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• I understand the rules of Superman - not necessarily better than anyone else - but better than a normal filmmaker would. After doing 'Watchmen' and digging that deep into the why of superheroes, when Superman is presented to you, I felt like I was in a unique position to say 'I get this guy. I know what this is.

  Zack Snyder

  Unique, Superhero, Guy

  "Zack Snyder on 'Watchmen' legacy as 'the anti-"Avengers" movie'". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. November 12, 2012.

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• You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.

  Benjamin Carson

  Self Confidence, Brain, Needs

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• To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Team, Winning

  "Leftovers from Tom Brady interview" by Field Yates, www.espn.com. May 23, 2013.

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• Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

  Bono

  Country, Thinking, Wealth

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• Someone is digging your grave right now.

  Richard Siken

  Graves, Right Now

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• Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

  Iris DeMent

  Trying, Corporations, Information

  "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.

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• I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Digging A Hole, Rest Of Life, Holes

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Twisted”, p.31, Scholastic UK

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• Betrayal was a stone beneath a mattress of thr bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

  Jodi Picoult

  Betrayal, Forgiving, Stones

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• We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

  William James

  Effort, Littles, Forget

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.62, Nuvision Pubns

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• Why couldn't she have this, just enjoy this, without creating obstacles, digging up problems, worrying about mistakes, about tomorrow's? Why let the maybe's, the what if's, the probabilities spoil something so lovely?

  Nora Roberts

  Mistake, Creating, Worry

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• Shaunee was digging in her purse like she'd misplaced a tube of one of MAC's seasonal lipsticks that you buy and fall in love with AND THEN THEY DISCONTINUE IT BECAUSE THEY REALLY HATE US AND WANT US TO BE CRAZY.

  P. C. Cast

  Falling In Love, Hate, Crazy

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Destined”, p.266, Macmillan

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• The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth. That bridle's her curse, this island her prison. She still smells of rot.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Islands, Smell

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.98, Scholastic UK

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• What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sacrifice, Evil, Misunderstood

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• Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Remember, Holes, Bottom

  Carolyn Mackler (2009). “Love and Other Four-Letter Words”, p.184, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Research, Firsts, Film

  Esquire, August 1970.

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• By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

  Leo Tolstoy

  Soul, Might, Unnoticed

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• But it's a whole lot easier to keep[secrets] when you've got someone else who knows breathing in the same room. Carrying them alone is like having a huge spiky weight digging into your shoulders and chest, a weight you can't shift even while you're sleeping.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Sleep, Breathing, Secret

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• The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.

  Charles James

  Long, Design, Process

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• Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He won't mind, I though, as I realized I'd drawn blood. And sure enough, he didn't. "Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want.

  Charlaine Harris

  Letting Go, Blood, Hands

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead”, p.113, Penguin

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• My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Done, Graves

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.326, Hachette UK

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• I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Thinking, Order, Creative

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• I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.

  David Grossman

  Writing, Character, Reality

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• I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough.

  Charlaine Harris

  Struggle, Men, Hands

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.864, Penguin

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• I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.

  Susan Orlean

  Dedication, Tunnels, Vines

  "Prune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2010.

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• Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.

  Paul Brunton

  Perseverance, Healing, Heart

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton”, Larson Publication

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