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• I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.

  Sonja Sohn

  Fall, College, Years

  "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

  Boz Scaggs

  Black, Radio, Grew Up

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• It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.

  Curtis Stone

  Thinking, People, Add

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• I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.

  Emeli Sande

  Mean, Rooms, Bigs

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• I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.

  Gordon Strachan

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Gordon Strachan: 'And people think I've got a problem with the press...'". Interview with Richard Rae, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2010.

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• Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.

  Imelda Staunton

  Mother, Thinking, Space

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• It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.

  Mark Strong

  Character, Dark, Opportunity

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• She is by my side, as my sister, but he is my soul.He is my enemy, my tormentor, my demon.He is my beloved.

  Gillian Shields

  Soul, Enemy, Mentor

  Gillian Shields (2009). “Immortal”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified. They are like hard clay and we push them on each side of the child's attention field.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Teaching, Buddhism

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• If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Pain, Buddhism

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• I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied.

  Osamu Dazai

  Waiting, Awkward, Boards

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.

  John B. Larson

  Children, School, Common Sense

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• I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

  Joe Scarborough

  Political, Three, Bobby Kennedy

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• I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent.

  Aida Turturro

  New York, Italian, My Family

  "'The Sopranos' Aida Turturro talks about fighting hunger and her hit show". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.

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• It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

  Alan Thicke

  Dark, Comedy, Said

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• I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

  E. P. Thompson

  Weapons, Range, Nato

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• Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

  Tristan Wilds

  Writing, Loss, Guy

  "Meet 90201's Tristan Wilds!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

  Alexander Wang

  Thinking, Creative, Mind

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• I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Winning, Thinking, Awards

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• I like Twitter a lot. It is a great way to get the fans knowing another side of you.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Knowing, Fans, Way

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

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• Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.

  Jim C. Walton

  War, Voice, Iraq

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• When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.

  Lev Yilmaz

  People, Looks, Attention

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• If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your dark side and are angry, and screaming, and breaking things, and you do that for hours and hours on end, you are going to be incredibly exhausted. That's just the way life is.

  Jeremy Piven

  Dark, Giving, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. As Henry Ford said many years earlier: "If I had listened to my customers, I would have built a faster horse." Inventions in general express Shannon entropy. They come from the supply side.

  George Gilder

  Horse, Years, People

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.32, Regnery Publishing

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• The shushumna is the tube that the kundalini passes up in the subtle body, and on one side is the ida and the other side is the pingala.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Body, Subtle

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