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• Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

  Sam Shepard

  Writing, Play, Want

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• By a lot of peoples standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on.

  Catherine Tate

  Way, Attention, Share

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• Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

  Richard Adams

  Animal, Men, Earth

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.129, Oneworld Publications

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• Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding, loveless doctrine is taught that animals have no rights that we are bound to respect, and were only made for man, to be petted, spoiled, slaughtered or enslaved.

  John Muir

  Teaching, School, Mean

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.56, Library of America

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• Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.

  Charles Dickens

  Silly, Character, Blow

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Little Dorrit”, p.142, Kartindo.com

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• I didn’t realize that pretending to be this ‘Hills Heidi,’ this spoiled rich girl who I wasn’t, would almost destroy me.

  Heidi Montag

  Girl, Realizing, Hills

  "Heidi Montag on Surviving Reality TV Scandal: Spencer and I Were Never Those People on ‘The Hills’". Interview with Cory Lopez, www.celebuzz.com. August 3, 2012.

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• I'm totally normal. I think it's obnoxious when people demand limos or bodyguards. I eat at McDonald's or Taco Bell. My parents always taught us to be humble. We're not spoiled.

  Paris Hilton

  Humble, Thinking, Mcdonalds

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

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• My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.

  Eric Stoltz

  Firsts, Actors, Film

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• I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so.

  Judge Reinhold

  Arrogant, Reputation, Difficult

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• Id have to say, for me, as a child, my favorite memories were always centered around Christmas time. It always seemed like no matter how much money my parents had or didnt have, we got completely spoiled rotten. There were always presents under the tree, and we always did special things, like hide elves around the house.

  Josie Bissett

  Christmas, Memories, Children

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• Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do with some sort of vengeance; he takes care of the vengeance himself, doesn't call the police. Like Robin Hood. It's the last masculine frontier. Romantic myth. I guess, though it's hard to think about anything romantic today. In a Western you can think, Jesus, there was a time when man was alone, on horseback, out there where man hasn't spoiled the land yet.

  Clint Eastwood

  Jesus, Men, Thinking

  "Clint: The Life and Legend". Book by Patrick McGilligan, 1999.

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• I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a story without concern for precision or freshness in the use of language. Some of this storytelling reads as if it were spoken rather than written, stuffed with tired images that pop into the writer's head because they are so familiar. The top of the head is fit for growing hair, but not for generating fine prose.

  Sol Stein

  Book, Writing, Tired

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• Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Art, Silence, Sound

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• Is there any other democracy where the voters are as spoiled as they are in the United States? Especially, of course, in certain states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire, where the old joke is literally true about the citizens who say they haven't yet formed an opinion about a candidate because they've only met the fellow a few times.

  Michael Kinsley

  Iowa, Democracy, United States

  "Kinsley: The Coddled American Voter". articles.latimes.com. January 06, 2012.

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• Yes, as a people we are spoiled. We look for dinners that take two minutes to cook in our microwave instead of five, and we audibly sigh if the directions on the box require us to stir at the halfway point. Aw, I gotta stir? See what else is in the freezer.

  Martha Bolton

  Two, People, Cooking

  Martha Bolton (2003). “I Think, Therefore, I Have a Headache!: A Laugh-Out-Loud Look at Life”, Bethany House Pub

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• We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Book, Arms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2955, Delphi Classics

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• This Osama bin Laden guy, spoiled rich kid worth $300M. I have three words for this guy: Anna Nicole Smith. We send her over there, she'll get his money, he'll be dead in a week.

  Jay Leno

  Kids, Guy, Three

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• I traveled and worked with amazing actors, like Andy Garcia, Alec Baldwin, Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Lee Pace. It was this great learning experience. And then, I started watching a lot of television. I was always in these foreign countries and I would get TV shows on DVD, and I started to realize that all of the amazing roles for women were on television. I was spoiled by Buffy because I thought that was the way it was everywhere, and it's not.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Country, Dvds, Tv Shows

  "Sarah Michelle Gellar Interview RINGER; Compares Her Return to TV to BUFFY Experience". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever.

  Meryl Streep

  Careers, Directors, Realizing

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.

  Lu Xun

  Dream, Existential, Given

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• I always really enjoyed our early days, before we got too famous. We used to play clubs and that kind of stuff all the time. And it was fun. It was good because you get to play and get quite good at the instrument. But then we got famous, and it spoiled all that, because we'd just go round and round the world singing the same 10 dopey tunes.

  George Harrison

  Fun, Play, Singing

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• I didn't want to be a sideman. My own style was coming out and I was into my own writing. I wrote a whole album, I arranged it all with pencil and paper. I did eventually do a lot of work with my father, but that was different. I was living at home; I wasn't a starving musician. I wasn't spoiled, but I wasn't going to have some producer come in and tell me what to play.

  Shuggie Otis

  Father, Home, Writing

  "1970s R&B Man Shuggie Otis Is Ready for His 'Sneak Back'". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.

  Haile Gerima

  Kids, White, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

  Edward Abbey

  Integrity, Vegetables, Cover Ups

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• The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

  Joseph Conrad

  Ocean, Savages, Temper

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.609, e-artnow

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