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• The more lines I have, in general, the worse a movie is. It's very rare that I get say great things in fantastic movies. So if you see me as like, number one on a call sheet? In general, that movie is pretty bad.

  Matthew Lillard

  Numbers, Fantastic, Sheets

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• Everybody has a line. It doesn't matter how you're dressed onstage or what you say in your songs, that doesn't give anybody the right to invade your personal space.

  Lzzy Hale

  Song, Space, Giving

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.

  Anjelica Huston

  Looks, Mouths, Shapes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.

  Arthur Lismer

  Moving, Lakes, Waterfalls

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• Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Shapes, May, Patterns

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• The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct. The artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints.

  Hans Hartung

  Freedom, Artist, Ideas

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• There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.

  Alfred Noyes

  Distance, Sea, Sky

  Alfred Noyes (1928). “Ballads and Poems”, Blackwood, W

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• The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

  George Packer

  Age, Invisibility, Digital

  "Where Have All the Workers Gone?" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2014.

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• When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.

  Courtney Milan

  Acceptance, Safety, Discomfort

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• To larger sight, the rim of shadow is the line of light.

  Thomas William Parsons

  Light, Sight, Shadow

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• I wanted to start a menswear line of slim-fitting, luxury cashmere jumpers in a range of great colors. I know these jumpers will become season-less staples in my own wardrobe. Cashmere and silk printed scarves and hand-beaded T-shirts compliment the line and form a solid foundation for the collection to grow next season.

  Matthew Williamson

  Hands, Color, Luxury

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• All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Mind, Purpose

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.78, Booklassic

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• Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Choices, Mind

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 21 (1907)

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• Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades — I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Lying, Fishing, Stupidity

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• During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Simple, Discovery, Years

  "Talks with Edison". Harper's Magazine, Volume 80, February 1890.

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• Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.

  Fanny Kemble

  Christmas, Shopping, Broken

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• If I go back to the beginning, I could start it over again. I could go line by line; try and find a shorter way. I could try to make it... better.

  David Auburn

  Trying, Way, Ifs

  "Proof". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I would never design anything. I just think that's kind of wack. I hated every rapper fashion line that ever came out, you know what I'm saying? I would never try.

  Danny Brown

  Fashion, Thinking, Rapper

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com.

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• George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.

  Gideon Haigh

  Sports, War, Greatness

  Gideon Haigh (2010). “Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents”, p.197, Victory Books

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• Everything you say; every thought you entertain; and everything you do has a direction, which serves as an advance or a retreat in respect to your pursuit of excellence. Everything, regardless of size or intent, has bottom-line consequences; therefore, everything counts - this is the golden rule of excellence.

  Gary Ryan

  Excellence, Golden, Retreat

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• Because in this world, there is a line: on one side are the men who cannot get things done, and on the other side are the men who can. And not one in a hundred will cross that line. Will you?

  Aravind Adiga

  Men, Done, World

  Aravind Adiga (2011). “Last Man in Tower”, p.229, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I believe in serendipity, but I also believe there are times when you have to be the one who lines up everything so it can fall into place.

  Susan Stroman

  Believe, Fall, Serendipity

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• New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who also happens to be the 10th richest person in America, with a personal fortune of some $18 billion, likes to pick a fight - especially fights where the line between good and evil is particularly stark.

  Jeff Goodell

  New York, Fighting, Cities

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• I'd love to do a fashion label in the future. I've been thinking a lot recently about maybe making a line of little dresses, so maybe one day.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Fashion, Thinking, One Day

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• Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

  Mary Roach

  Space, Sublime, Ridiculous

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars”, p.11, Oneworld Publications

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