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• I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

  Helen McCrory

  Lying, Sleep, Feel Better

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Writing, Attachment

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• Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Book, Writing, Building

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• Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

  Steven Wright

  Night, Gambling, People

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• Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at.

  Steven Wright

  People, Laughing, Stills

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• I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

  will.i.am

  Mom, Dad, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.

  Neil Young

  Country, Rights, Years

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• I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Money, Motivation

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• Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, Men, Priorities

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 09, 2005.

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• In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Pages, Use, World

  "Letter From Mark Zuckerberg". Letter to Facebook's shareholders, www.sec.gov. February 1, 2012.

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• Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Games, Nerves, Lasts

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• I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.

  Felicia Day

  Coffee, People, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

  Alber Elbaz

  Moving, Creating, Desire

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• From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator.

  Helen Fisher

  Believe, Fall, People

  "Finding and Keeping the Love of Your Life". Article by Helen Fisher, www.oprah.com. February, 2009.

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• I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Numbers, Lists, Fans

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• I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

  Tucker Max

  Artist, Want, Periods

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• I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

  Caitlin Moran

  Book, Eight, Play

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• I have more energy to run after our four children. Weight loss and great skin were a bonus!

  Niecy Nash

  Running, Children, Loss

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• Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car.

  Christopher Moore

  Whales, Car, Police

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• She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Morning, School, Feet

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything... I've lost everything three or four times. A perfect place to start.

  Jim Stovall

  Perfect, Three, Lost Everything

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• He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Believe, Quality, World

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “O Grande Gatsby: The Great Gatsby: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.174, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Fools Day

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 21, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Prayer, Honesty, Practice

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• ..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Gentleman

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