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• I love the earth too much to contemplate a life apart from it, although I believe in that life.

  Andre Dubus

  Believe, Earth, Immortality

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well.

  Lu Xun

  Littles, Suits, Failing

  "The Epigrams of Lusin" in "The Wisdom of China and India" edited and translated by Lin Yutang, New York: Random House, (pp. 1087-1092), 1942.

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• I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

  Ryan Murphy

  School, Parent, Film

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• I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.

  Ashley Olsen

  Men, Mirrors, Body

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• A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

  Meat Loaf

  Moving, Cameras, Locks

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

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• What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

  John Connolly

  Moving, Self Harm, Writing

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• Beware of too much taste as it leads to sterility.

  Ernst Haas

  Taste

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• One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

  John Gay

  Husband, Two, Wife

  John Gay (1818). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.41

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• If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods. Sometimes the signal light loves you. Sometimes they fight you. When you're hunting for a new building, you hope the city is on your side. You have to use a little bit of thinking--you might call it the process of elimination--and you need a little bit of instinct, but not too much of either. If you think too hard, you overshoot your target and end up at the Pier or the Tenderloin. If you relax and let the city help, the destination does all the work for you.

  Scott Adams

  Love You, Fighting, Thinking

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• Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

  John Lubbock

  Heart, Discouraged, Beaten

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• I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

  James Thurber

  Running, Believe, Men

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• A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

  Charles Buxton

  Party, Companionship, Flight

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”

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• They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.

  Robert Altman

  Nice, Winning, Expectations

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• We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

  John Osborne

  Death, Dying, Months

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• I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Knitting, Internet

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's no way, of course, to fully understand what an illness does to someone or what emotional state or physical state it puts you in, but to show respect, yeah, definitely I've had a chance to talk to many people that - it wasn't really a specific illness that quote-unquote, I researched, and as I said, if I was a good actor I would have done that. But you know, I just wanted to pay respect without putting too much into it.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Emotional, People, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I don't really care too much about Valentine's Day... I've never had a valentine or anything. I've always just spent it with my friends, so I don't really have much expectation for Valentine's Day.

  Emma Roberts

  Valentine, Expectations, Care

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The best notes are action-based and less, I don't know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we're too much in our heads anyway.

  Josh Peck

  Actors, Action, Notes

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think the difference is that Angelina didn't need any CGI enhancement and I did! You can't really think about some things too much, you just get on with it and do it. It's about the way you move and the way you sound.

  Ray Winstone

  Moving, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think that when you let go and "throw it all away" and stop getting attached and say "whatever happens, happens", you don't invest too much in anything particular, and things work out.

  Chris Pine

  Letting Go, Thinking, Work Out

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's never too much stuff going up people's butts.

  Jeff Tremaine

  People, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Men and women are so alike that a woman must make an intellectual effort to differentiate herself. As soon as one understands who one is, one can disguise oneself any way one wants. As soon as one has found one's look, one's shape, one does not need to alter it too much, in fact I would say that one should not change it.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Men, Effort, Intellectual

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters, what are their relationships to each other, and just trying to get a sense of what and who this book is about. Usually around that point of 100 pages, I start to feel like I'm lost, I have too much material, it's time to start making some choices. It's typically at that point that I sit down and try to make a formal outline and winnow out what's not working and what I'm most interested in, where the story seems to be going.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Writing, Character

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• Alas, passion is conducive to certain other things because when you have too much passion and you have too much work, you possibly end up having black holes. The danger is too much passion.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Passion, Black, Danger

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.

  Keith Murray

  Song, Emotional, Thinking

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