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• A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

  Jacob Epstein

  Dog, Sheep, Break Out

  Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.151, Read Books Ltd

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• Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get into another character's shoes and experience things both mundane and tragic. And people don't - like me right now - people aren't necessarily the most eloquent when trying to express their emotions. I guess I feel as a playwright that those people deserve a voice, too, a voice that isn't so articulate that they themselves can no longer identify with it.

  Tracy Letts

  Writing, Character, Shoes

  "Tracy Letts Is Still Haunted by His Past". Interview with Alex Witchel, www.nytimes.com. March 21, 2014.

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• The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.

  Fred Rodell

  Law, Squad, Lines

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• Socialism destroys everywhere one thing - diversity. Everything is supposed to be best, and as we know, best things are always in shortage. I remind once more that for reds "best" is what they consider "best" for us, and not what we like.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Diversity, Socialism, Shortage

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• Genetically my legs are supposed to be huge. I can't really think about it, or I'll go crazy.

  Rihanna

  Crazy, Thinking, Legs

  Allure magazine, January 2008.

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• Here's why I don't have time to 'play church': at the end of the day, when I was supposed to be discarded, and the tools came in to kill me, to crush my head or whatever you're supposed to do, the Lord took His hand, pushed in there, and pushed me back out of the way. And they thought they got me. But at the end of the day God had a plan for a broken situation.

  Fred Hammond

  Crush, Hands, Play

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• Today's tragedy in Paris reminds us very viscerally that it's a right that some people are inexplicably forced to die for. So it's very important tonight that I express that everybody who works at our comedy show, all of us are terribly sad for the families and people of France and anybody in the world tonight who now has to think twice before making a joke. It's not the way it's supposed to be.

  Conan O'Brien

  Thinking, Paris, People

  "Jon Stewart on Paris Attack: "Comedy Shouldn't Be an Act of Courage" by Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 7, 2015.

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• It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to be playing ordinary, adorably flawed professionals just like you and me with their brilliant minority friends (with vastly less camera time) who are surgeons. But it's not just ethnicity. That narrow vision also extends to, say, things like women leads. Women leads have to be good-hearted and nice, with a Slutty Best Friend. The main character can't be slutty. Because that's not attractively normal etc

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Nice, Character, Ethnicity

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• Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

  Olga Korbut

  Sports, Strong, Gymnastics

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• Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.

  John Hench

  Artist, Ideas, Pirate

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• Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Fun, Watches, Irony

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• That's what self-discovery seems to mean to most people. You're going to beat yourself up. You're going to reduce what you're supposed to be and do to a set of rules so you can defy them, or so you can perform them and feel smug.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Buddhism

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• You've gained some powers by your entrance into other dimensions and you use them to attack others or to make others miserable, then power reverses on you and it pulls you apart because it's not supposed to be used that way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Use

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• It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She is supposed to be able to go through this world with her eyes shut, and her mouth open wide enough to swallow Jonah and the Garden of Eden without making a wry face... Of all human beings a woman should spurn the Bible first.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Eye, Garden, Eden

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• Heaven is supposed to be a perfect place. Yet, it experienced a war (Revelation 12:7). How can there be a war in a perfect place and if it happened before why couldn't it happen again? Why would I want to go to a place in which war can occur? That's exactly what I'm trying to escape, aren't you?

  Dennis McKinsey

  War, Perfect, Heaven

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• I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Looks, I Am What I Am, Like Me

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• Know that wherever you are in your life right now is both temporary, and exactly where you are supposed to be. You have arrived at this moment to learn what you must learn, so you can become the person you need to be to create the life you truly want. Even when life is difficult or challenging-especially when life is difficult and challenging-the present is always an opportunity for us to learn, grow, and become better than we've ever been before.

  Hal Elrod

  Opportunity, Challenges, Want

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Dec 14, 2012

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• I can remember hearing the theme tune to Dallas when I was supposed to be in bed. I would sneak down and try to watch it through the banisters. My mum loved that show.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Trying, Bed, Dallas

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

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• You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jesus, Lying, Heart

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.11, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Clothes, Lists

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• I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Greatness, People, Empowering

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• I just understand that Im supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit.

  Flying Lotus

  People, Flavor, Littles

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• But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Soil, Common

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• Being veterinarians, we're not supposed to be afraid of any animals. And I'm afraid of spiders. They creep me out the way they move. They got hair and saliva. That's wrong. A bug shouldn't have hair on it.

  Kevin Fitzgerald

  Moving, Animal, Hair

  "Veterinarian Kevin Fitzgerald Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. August 11, 2007.

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• Some of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to be raising these kids, not belittling them and talking to them like the world is coming to an end.

  Ray Lewis

  Kids, Talking, Parent

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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