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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I never think about the next movie. I always think about the situation I'm in now, but you do think about an arc someone can go. I love Johnny Depp, I love "Pirates of the Caribbean", but I never wanted to play the same character over and over again.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Alex Pettyfer On Set Interview I AM NUMBER FOUR". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "7 Days: Franken on Franken, Air America, “Senator Maddow” & More". Interview with Mark Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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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• For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.

  Charles Bukowski

  Ends

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 56, 1975.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Just for fun I flew in huge banking arcs, taking deep breaths, enjoying the feel of my newly weightless hair. The stylist had called it “wind tossed.” If only she knew.

  James Patterson

  Fun, Hair, Wind

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Reading, Avid, Order

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• She (Annabeth) put her hand on my spine, and my skin tingled. I (Percy) moved her fingers to the one spot that grounded me to my mortal life. A thousand volts of electricity seemed to arc through my body.

  Rick Riordan

  Hands, Skins, Body

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• I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Wells, Knows

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fall, Age, Veils

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• Sanchez looked at me and we locked eyes a second too long. There was nothing I could do about it. The signal went out. A moment of clear, silent hostility passed between us as hotly charged and unintentional as a thousand-volt arc through a squirrel.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Squirrels, Long

  Rick Riordan (2000). “The Last King of Texas”, Bantam

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• The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing The way your touch turns into arcs The way you slide into the dark The beating of my open heart You don't know But I'm noticing

  David Levithan

  Heart, Sleep, Dark

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick & Norah - Soundtrack einer Nacht”, p.102, cbj Verlag

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