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• I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

  Christopher Hampton

  Done, Film, Ifs

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• I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show.

  Ricki Lake

  Baby, Dna, Want

  "Ricki Lake Delivers Maternal Health Awareness" by Eleanor Goldberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2011.

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• Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.

  Evan Davis

  Struggle, Views, Hands

  "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Journey, Imagination

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• The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the leading Christians for our cues. We want to emulate the best known preachers with the biggest sanctuaries and the grandest edifices. Preoccupation with these values has perverted the church's message.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religion, Church

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• My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

  Robert Cormier

  Dream, Sweet, Book

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• Because I'm so known as a meat-chef, when I talk about Meatless Monday some people look at me like I've lost my mind. I'm like, look, I'm not saying beef and pork is bad, I love it and I eat it six days a week.

  Michael Symon

  Monday, People, Mind

  "Meat Man Michael Symon Does Meatless Monday (Really!)". Interview with Peggy Neu, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Quilts, Book, People

  Jennifer Chiaverini (2011). “The Quilter's Legacy: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.

  Patrick Duffy

  Son, College, Done

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• Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.

  Michael Gove

  Home, Heart, Mean

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• My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when. I never learned or studied the craft, formally. I grew up doing martial arts and playing piano. But, something inside of me always said that I was going to do this, as far back as I can remember.

  Laz Alonso

  Art, Piano, Crafts

  "Laz Alonso talks James Cameron's AVATAR - Could it be the first of a Trilogy?". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 5, 2009.

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• Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

  Bob Barr

  Beautiful, Country, Gun

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• I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

  Colin Baker

  Doctors, Facts, Kind

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• Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne, Some day hidden Truth be known; Some day - some sweet day.

  John L. Bates

  Sweet, Thrones, Truth Is

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• I feel like I want to be known first and foremost for my work.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Want, Firsts, Feels

  Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com.

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• I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

  Beverly Cleary

  Childhood

  "Beverly Cleary at 95: A Talk With the Author Who Created Ramona Quimby". Interview with Rachel Brown, www.theatlantic.com. July 6, 2011.

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• Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

  David Amram

  Black And White, Portraits, Village

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• George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.

  Ray Comfort

  Quiet People, Thinker, People

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• I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful.

  Tom Conti

  Father, Wonderful, Nina

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• I know who I am as an artist. I've always known who I am as an artist.

  Lee DeWyze

  Artist, Who I Am, Knows

  "Lee DeWyze on new album, new 'Idol'". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. December 7, 2010.

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• My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

  Alexander Downer

  Father, Names, House

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

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• I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee.

  Edward Dmytryk

  Party, Long, People

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• I don't think Wisconsin should become known as a state where we shoot cats.

  Jim Doyle

  Cat, Thinking, Wisconsin

  "Wisconsin Gov. Dampens Cat Hunting Hopes". www.foxnews.com. April 13, 2005.

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• Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Identity, Mcdreamy, Lost

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• If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Mean, Atoms, Nuclear

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.61, Princeton University Press

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