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• It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Mom, Dad, Smart

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• Perhaps God brought you into this mess so that he can bring you out of it for his glory.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Glory

  Twitter post from Sep 03, 2015

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• The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess....

  Russell Baker

  Giving, Advice, Going Out

  "The funniest commencement speeches" by Valerie Strauss, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

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• In almost any situation, it is far more devastating to keep your icy cool while the other person gets herself in a flush-cheeked, teary-eyed hot mess yelling in your face.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Yelling, Hot, Icy

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• You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad idea to mess with porcupines.

  Neal Knox

  Fighting, Winning, Thinking

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• If you're into writing and making people laugh, or just want to video blog something, you should get a simple digital video camera. And all computers now come with an easy video editing software program. Just mess around with that for a little bit, try to figure it out, then just put stuff online and have fun. Never give up!

  Lucas Cruikshank

  Fun, Giving Up, Writing

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• My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song." But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Song, Writing, Past

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking.

  Woody Allen

  What If, Needs, Ears

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.

  Keith Rabois

  Too Much, Enough, Process

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• These are the things I learned: share everything, play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw some and paint and sing and dance and play and work some every day. Take a nap every afternoon, and, when you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hurt, Sorry, Thinking

  Robert Fulghum, “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten”

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• Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

  Jim DeMint

  Progressive, Social, Policy

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• God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.

  James MacDonald

  Want, Cleaning, Not Afraid

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• We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently: "Don't mess up, don't make mistakes, don't make the boss look bad, don't give us any surprises." So we're asking for a kind of predictability, control, respect, and compliance that has nothing to do with learning.

  Walter Wriston

  Mistake, Giving, Support

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• You don't need cocaine! There's another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it's called marathon running!

  Robin Williams

  Running, Real, Mind

  "Robin Williams: Live at the Met". Documentary, www.imdb.com. October 11, 1986.

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• A charging black rhinoceros is nothing to mess with. When it is headed straight toward you, it is the ultimate exercise in sphincter control. In my case, it was a strange bit of weather that caused one to charge me.

  Boyd Norton

  Exercise, Weather, Black

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• I stand with the Navajo Nation and call upon the U.S. Government to do what is right and clean up this mess.

  Erin Brockovich

  Government, Clean, Nations

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• Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.

  Willis Regier

  Wade, Swamps, Scripture

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.17, U of Nebraska Press

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• I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.

  Andy Stanley

  Happy Endings, Problem, Plans

  Andy Stanley, Heath Bennett (2010). “Up to You: It's Your Life, Choose Wisely”, p.11, Multnomah

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• People always say, "You played such a strong character." I remember someone said that to me when I played a role in Shame, and she was a suicidal mess. I said, "She's not strong at all; she's incredibly weak." But "strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

  Carey Mulligan

  Strong, Real, Believe

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I want to expand the question of when something is done. I want to vex the ending. I want to mess around with that. I like the idea that if you make a work that has no clear ending, then you must play with the ending. Because if you don't, you're not highlighting the weird, lovely openness of abstraction.

  Amy Sillman

  Lovely, Done, Openness

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• Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be. And remember that the story is never over.

  Conan O'Brien

  Mistake, Fall, Unique

  "Lemons as Gifts, Viruses for Good, Failure for Success and College Graduation: A Well-Intended Tale" by Sydney Small, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2014.

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• I feel like God has moved me into a different way of doing things. I teach basic on-camera acting class called Acting 101...In my classroom, the students get every ounce of encouragement and craft and anything I'm able to give them.We have some rules. We don't take the name of The Lord in vain. We don't use foul language when we mess up on camera...There's a climate of safety...They feel very protected.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Encouragement, Class, Names

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It's probably the last thing you think about when you're making a film is other people's problems. You're thinking about your problem, which is making the movie. But you do have a responsibility. You can't mess around with people's emotions.

  Conor McPherson

  Responsibility, Thinking About You, People

  "Interview: Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of ‘The Eclipse’". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. Posted on.

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• When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.

  Noma Bar

  Art, Sketchbooks, Perfectionist

  Interview with Drew Dernavich, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2008.

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• I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.

  Violante Placido

  Song, Crazy, Mistake

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

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