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• I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.

  Sloane Crosley

  Country, New York, Reality

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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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• 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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• The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

  Samuel Beckett

  Laughing, Tears, Quality

  "Waiting for Godot". Play by Samuel Beckett, 1952.

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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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• I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.

  Malin Akerman

  Reality, Labyrinth, World

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

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• Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Space, Okay, Folds

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2010.

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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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• A campaign, like a brand, is not just a number of bits put together - a claim here, a pack shot there, a reason why somewhere else. If we try to produce it by the atomistic approach, we will end up with a sort of Identikit brand. It will be a perfect description of the structure of the brand, as the Identikit can describe the contours of the face. But it won't be the same thing. The brand will never come to life.

  Stephen King

  Business, Numbers, Perfect

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

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• But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.

  Dave Eggers

  Inspiration, Animal, Frustration

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.287, Pan Macmillan

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• We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

  Tom Stoppard

  Integrity, History, Looks

  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) act 1

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• It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.

  Joan Didion

  New York, Cities, Rich

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Oct 15, 2013

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• ...being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy, even. I thought. Then someone came along and showed me there was a door in the room. One that I'd never even seen before. Then he opened it for me. Held my hand as I walked through it. And for one perfect day, I was on the other side. I was somewhere else. Someone else. And then he was gone, and I was thrown back into my little room. And now, no matter what I do, I can't seem to find that door.

  Gayle Forman

  Doors, Hands, Perfect Days

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Mar 16, 2013

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• A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.

  Damon Galgut

  Journey, Space, Gestures

  "In a Strange Room: Three Journeys". Book by Damon Galgut, April 2010.

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• You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.

  Luke Davies

  Beautiful, I Like You, Lovers

  Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.97, Penguin

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• When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.

  David Levithan

  Want, Persons

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.136, Egmont UK

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• People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Believe, People

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.63, A&C Black

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• Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Principles, Citizens

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.291

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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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• 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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• I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.

  James Rollins

  Travel, Crazy, Writing

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