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• I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.

  Sean Duffy

  Running, Reality, Tv Shows

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• When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

  Charles Dance

  Age

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• In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.

  Griffin Dunne

  Independent, Community, Amy

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty?

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Character, Mean

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• When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

  Viola Davis

  Jobs, School, Thinking

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 18, 2009.

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• I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I've published several books, I've never been able to get a permanent teaching job.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Jobs, Book, Teaching

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• I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

  Paula Fox

  People, Lovely, Kind

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• There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

  Paula Fox

  People, Balance, Different

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• We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.

  Robert Fortune

  Sap, Woods, Way

  Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.85

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• I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.

  Vera Farmiga

  Thinking, Energy, Definitions

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• You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.

  Will Friedle

  Nice, Voice, Body

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• It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.

  David Graeber

  People, Democracy, Together

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• I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

  Emily Giffin

  Perfect, Trying, Impossible

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• There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

  Jan Garbarek

  Jazz, Moved, Involved

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• If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe.

  Jeff Gannon

  Believe, White, Issues

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2005.

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• We've all seen great actors and actresses who are missing a certain chemistry. And it's not about getting along or not getting along.

  Johnny Galecki

  Missing, Actors, Actresses

  "'The Big Bang Theory' Cast On Being Part of an Ensemble". Backstage Interview, www.backstage.com. November 29, 2012.

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• I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.

  Lori Greiner

  Thinking, Good Things, Can Do

  "20 Great Quotes From 'Shark Tank' Investors Barbara Corcoran And Lori Greiner" by John Brandon, www.businessinsider.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Smart, Moving, Hard Work

  "Food, fear and business success". Interview with Jessica Ravitz, www.cnn.com. December 30, 2009.

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• The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

  Marc Almond

  Hands, Russia, People

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• I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

  Megan Abbott

  Thinking, Age, Said

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• You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

  Monica Ali

  Running, Assuming, Life Is

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• On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.

  Wes Anderson

  Order, Way, Foxes

  "Cannes 2012: Wes Anderson on Making 'Moonrise Kingdom' and His Cannes Debut". Interview with Gregg Kilday, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.

  Barbara Broccoli

  Hero, Character, Thinking

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• A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

  David Benioff

  Writing, Character, Luxury

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• What we do to ourselves to look a certain way is crazy.

  Emily Browning

  Crazy, Looks, Way

  "Emily Browning: total control". Interview With Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.

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