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• Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Men, Behaviour, Institutions

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• Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

  Roger Ebert

  Needs, Categories

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.608, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.

  Joan Didion

  Powerful, Book, Reading

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• When you happy ,you get locked in sleep. You get sleepy happy. I always wanna be on point. I always wanna be aware.

  DMX

  Sleep, Sleepy

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• I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay.

  Sloane Crosley

  Writing, Two, Voice

  "Book Talk: Sloane Crosley hits brothels and clowns in new essays". Interview with Belinda Goldsmith, www.reuters.com. June 23, 2010.

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• I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no-one else can make them.

  John le Carre

  Book, Rights, Decision

  "John le Carré at the NFT". Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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• I'm not locked into playing one guy.

  Jeff Bridges

  Guy

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• Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

  Danny Boyle

  Imagination, Hatred, Majority

  "IGN Interviews Danny Boyle". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them – the career dads, the responsible and diligent moms – and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Mom, Sweet, Couple

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Lunar Park”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as i pass. sweet tulips nod their heads in rest; i kneel in prayer to seek gods best. for round my garden a fence stands firm to guard my heart so i can learn who should enter, and who should wait on the other side of my locked gate. i clasp the key around my neck and wonder if the time is yet. if i unlocked the gate today, would you come in? or run away?

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Running, Sweet, Prayer

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• I remember times when I was at shows and the person onstage locked eyes with me. And in that moment, everything was right with the world. I think that's part of my job, to create these thousands of moments every night. And for the rest of their life, they can say, 'You guys looked at me,' or 'You sweated on me,' or 'I got your gum.'

  Joan Jett

  Jobs, Eye, Night

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• Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Wine, Men

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• Just my luck,' sighed the endolg. 'Twenty million people in the Realm and I get locked up with a wuss.

  Herbie Brennan

  People, Luck, Twenties

  Herbie Brennan (2011). “The Purple Emperor: Faerie Wars II”, p.134, A&C Black

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• If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

  Jesse Ventura

  Power, Minnesota, Locked Up

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• I used to attract a lot of feeders. I'd be quite happy to be locked in someone's flat and fed liquidised burgers.

  Johnny Vegas

  Burgers, Used, Feds

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• If someone were to say seriously, "I'm divine," she'd have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying "I'm God." But because I'm funny about it, they haven't locked me up yet. And I don't give myself airs, either.

  Bette Midler

  Air, People, Giving

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• The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.

  Eric Ries

  Jobs, Play, Keys

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• I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.

  Robert Redford

  Character, Actors, Kind

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  People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

  Paul Newman

  Marriage, Doors, People

  "Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures". Book edited by Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac, October 19, 2006.

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• An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.

  Ian MacKaye

  Mean, Angel, Doors

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• Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

  Eric Liu

  Zero, Loss, Games

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• I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.

  Anne Lamott

  Beach, Doors, Car

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.6, Penguin

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• Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Long, Would Be, Natural Instinct

  "Saturday interview: Aung San Suu Kyi". Interview with Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2011.

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• I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.

  Leo Kottke

  Fun, Thinking, Trying

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• Hey, moose!” I screamed. The Set animal locked its glowing eyes one me. Well done! Horus said. Now we’ll both die with honor! Shut up, I thought.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Animal, Glowing

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