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• You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the bottom of a vase, when you are terribly excited to see them, to talk to them again, having missed them after all that sleep.

  Elliot Perlman

  Sleep, Water, Wake Up

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• Whatever it is, people have issues and that affects you deeply. So you have to get to the bottom of it and not let that affect your life decisions and really understand why you're making the decisions you make so that way you can understand how to not do that, so I always encourage people to ask why and then to really understand you, because that's the only way to be your most successful and your most happy.

  Venus Williams

  Successful, People, Decision

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• For me, the best characters are the ones that feel fully formed inside and out, so I try to have a very clear vision of exactly what they would wear, top to bottom, who they are, what their backstory is, what their family situation is, who are their friends, just creating as much of a three-dimensional character [as possible]. Because I think you could do a very broad character, but as long as there's some emotional truth to them you can get away with really crazy things.

  Nick Kroll

  Crazy, Character, Emotional

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.

  Quincy Jones

  Song, Three, World

  "Quincy Jones Recalls 'Freaking Out' at Michael Jackson's Death and His Private Nickname for the Star (Q&A)". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2015.

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• The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

  Jules Shear

  Strings

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• Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

  Henry Adams

  Struggle, Men, Modern

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 28 (1907)

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• I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Dog, Horse, Elephants

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.11

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• Coasting to the bottom is the only disgrace.

  John Popper

  Disgrace

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• On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.

  Harry S. Truman

  Ideas, Tree, Theory

  Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins

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• I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Thinking, Quality, Want

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• I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill.

  George Saunders

  Blow, Giving, Holes

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December”, p.23, A&C Black

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• Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Success, People, Ladders

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• The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

  Martin Scorsese

  Lines, Bottom Line

  "And we're rolling". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2007.

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• He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Christmas, Knees, Toes

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• If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

  Bill Shankly

  Garden, Curtains, Draws

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Sometimes it’s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, ‘Now I have reached the bottom of the pit, now I can fall no further,’ and it is almost a pleasure to wallow in the darkness. The trouble is, it’s not true. There is no end to the evil in ourselves, just as there is no end to the good. It’s a matter of choice. We struggle to climb, or we struggle to fall. The thing is to discover which way we’re going.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Struggle, Fall, Thinking

  Daphne du Maurier (2000). “The Scapegoat”, p.200, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.

  Ted Hughes

  Pain, Voice, Trying

  Ted Hughes, Christopher Reid (2008). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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• Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,” I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at peace, and ask yourself, “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.

  Richard Brautigan

  Beautiful, Lonely, Love You

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

  Rick Riordan

  Love, Cute, Son

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.1196, Penguin UK

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• The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

  Jodi Picoult

  I Love You, Falling In Love, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive

  Sharon Creech

  Alive, Celebration, Understood

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• I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Teaching, Knowledge, Men

  "Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey". Book by Andrew Mango, 1999.

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• I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, Beach, Rain

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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• She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Girl, Heart

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• America was different. America was a river, roarng along, unmindful of the past. I could wade into this river, let my sins drown to the bottom, let the waters carry me someplace far. Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Memories, Past, Rivers

  Marilyn Herbert, Khaled Hosseini (2006). “Book Club in a Box Presents the Discussion Companion for Khaled Hosseini's Novel The Kite Runner”, p.51, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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