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• No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

  Terry Pratchett

  Moon, Men, Want

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Law, Might, Taste

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm just full of surprises." Watching her, he waved the wrapped bar from side to side. "You can have the candy if you sit on my lap." That sounds like something perverted old men say to young, stupid girls." I'm not old, and you're not stupid." He sat, patted his knee. "It's Belgian chocolate." Just because I'm sitting on your lap and eating your candy doesn't mean you can cop a feel," she said as she folded into his lap.

  Nora Roberts

  Girl, Stupid, Mean

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• 'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

  Ellie Goulding

  Dad, Long, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.

  Ina Garten

  Dinner, Drink, Upbeat

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

  David Duchovny

  Ideas, Sound, Needs

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• When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

  Harlan Coben

  Blessing, You Re Pretty, Asks

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• It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

  Frank A. Clark

  Inspirational, Good Luck, Looks

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• From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

  Raymond Chandler

  Funny, Women, Class

  "The High Window". Book by Raymond Chandler, 1942.

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• When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.

  Sarah Brightman

  Cat, Auditions, Records

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• After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

  Monica Bellucci

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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• We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

  Clive Bell

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

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• Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Laughing, Feelings, Use

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• Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the distant past. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about every day, too many new things we have to learn. New styles, new information, new technology, new terminology ... But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone. And for me, what happened in the woods that day is one of these.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, War, Struggle

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2002.

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• Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

  Henry Miller

  Cities, Giving, Imagination

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.257, New Directions Publishing

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• I think most Israelis prefer not to know. So for them, texts about the occupation are like something that's been written in a foreign language that they can't understand. If they want, you can translate it to them. But it is their choice. In general, though, I think Israelis don't want to know. Very few do. Basically, I write to the converted.

  Amira Hass

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

  Jodi Picoult

  Tolerance, Enough, Live And Let Live

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• What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Libertarian Party, Long

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Children, Wind, Spiders

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• If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

  Lori Lansens

  About Yourself, Ifs

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Wife's Tale”, p.176, Knopf Canada

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• I could not understand how people could not like something as beautiful as the aerodrome. But I had lately become convinced that in general people were pretty boring. They liked to moan for hours on end about how hard it was to make ends meet, about the money they owed, the price of food, and other similar worries, but the minute some more brilliant or attractive subject come up, they were struck deaf.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Beautiful, People, Worry

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• For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Should Have, Should

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• I do love to shop. But I'm a social shopper. I like to do it while hanging out with my friends. Some of them hate shopping because they treat it like something you have to plan, like a grocery list. But if I'm out and I pass a store, I just pop in.

  Nicole Richie

  Hate, Shopping, Lists

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

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• Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

  Bill Nighy

  Doe, Way, West

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• The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

  Joni Mitchell

  Daughter, Mother, Waiting

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