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• I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Thinking, Want, Storyteller

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• That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Contentment, Routine, Rewards

  Sebastian Faulks (2011). “Engleby”, p.254, Random House

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• The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up. Every time I turn that radio on, there's Clinton, making a speech. And he makes speeches on a subject he doesn't know anything about. He has no discipline.

  Barry Goldwater

  Thinking, Discipline, Letters

  "Barry Goldwater's Left Turn". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.washingtonpost.com. July 28, 1994.

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• Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

  S.C. Stephens

  Lines, Path, Sides

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• Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes you just know.

  Alex Ferguson

  Player, Doubt, Sometimes

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• I've always been intrigued with the male characters in novels like 'Pride and Prejudice' such as Mr. Darcy, and this poem is part of a series of poems that explore desire and obsessions. The poems have been sitting in a drawer for a few years, so I decided to dust them off and work on them again since I have not written a new poem in more than three years. I'm not sure anything will become of the series, but at least it gives me something to work on in a period where I feel very uncreative.

  Victoria Chang

  Character, Pride, Dust

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• I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Years, White, News

  "O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Respond to Jon Stewart's Criticism of Fox News". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2010.

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• It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Taken, Character, Self

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• I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

  Arthur Koestler

  Civilization, Ethics, Ethical

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• I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

  Tracy Chapman

  Spirituality

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• I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.

  Lee Iacocca

  Children, Kids, Focus

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• We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Men, Joy, Sorrow

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.250, Delphi Classics

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• Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

  Ann Beattie

  Character, Men, Interesting

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• It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps the crested tide: what day of the month I do not know, which day of the week I am not sure, far less what hour of the night.

  James Agee

  Summer, Sleep, Night

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

  Billy Crystal

  Film Directing, Nyu, Comedian

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

  Michael Nesmith

  Tough, Kind, Novel

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• I'm not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.

  Miranda Richardson

  Beach, Lying, Alaska

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• It is often said that having gone through any kind of suffering tends to makes you appreciate life more and live more in the present. I'm not sure how universal or long-lasting these effects really are.

  Julian Baggini

  Long, Appreciate, Suffering

  "An unequivocal 'no'" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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• I've seen it in so many talented young women who hold back because they're not sure that what they say will be smart enough. Or maybe they've said something in a prior meeting, and people acted like they hadn't said it, and that was crushing. Then we have all had the experience where 20 minutes later, a man says the same thing and everybody responds positively.... So don't take it personally. Take it seriously so that you understand it, and then try to devise techniques to overcome it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Crush, Smart, Men

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• I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

  Dusty Baker

  Careers

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• I think there are presences out there that we can't see or directly communicate with that have benevolent influence on us. Whether they're angels or something else, I'm not sure.

  Misha Collins

  Angel, Thinking, Influence

  "Misha Collins talks about ‘apocalyptic’ finale of ‘Supernatural’". Interview with Yvonne Villarreal, herocomplex.latimes.com. May 14, 2009.

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• I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.

  Cat Cora

  Talking, Ideas, Advice

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• It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

  Dorothy Allison

  Challenges, Important, Equal

  Dorothy Allison, Mae Miller Claxton (2012). “Conversations with Dorothy Allison”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.

  Emma Caulfield

  Would Be, Lines, Timing

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• Young people in particular need real options to find a decent job and to lift their lives. I'm not sure the new Islamist governments will be the best to promote prosperity and growth.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Jobs, Real, Government

  "Spain's Former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar on the Arab Awakening and How the West Should React" by Jose Maria Aznar, www.cnbc.com. December 08, 2011.

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