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• My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.

  Andy Garcia

  Mean, Kids, Community Theatre

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• I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

  Chester Brown

  Running, Thinking, People

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• Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Relaxation, Laziness

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

  Adam Sandler

  Parent, Cursing, Grew Up

  "Adam Sandler Talks THAT’S MY BOY, Leaving SNL, and Returning to R-Rated Comedy". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2012.

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• The more natural, the better.

  Brandy Norwood

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• We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Games, Matter, Sticks

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• I know we can’t always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural – no epidural, no interventions.

  Danica McKellar

  May, Medical, Surprise

  "Danica McKellar: 'My Hope Is To Go Fully Natural – No Epidural, No Interventions'". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. July 8, 2010.

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• No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

  Octavia Butler

  Writing, Fiction, Guides

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• Beginning writers are often advised to 'write what you know,' and since I knew about quilters - their quirks, their inside jokes, their disputes and their generosity, their quarrels and their kindnesses - the lives of quilters became a natural subject for me. Quilting wove together my two themes as completely and effortlessly as I could have hoped.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Kindness, Writing, Two

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• As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Friendship, United States, Advancement

  Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Country, Islands, United States

  Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.127, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Worrying won't prevent the worst outcome. I've learned to live in the moment, which is not my natural tendency. I've always thought that if I worried about something enough, it wouldn't happen. I forgot to worry about Parkinson's.

  Tracy Pollan

  Worry, Live In The Moment, Outcomes

  "Oprah Talks to Michael J. Fox & Tracy Pollan". www.oprah.com. March 15, 2002.

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• There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood.

  Roland Emmerich

  New York, Weather, Laughing

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• I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.

  Vincent Cassel

  Stars, Style, French Love

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• I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Humanity, West, Salvation

  Xiaobo Liu, E. Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao (2012). “No Enemies, No Hatred”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.

  Kate Burton

  Able, Way, Actresses

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• I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better.

  Rick Bass

  Thinking, Long, Novelists

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• The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders and avoid seeing it - would for me seem like a form of madness. I'm also interested in the way landscape shapes individuals and populations, and from that, cultures.

  Rick Bass

  Trying, Population, Culture

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• My natural color is dark blond, but right now I like being a brunette. I did a movie last summer and they dyed my hair platinum - I hated it.

  Brooke Burns

  Summer, Dark, Color

  "'Miss Guided' Brooke Burns spills secrets" by Shawna Malcom, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2008.

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• I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  Thinking, Tragedy, Faces

  "Julie Brown: Being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. October 20, 2010.

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• When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Unique, Hustle, Louisiana

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• Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?

  Mark Bittman

  Swimming, Filth, Salmon

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• It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

  Michael Behe

  Fundamentals, Goes On, Century

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• It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

  Michael Behe

  People, Principles, World

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• Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

  Michael Behe

  Select, Arise, Function

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