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• Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

  Concha Buika

  Dream, Vegas, Broken

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• She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.

  Laura Riding

  People, Kind, Venison

  "Progress of Stories". Book by Laura Riding. Chapter "Daisy and Venison", 1935.

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• The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

  Pauley Perrette

  Lying, Strange, Internet

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• Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I've ever experienced. It's made more difficult by the fact that it's constantly changing. You never know what class you belong to unless you're one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.

  Alan Arkin

  Class, Two, Long

  "What I've Learned: Alan Arkin" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. February 25, 2007.

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• I have not spoken in three years: not since I left boot camp. It has been three years of a senseless war, and though the reasons for it are clear, and though we will continue to fight until we are ordered to stop--and probably for a while after that--none of us can remember the hate that led us here. We are simply fighting to survive the war. It is a strange place to be at fifteen, bereft of hope and very nearly of your humanity. But that is where I am nonetheless.

  Chris Abani

  War, Hate, Fighting

  Chris Abani (2015). “Song For Night”, p.5, Saqi

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• But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Ideas, Knowing, Trying

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• I wish people wouldn't just see me as the Asian girl who beats everyone up, or the Asian girl with no emotion. People see Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock in a romantic comedy, but not me. You add raceto it, and it became, 'Well, she's too Asian', or, ‘She's too American’. I kind of got pushed out of both categories. It's a very strange place to be. You're not Asian enough and then you're not American enough, so it gets really frustrating.

  Lucy Liu

  Girl, People, Wish

  "Lucy Liu: ‘I Wish People Wouldn’t Just See Me As The Asian Girl Who Beats Everyone Up’". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2013.

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• I would have bought you some more, but since they didn’t have tags in them, I didn’t know what size to buy. (Sunshine) Great. I live to be stuck in strange places, naked. (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sunshine, Naked, Tag

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• For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them.

  David Sedaris

  Father, Food, Long

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Ideas, Inkheart

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people around me are snoring. I don't understand how they can close their eyes when there is so much to see.

  Patricia McCormick

  Running, Eye, People

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• Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said, smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie. Let go. You need to drift away." It was the first time I had relinquished my will to someone else. As I looked at him, it became easy, and I retreated from the suffering and uncertainty of this strange place.

  Charlaine Harris

  Letting Go, Pain, Hands

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.113, Penguin

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• What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her with wide eyes. Jane took several quick (but oh so casual) steps away from Martin's window. "Um, did I just say, 'Ya'?" "You just said 'Ya,'" he confirmed. "If I am not mistaken, it was a battle cry, warning that you were about to attack me. I, uh..." She stopped to laugh. "I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja.

  Shannon Hale

  Eye, Hands, Laughing

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.81, A&C Black

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• Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity. We're looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity. Like every generation before ours and every generation after, we're looking for Jesus-the same Jesus who can be found in the strange places he's always been found: in bread, in wine, in baptism, in the Word, in suffering, in community, and among the least of these.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Jesus, Wine, Community

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.14, Thomas Nelson

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• The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way-- a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable

  Robert James Waller

  August, Retrospect, Way

  The Bridge of Madison County (pp. 22-3)

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• Going onstage without my primary instrument is like being a guitarist and going up onstage with no guitar waiting for you. What do you do? That's why performance is painful for me, because I feel like I am always in a strange place with a bit of a handicap.

  Son Lux

  Guitar, Waiting, Painful

  "Son Lux Lights Up". Interview with Frank Valish, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 4, 2013.

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• If I could get any semblance of, not really anonymity, but control over my public image, that would be nice. But no, I think it's impossible [to maintain that], for one thing. I don't think anyone can do that, apart from Denzel Washington. It's a strange place that the film industry is at, where you can just play superhero after superhero.

  Robert Pattinson

  Nice, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.

  Buddy Hackett

  Fun, Golf, Naked

  Buddy Hackett (1968). “The Truth about Golf: And Other Lies”

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• I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. Ive hired many people at very strange places.

  Tony Fernandes

  Ambition, Humble, People

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• School was a strange place where they tried to make you into something.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Rama, Strange

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• My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.

  Morgan Freeman

  Coffins, Sailor, Reason Why

  "Morgan Freeman: 'Strive for Pleasure and Peace'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. November 28, 2012.

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• Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

  Renny Harlin

  Cards, Credit, Checks

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• It's a strange place where the film industry is at. I guess you could just play superhero after superhero. That seems to be the only guaranteed big-money thing. I don't know.

  Robert Pattinson

  Play, Superhero, Film

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

  Nina Simone

  Way, Hours, Five

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.

  Louis Sachar

  People, Special, All Alone

  Louis Sachar (2010). “Small Steps”, p.235, A&C Black

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