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• Your heart-as you call it-and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as those meters you will find on gas-pipes: they only perk up and start pumping when you drop coins in.

  Sarah Waters

  Heart, Coins, Meter

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.140, Penguin

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• I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left.

  Geraldine Laybourne

  Numbers, Office, Window

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• I just saw Titanic, which is a $200 million film about a real-life disaster at sea, but according to Hollywood Logic, none of the actual passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.

  Paul Rudnick

  Couple, Real, Sea

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• My mom's never liked the fact that there's an option for people to punch me in the face, but she likes that I'm doing what I love, and she enjoys a lot of the different perks that go along with it. She just thinks they should change the rules and make it so no one can hit me in the face.

  Urijah Faber

  Mom, Thinking, People

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• It's easier for me to get ready for a game on the road because you're expected to lose when you play away from home. That's a challenge to right there and that perks my competitive juices.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Home, Games

  Michael Jordan, Walter Iooss, Mark Vancil (1995). “I'm back!: more rare air”, Harpercollins

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• But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even a café latte to perk him up. The pyramids were designed and constructed without a whiff of a sniff of caffeine. Coffee was introduced to Europe only in 1615. The achievements of antiquity are quite enough to cow the modern human, but when you realize that they did it all without caffeine it becomes almost unbearable.

  Mark Forsyth

  Coffee, Europe, Pyramids

  Mark Forsyth (2011). “The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language”, p.154, Icon Books Ltd

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• One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.

  Amy Ryan

  Jobs, Smart, Moving

  "Amy Ryan Interview Green Zone". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. March 10, 2010.

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• I'm a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I'm invited to all the inaugural balls.

  Al Franken

  Balls, Administration, Clinton

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• The right to be married was hard earned by the marriage equality movement and one of its "perks" is the right to use the terms commonly associated with marriage; husband and wife are the two most common.

  Steven Petrow

  Husband, Two, Wife

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Wearing shorts is a huge perk. I think it's probably one of the reasons people become mailmen. You also get to drive in that vehicle that should be illegal in the United States, where the steering wheel is on the other side. They have no rules! They are the punk rock of government jobs.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring.

  Linn Ullmann

  Symbolism, Order, Perspective

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• Flirtation doesn't have to go somewhere; it certainly doesn't need to end up in bed. I like to think of it as a little friendlier than a handshake, a little less intimate than a kiss. It's a way of saying hi, you look great, have a wonderful day. A tasteful flirtation, played out people who understand the rules, leave everyone feeling good and can perk up the bluest mood.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kissing, Thinking, People

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.275, Dell

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• She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim." At her name, he perks up. Raises his flattened ears. Begins to meow hopefully. "Get out!" He dodges the pillow I throw at him. "Go away! There's nothing left for you here!" I start to shake, furious with him. "She's not coming back! She's never ever coming back here again!" I grab another pillow and get to my feet to improve my aim. Out of nowhere, the tears begin to pour down my cheeks. "She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stupid, Cat, Loss

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.386, Scholastic Inc.

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• I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

  Emma Thompson

  Mean, Two, Fields

  "Hugh Laurie". Interview with Emma Thompson, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

  Steven Pinker

  Tools, Psychologist, Know Thyself

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• The problem with a beautiful woman is that she makes everyone around her feel hopelessly masculine, which if you’re already male to begin with poses no particular problem. But if you’re anyone else, your whole sexual identity gets dragged into the principal’s office: “So what’s this I hear about you prancing around, masquerading as a woman?” You are answerless. You are sitting on your hands. You are praying for your breasts to grow, your hair to perk up.

  Lorrie Moore

  Beautiful, Hair, Hands

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Sep 12, 2014

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• Elected office holds more perks than Elvis' nightstand.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Redneck

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• And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.

  Stephen Chbosky

  People, Blame, Wonder

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?

  Stephen Chbosky

  Love You, Kissing, Want

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Matter, Gains, Moments

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Crush, Real, Thinking

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people "participate.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Happiness, Believe, Soon Enough

  Stephen Chbosky (2010). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?

  Stephen Chbosky

  What If, Needs, Arms

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone is special in their own way.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Special, Way, Perks Of A Wallflower

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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