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• Years ago when I was in a cover band and we were playing dances, that was quite a different thing. You were there as part of an event. When you're a songwriter, you are the event. So it's a little bit of a different focus.

  Andy Wilkinson

  Writing, Years, Focus

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• Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the Ferris wheel. It's not the best seat in the house, but you see enough lights, action, people, and confusion to make you wonder if anybody knows what the hell's going on. If you're sitting out front, of course, it all rolls along as smoothly as a German train schedule, but as Willie, like any great magician, would be the first to point out, the real show is never in the center ring. As Willie always says, Fortunately, we're not in control.

  Kinky Friedman

  Running, Real, Light

  Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.104, Macmillan

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• I definitely still have ... angst but I also wrote some songs that say it's okay to love, now. I'm happy in my life, and it's a bit easier to write happy songs when you are actually happy.

  Miranda Lambert

  Song, Writing, Easier

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• A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Crazy, People

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.

  Alan Cumming

  Depression, Fog, Talking

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• Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.

  Janet C. Long

  Depression, Crazy, Littles

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• Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are remarkable. They're explorers, travelers beyond the rim of consciousness. Not surprising if they pick up a few bugs and get sick. That's all it is, madness. Mad just means sick. If you get fluid on the lungs it's pleurisy. If it's fluid on the brain, it's insanity.

  Clare Boylan

  Depression, Mean, Yesterday

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• I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.

  Rachel Bilson

  Hair, Europe, Envy

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• Congressional investigations...are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite a bit of interest... Since most of the material presented to the committee is classified, the hearings are never printed.

  William Hanes Ayres

  Flying, Hearing, Problem

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• For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. But there are also things — harmful attitudes, superstitions, emotions — that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

  Earl Nightingale

  Life, Motivational, Attitude

  "How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Part IV".

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• The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Special, Littles

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 55, 1799.

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• Take what's useful, leave out what's useless, and add a bit of yourself!

  Manuel Neuer

  Add, Useless

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

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• I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved.

  Sundar Pichai

  Secret, Add, Four

  "New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans For World's Most Popular Mobile Os". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. May 13, 2013.

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• I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.

  Christopher A. Sims

  Thinking, People, Littles

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• I know this is a bit redundant, but it is really hard to explain just how loud Tiger Stadium is when you're standing on the field. The crowd is moving and swaying so much, and in so many directions, it makes the stands look blurry, like a pointillist painting.

  Wright Thompson

  Moving, Lsu, Crowds

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• SeLF censorsHIP?
  Not my strong suit...I dont want to be a total d o u c h e b a g , but a little bit of one.

  Misha Collins

  Strong, Self, Want

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• I was pretty much a homebody; didn't really go to school dances, never went to a prom. I was a bit of a loner, a geek.

  Michael Rosenbaum

  School, Loner, Geek

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

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• You don't want to seem too eager, too romantic - otherwise, it just looks a bit try-hard. But I do think that a first date should be intimate. So I'd choose a nice dinner somewhere cozy, not too crowded, with good wine.

  Kit Harington

  Nice, Wine, Thinking

  "Game of Thrones Star Kit Harington Talks Swordplay, Show Details, and Dating (P.S. He Likes Girls Who Eat!)". "Glamour" Interview, www.glamour.com. March 27, 2013.

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• Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Skeptic, Believer

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• I feel like little bits of my soul are being shipped domestically.

  Chris Colfer

  Soul, Littles, Feels

  "Chris Colfer Shipping 'Bits Of My Soul' With His Novel". Interview with Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. July 16, 2012.

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• I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of questions. It all kind of formed a story in my head, and I really wanted to be a published author when I was 10, but I had a hard time writing a novel when I was 10. So I decided to wait until I was little bit older and then get it done.

  Chris Colfer

  Mom, Writing, Kids

  "Chris Colfer Shipping 'Bits Of My Soul' With His Novel". Interview with Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Of course when you spend four hours in prosthetic makeup and you really are looking at yourself and you see how revolting you've become in a way, it obviously adds another strand and helps you... a little bit more.

  Gerard Butler

  Makeup, Add, Four

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• At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it. In warm conditions, though, it started to slip off my face. Other times they used this double-sided sticky tape, and I literally couldn't get it off my face. I would feel like I was ripping my face off and I had a lot of cuts and bruises because of it-huge red marks. People might think it was method acting.

  Gerard Butler

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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• I'm proud of the fact that I'm at a point in my career that if I want to take a little bit of a left turn and make an album that is more hushed, more acoustic and more personal, that I can do it.

  Kenny Chesney

  Careers, Albums, Want

  "Kenny Chesney escapes to the islands". www.today.com. January 26, 2005.

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• I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that?

  Kyan Douglas

  Brother, Gay, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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