  Way, Film, Convinced

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• The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.

  Rob Bell

  Stories, Passionate, Fundamentals

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• It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.

  Mark Hoppus

  Real, Character, Challenges

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• It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.

  Kevin Spacey

  Athlete, Character, Night

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• In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.

  Chris Zylka

  Two, Television, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.

  Steven Morrissey

  Know How, Knows, Felt

  Steven Patrick Morrissey (2016). “Autobiografía”, p.228, Malpaso Ediciones SL

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• He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs; another poured ice-white foam so thick that Harry thought it would have supported his weight if he'd cared to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds hovering over the surface of the water. Harry amused himself for a while turning the taps on and off, particularly enjoying the effect of one whose jet bounced off the surface of the water in large arcs.

  J. K. Rowling

  Football, Clouds, Blue

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• She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold and the immense silence of the North.

  Philip Pullman

  Silence, Riding, Aurora

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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