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• I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.

  Kate McKinnon

  Real, Talking, Voice

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

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• While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in magazines, to get an "A," as though poetry could be graded. I wish I had been more patient and less frantic about getting published.

  Denise Duhamel

  Winning, Wish, Magazines

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it's driven by this kind of frantic race against time. And whilst that creates a huge amount of tension and problems, it's a tension that I think I feed off.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Thinking, Numbers, Race

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". www.wbur.org. October 08, 2015.

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• Mindfulness has never been more important considering how the events of the world move in such an accelerated, frantic time. Our attention goes from here to the next thing to the next thing, and we're triggered from one response of fear to one of connection to the threat of loss.

  Barnet Bain

  Moving, Loss, Important

  "Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• By the next one [albom],Occupation: Foole, I was right back into the trip again. I'm more frantic, more breathless. You can hear how sick I am. If you want to see a cokehead, just look at the pictures on the Occupation: Foole album.

  George Carlin

  Sick, Albums, Looks

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections

  Paul Johnson

  Running, America, Leader

  Paul Johnson (1991). “Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When my life does get frantic and busy, there's always time to fit something in, even if it means getting up 15 minutes earlier. I get out of bed, do a few Asanas and then do a little bit of mediation. I just structure it into the day. It's really, really simple.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Mean, Simple, Bed

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

  Edna Ferber

  Frustration, Clouds, Irritation

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• When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determined to tell the truth, represents, at best, a guess. There have been times in my life when I felt incredibly happy. Life was full. I seemed productive. Then I thought,"Am I really happy or am I merely masking a deep depression with frantic activity?" If I don't know such basic things about myself, who does?

  Phyllis Rose

  Truth, Happy Life, Doe

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• Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Writing, Silence

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly or La Vie en Rose. And I love my role in Frantic.

  Emmanuelle Seigner

  Nice, Butterfly, Rose

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• Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

  Tucker Max

  People, Defense, Psychological

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• I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

  Simon Schama

  Thinking, Space, People

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• To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Jamaica, Class, White

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.125, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The truth is despite the hard work and juggling required to keep the different facets of the frantic life afloat, the "superwoman"has one marvelous compensation. Being busy and being seen to be busy lets you off the hook. Buys you a way out of all aspects of your many roles you secretly despiselike cleaning cupboardsor entertaining your husband's business friends. When you combine wife, mother, career and all, each role become the perfect excuse for avoiding the worst aspects of the other.

  Bettina Arndt

  Mother, Husband, Work

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• The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.

  Gina Barreca

  Cat, Humor, Facts

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• That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so.

  Riane Eisler

  Christian, War, Women

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• The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship, a shift which will occur gradually over many long years, and in which a child needs not only the support of child allies engaged in the same struggle but also the understanding of his parents.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Friends, Children, Struggle

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• I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

  Milan Kundera

  Desire, Way, Feels

  "Farewell Waltz: A Novel". Book by Milan Kundera, 1976.

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• As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed a mania; everyone of means was frantic to possess a thing so controllable, so secure and so free from the dust and danger of the road, and in France in the year 1943 thirty thousand of these new aeroplanes were manufactured and licensed, and soared humming softly into the sky.

  H. G. Wells

  Mean, Air, Dust

  H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.3227, e-artnow

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• Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.

  Adam Phillips

  Lovers, Wonder, Analysts

  Adam Phillips (2016). “On Flirtation”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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• Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will be defended with a frantic intolerance that has a parallel only in the bigotry of the darkest Middle Ages. If one does not accept evolution as an infallible dogma, implicitly and without question, one is regarded as an unenlightened ignoramus or is merely ignored as an obscurantist or a naive, uncritical fundamentalist.

  Alfred M. Rehwinkel

  Age, Doe, Ignored

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• Men would make love with any number of women ... even total strangers, while females were selective. They were catering to the demands of one small egg. While males had millions of frantic sperms screaming: "Let us out, let us out!".

  Woody Allen

  Men, Eggs, Numbers

  Husbands and Wives, www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

  Fisher Ames

  Fire, Historical, Democracy

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• I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent hoping I'll write a book or novella for them. Things change. A rejection slip today might mean a frantic call to your agent in six months.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Book, Writing, Mean

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