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• I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was just sort of saying, even having modest ambitions to have a small career at singing, it's still really difficult to do that. Everyone wants to sing or act or whatever.

  Lana Del Rey

  Real, Ambition, Unusual Things

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

  Danica McKellar

  Children, Health, Parent

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• In those same decades, most UFO sightings were made in the daytime and frequently at close range, when shapes and surface features could be distinguished, thus making positive identification of normal sights easier and the descriptions of unusual sights more detailed. When all normal explanations had been eliminated, the witnesses could concentrate on those aspects of the experience which were most abnormal.

  Don Berliner

  Sight, Abnormal, Shapes

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• This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

  Donald Cram

  Inspirational, Funny, Careers

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• When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Unusual Things, People

  Interview with Charles Kohler, East Village Eye, 1968.

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• Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

  Tom Clancy

  Sex, Taken, Mean

  "Executive Orders". Book by Tom Clancy, p. 613, 1996.

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• I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

  Dan Simmons

  Teacher, Being A Teacher

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• That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Differences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.7, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but may become more intense if the beauty has changed into ugliness through causes that bind the lovers together in tender associations.

  Arthur Lynch

  Love, Loss, Together

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• He's managed to make himself something highly unusual for a man at this stage of his career: unclassifiable. Unpredictable. Tom Jones is no joke

  Ken Tucker

  Men, Careers, Stage

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• I don't really think of myself as quirky; I have sort of an unusual sense of humor.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Thinking, Quirky, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Well, we have the leverage in the sense that we supply all the wherewithal...or a major part of the wherewithal to finance or to pay for everything Israel does. We don't have any leverage in the sense that Israel controls the Senate. The Senate is at least...a subservient, in my opinion, much too much. We should be more concerned about the United States' interest, rather than doing the bidding of Israel. This is a most unusual development.

  J. William Fulbright

  Israel, United States, Doe

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• It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.

  Martha Plimpton

  Situation, Making A Living

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• Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Feelings

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• I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

  Jo Stafford

  Artist, Records, Pay

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• It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

  Robert Venturi

  Building, Prettiness

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• I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

  Ann Wilson

  Sheep, Black, Littles

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• I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.

  David Walliams

  School, Support You, People

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

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• I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

  Walter Lord

  People, Ordinary, Looks

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• It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Responsibility, Accountability, Film

  "New tax break will help British film-makers take on Hollywood" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2004.

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• This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Faces, Kind, Ends

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

  Michael Bassey

  Good Friend, Luck, Way

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• Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There's no such thing as a normal childhood. What's useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness.

  Kelly Link

  Writing, Childhood, Normal

  Interview with Maggie Slater, www.apex-magazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.

  Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

  Running, Queens, Australia

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• Slave holding is very unusual among the English-speaking peoples. Canadians didn't do it. Australians didn't do it. The Democratic Party and the states they controlled did it!

  Sean Hannity

  Party, Slave, States

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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