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• Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

  Mark Twain

  Book, People, Wish

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• and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Community, Would Be

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• And now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking under the early evening sky. She was weary of being outdoors, but she was not ready to go in. Was that really all there was in life, indoors or out? Wasn't there somewhere else for people to go?

  Ian Mcewan

  Sky, People, Evening

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• It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  One Thing

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• Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Moving, One Thing

  Cecelia Ahern (2009). “There's No Place Like Here”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• I used to think I was unstable, because I had this thirst for something. I could never figure out what it was. I couldn’t sleep at night, and I always wanted to be somewhere else. I have a window tattooed, this little box, and it’s because wherever I was, I wanted to be somewhere else. And, I always saw myself, wherever I was in life, staring out the window.

  Angelina Jolie

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

  "Angelina Jolie: Billy Bob, Knives and Sex". abcnews.go.com. July 11.

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• I will not stand here to be insulted by you, hedgepig," Mangiz fumed. "Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there, featherbag!!

  Brian Jacques

  Insults You, Redwall, Insulted

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• How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Life, Journey, Apathy

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• If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.

  Al Franken

  Years, Want, Messages

  "Al Franken Warns Facebook, Google Users: ‘You Are Their Product’" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Ungrateful, Wish, Moments

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview in New York City, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's "supposed" to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.

  Mark Cuban

  Motivation, Business, Red Flags

  "Mark Cuban: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. November 17, 2008.

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• I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, America, Trying

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• There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Elements, Lines

  "Nick Cave is not in the business of telling people what to do". Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. April 8, 2013.

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• What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

  Erykah Badu

  Interviews, Articles, Furious

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• One can often trace the sources of a brand personality - here it is the advertising, there the pack, somewhere else some physical element of the product. Of course, the personality is clearest and strongest when all the elements are consistent.

  Stephen King

  Business, Personality, Elements

  "Stephen King 1971: What is a brand?". www.campaignlive.co.uk. October 5, 2007.

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• The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Pain, Doors

  Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.53, John Wiley & Sons

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• Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.

  Alice Munro

  Thinking, Wish, Gone

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.248, Vintage

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• It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Birthday, Careers, Ironic

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• You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square is nicely compact and less intimidating than a full page. And they come in cheerful colors. Non-white paper is kind of inherently festive. Or maybe paper that sticks feels more important than paper that can blow away. (Though you can move them, if you need to put them somewhere else.) They might not be as lasting as words carved in stone, but Post-It thoughts will stay. For awhile, at least.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Moving, Blow, Squares

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• Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

  Salman Rushdie

  Wish, Isolation, Melancholy

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• It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.

  David Lee Roth

  People, Wow, Action

  "Van Halen's David Lee Roth: 'I've always been a show-off' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Mick Brown, www.theguardian.com. 1984.

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• Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Religious, Organization, Tolerance

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• We're electrical items and when we die the electricity goes somewhere else. When we die our energy goes into the galaxy.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Energy, Electricity, Electrical

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to be? Or do you stop and listen to that voice inside you? I know who I am. I'm Petra West. And I'm a girl. You want me to sleep somewhere else, fine. Whatever. But I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not. I've done enough of that.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Sleep, Voice

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• ...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer.” Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her.

  Anne Mallory

  Kissing, Awful, Sanity

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