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• The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.

  Ben Wheatley

  Drama, Reality, Detectives

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• Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about... whatever. Now we're walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk had a fight with a robot.

  Simon Pegg

  Fighting, Journey, Emotional

  "First Star Trek 3 Script Was Too Star Trek-y Says Pegg" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 20, 2015.

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• I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.

  Sophie Hannah

  Jobs, Husband, College

  "Sophie Hannah: 'It's surprising how many poems turn out to be about sex'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2014.

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• People used to share things with e-mail on a massive scale. If you remember e-mail forwards from the late ’90s, it was a terrible way to share content.

  Jonah Peretti

  People, Mail, Way

  "Miranda July and Jonah Peretti on Reading Other People’s E-Mail". Interview with Jesse Ashlock, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. July 11, 2013.

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• there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.

  George Eliot

  Two, Way, Audience

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.77

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• Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
  [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

  Tacitus

  Power, Guilt, Purpose

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• He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

  William Wordsworth

  Faculty, Infancy, Contempt

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• It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.

  Margaret Kennedy

  Thinking, People, Worry

  Margaret Kennedy (2014). “Ladies of Lyndon”, p.100, Random House

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• The first (barbers) that entered Italy came out of Sicily and it was in the 454 yeare after the foundation of Rome. Brought in they were by P. Ticinius Mena as Verra doth report for before that time they never cut their hair. The first that was shaven every day was Scipio Africanus, and after cometh Augustus the Emperor who evermore used the razor.

  Pliny the Elder

  Cutting, Hair, Rome

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 57, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter LIX. Holland's translation, 1922.

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• Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Character, Mean

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.377

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• I love the evening star. Does that sound foolish? I used to go into the backyard, after sunset, and wait for it until it shone above the dark gum tree. I used to whisper 'There you are, my darling.' And just in that first moment it seemed to be shining for me alone. It seemed to understand this ... something which is like longing, and yet it is not longing. Or regret - it is more like regret.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Stars, Regret, Sunset

  Katherine Mansfield, Ian Alistair Gordon (1974). “Undiscovered country: the New Zealand stories of Katherine Mansfield”

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• I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in the media. But the people that I used to inspire me and keep me going were my peers in Toronto - I would see the same girls going to audition after audition, and their resilience to do it again, and I found that inspiring.

  Anna Silk

  Girl, Thinking, Media

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• Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Food, Garlic, Perfume

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed, leaders have found convenient excuses for seeking them and have used them to impress crowds, reward friends, deprive foes, forge alliances, and justify war. Jewels may find their highest expression in the decorative arts, but they have also earned a place in the art of the possible.

  Madeleine Albright

  Art, War, Expression

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• If e'er I win a parting token,
  'Tis something that has lost its power--
  A chain that has been used and broken,
  A ruin'd glove, a faded flower;
  Something that makes my pleasure less,
  Something that means--forgetfulness.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Flower, Mean, Winning

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• The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Race, People

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator”, p.560

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• Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Taken, Class

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• I used to think there would be a blinding flash of light someday, and then I would be wise and calm and would know how to cope with everything and my kids would rise up and call me blessed. Now I see that whatever I'm like, I'm pretty well stuck with it for life. Hell of a revelation that turned out to be.

  Margaret Laurence

  Wise, Blessed, Kids

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• But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sweet, Dust, Tree

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.69, Wordsworth Editions

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• It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a child, I went to school with and heard the stories of Mexicans, Italians, and Greeks, and I listened. I remember their language, and a lot of it is marvelous. But when I think of things my mother or father or aunts used to say, it seems the most absolutely striking thing in the world.

  Toni Morrison

  Mother, Children, Father

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• It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Children, Emotional

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• Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Men, White Man

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.505, Open Road Media

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• women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

  Gloria Steinem

  Husband, Men, Feminist

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• In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression. ... But until we finally untangle sexuality and aggression, there will be more pornography and less erotica. There will be little murders in our beds - and very little love.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Littles, Imbalance

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• People used to have time to live and enjoy themselves, but there is no time anymore for anything but work, work, work.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  People, Enjoy

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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