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I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

Ewan McGregor

Real, Light, Moments

"The Guardian profile: Ewan McGregor" by Richard Jinman, www.theguardian.com. June 03, 2005.

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You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

Joni Mitchell

Music, Song, Writing

"If You Seek a Moment of Clarity While Complaining, You Just Might Stop Complaining" by Dennis Merritt Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2012.

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Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It's a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

Haruki Murakami

Doors, Rooms, Sides

"Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.

Paulo Coelho

Life, Change, Dream

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There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

Lois Lowry

Doors, Literature, World

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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

Sarah Dessen

Song, Strong, Connections

"Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

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A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.

Tom Stoppard

Dream, Butterfly, Two

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Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

Chris Crutcher

Pain, Joy, Matter

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If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

Martin Luther

Loyalty, Voice, Soldier

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From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

Betty Smith

Lonely, Reading, World

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But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That's when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow.

George Carlin

Positivity, Ideas, Laughing

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At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

Ian Mcewan

Writing, Stronger, Might

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I hung my head, and I felt someone, Fang, gather me gently to him. My cheek rested on his shoulder, and my silent tears soaked his torn shirt.He felt warm and strong and heartbreakingly familiar. And at that moment, not a single thing in my life was certain, strong, or whole. Nothing. Least of all Fang.

James Patterson

Strong, Tears, Moments

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My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.

W. Bruce Cameron

Dog, Pain, Purpose

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I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.

Viktor E. Frankl

Dream, Sorry, Sleep

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.29, Beacon Press

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And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

Robert James Waller

Bridges, Acting, Gone

"Fictional character: Francesca". "The Bridges of Madison County", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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She could see the name Fukamachi on a shiny name-plate by the door of the house, but it was a name that meant nothing to Kazuko. And at that moment, in her heart, she began to dream of meeting someone. Someone special who would one day walk into her life. Someone she would instantly feel she had known for years. Someone who would feel the same about her.

Yasutaka Tsutsui

Dream, Heart, Doors

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Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.

Stephen King

Teaching, Kids, Feelings

Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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My fellow Americans: Last night when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that the troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far. And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join me in prayer:
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization. . .

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Prayer, Fall, Struggle

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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I think it’s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you’re in … because when you improvise you’re in right now. You’re not in yesterday or tomorrow—you’re right in the moment. Being in that moment really gives you a perspective of life that you never get at any other time as far as learning about your ego… You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Charlie Haden

Thinking, Yesterday, Giving

"'Live In The Present': Charlie Haden Remembered". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2014.

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It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and every thought you have in your head grows in front of you without any mistakes; no rubbing out, starting again and getting frustrated. It’s like being in a trance - it’s a fluid - and you almost don’t remember doing the picture. Drawing is an escape from all the unnecessary things in life that get in the way of being free.

Jamie Hewlett

Mistake, Moving, Hands

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I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is only one person in the world for me at that moment.

Mother Teresa

Jesus, Believe, Good Friday

"Mother Teresa: Essential Writings".

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I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Happy, Photography, Taken

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If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

Ken Kesey

Motivational, Heart, Moments

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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.

Terence McKenna

Art, Two, Mind

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