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• With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises. Fluid prose, gore galore and all-too human characters make this unusual, fast-paced novella a must for fans who like their horror served blood-rare.

  Kealan Patrick Burke

  Butterfly, Character, Blood

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• Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.

  Jonathan Rosen

  Beautiful, People, Goldfish

  Jonathan Rosen (2010). “Eve's Apple: A Novel”, p.72, Macmillan

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• Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Quality, Degrees, Demand

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.46, Penguin

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• I have nothing but gratitude for the people who made the film. It was a most unusual experience. I'm no judge, and the only film I've ever seen made was Mockingbird, but there seemed to be an aura of good feeling on the set. I went out and looked at them filming a little of it, and there seemed to be such a general kindness, perhaps even respect, for the material they were working with. I was delighted, touched, happy, and exceedingly grateful.

  Harper Lee

  Gratitude, Kindness, Grateful

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• I always had a very open mind and a very open heart. I always look for the good in everybody and the God in everybody. I play to that. And I just love people. I love the difference in people. I love getting to know people. I appreciate getting accepted myself, because I know I'm unusual. And I love the unusual in other people.

  Dolly Parton

  Heart, Play, Differences

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Dancer, Competition

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• Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Men, Blazers

  betty friedan (1963). “the year's most controversial bestseller the feminine mystique”

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• There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations: they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon.

  John Stuart Mill

  Strong, Average, Class

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Cutting, Directors, Finals

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're dealing with heavy topic matter, sometimes it's good to have a lightness going into it because it allows you to be open to possibilities, rather than getting rigidly stuck into a certain mind-set. People are strange. When you break up, sometimes you end up laughing with one another, as opposed to crying. Things in life are unusual, and to find those things, it's best to be relaxed.

  Michael Fassbender

  Things In Life, People, Laughing

  "Michael Fassbender Talks SHAME, A DANGEROUS METHOD and the X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Sequel". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 21, 2011.

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• The g-forces increased and I wasn't able to continue to hold the camera against the window, so I had to lay it back against my chest, but still continued to photograph the re-entry until there was no more unusual visual effects of the energy in the atmosphere. And it was very comforting to understand that the people in Houston, the controllers, had very high confidence that we were on the right path.

  Buzz Aldrin

  People, Comforting, Atmosphere

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• In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.

  David Brinkley

  Husband, Men, Support

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• We wanted to show people what it was like in one of those neighbourhoods that they would never have access to, in bars that they would be too scared to go into, and a world that they would never get to see. All of that is something really unusual and rare and kind of fascinating. And the only way to do that and to make it really worthwhile was that it had to be authentic. We dedicated a lot of time and energy to making that right and real. So we found basically the worst locations that we could.

  Ben Affleck

  Real, People, Energy

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's unusual to spend even three full hours away from my newborn baby, it's like a piece of my body is back in the hotel room, and it does feel strange. But I love my work, though, it's not just a job for me, punching in my time card. I've always loved what I do, it's what makes me happy and I figure if I'm happy I'll be a good Mum too.

  Naomi Watts

  Baby, Jobs, Pieces

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Literally, the piece at the end is where the universe is cracked apart, it's a big moment. Basically, they, the filmmakers, have directed the story earlier in the book. It happens, it's called adapting a book, you have to make decisions about things. It's not unusual having to cut out scenes.

  Daniel Craig

  Book, Cutting, Decision

  "Daniel Craig Is Lord Asriel in The Golden Compass". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 4, 2007.

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• Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual. But in "Iron Man" it was kind of like both worlds colliding because there was a lot of improvisation, not that we improv-ed in the scenes but to discover the actual scenes themselves.

  Jeff Bridges

  Men, Iron, Pressure

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 4, 2007.

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• I'm not inspired by space in that kind of futuristic sense, but I've never liked retro. Of course, we always get references from the past, but that doesn't mean that the clothes have to look like the past. We need to look forward, which is why I'm fascinated by new materials, technologies, techniques, and unusual ways to use colors or textures.

  Italo Zucchelli

  Mean, Past, Technology

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.

  Guy Pearce

  Ideas, Sides, Steps

  Source: collider.com

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• To be struck twice by two different cyclones is unusual, to say the least.

  Max Mayfield

  Two, Cyclones, Different

  "Power out, trees fall as hurricane crosses Bermuda". www.foxnews.com. October 18, 2014.

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• I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.

  Danny Boyle

  People, Desire, Different

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• An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they must go looking for it. Plays are written about...the extraordinary, the unusual, the climaxes. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Drama, Play, Interesting

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• Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.

  Oliver Herring

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.

  Bill Gates

  Weed, Marijuana, Choices

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• Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Photography, Speaks Out, Ties

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