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• I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

  Sissy Spacek

  People, Details, Actors

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• It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Meditation, Mind

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• Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Watches, Custody

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• I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.

  Miranda July

  Thinking, Fiction, Way

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• A good writer is always a people watcher.

  Judy Blume

  People, Good Writers

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• The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

  George Eliot

  Death, Heart, Waiting

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2743, ShandonPress

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• The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a banal trope of every second crime novel: the weirdo, fetishistic watcher/stalker/kidnapper/kidnapper of women or children.

  Emma Donoghue

  Jobs, Children, Book

  "Emma Donoghue Chats About 'Room'". The New Yorker Chat, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 2011.

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• Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mind, Causes, Emotion

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.55, New World Library

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• It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens is a species of primate, a biological phenomenon dominated by biological rules, like any other species. Human nature is no more than one particular kind of animal nature. Agreed, the human species is an extraordinary animal; but all other species are also extraordinary animals, each in their own way, and the scientific man-watcher can bring many fresh insights to the study of human affairs if he can retain this basic attitude of evolutionary humility.

  Desmond Morris

  Attitude, Humility, Men

  Desmond Morris (1977). “Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior”

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• This is what meditation is all about, just becoming a watcher. Failure comes, success comes, you are praised, you are condemned, you are respected, you are insulted - all kinds of things come, they are all dualities. And you go on watching. Watching the duality, a third force arises in you; a third dimension arises in you. The duality means two dimensions: one dimension is happiness; another is unhappiness. Watching both, a depth arises in you: the third dimension, witnessing, sakshin.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Mean, Two

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• I think Washington watchers keep their eye on what's coming out of Congress legislatively, and they don't see anything. They see Trump meeting and talking and doing things, and they don't see any legislation. To them, everything's legislation. I don't think they're aware of how Trump does things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Eye, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Mankind will discover objects in space sent to us by the watchers.

  Nostradamus

  Space, Mankind, Objects

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• Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken.

  John Keats

  Sky, Space, Swim

  "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" l. 9 (1817)

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• I am an old school sort of syndicated cartoon watcher. I'm a big fan of Voltron, too.

  Seamus Dever

  School, Cartoon, Fans

  Source: collider.com

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• Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the tallest and fattest golf watcher on the course will take up station directly in front.

  Peter Dobereiner

  Golf, Shooting, Vantage Point

  Peter Dobereiner (1981). “The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner”

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• Any day above ground is a good one. A woman's beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way. My father, now in heaven, is the watcher of birds. And his eye is on his sparrow. God, in his great silence, is still there. Of that I haven't a single doubt. Music is the balm that heals the ache of a forlorn star.

  Donald E. Williams, Jr.

  Stars, Father, Eye

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• I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

  Katey Sagal

  Fun, Heart, Kids

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• I think whether you're a movie critic and have seen a million movies, or you're just a normal popcorn movie watcher, you can tell the difference when someone is just laying it on too thick.

  Josh Peck

  Thinking, Differences, Popcorn

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• There's 3 types of people in this world: there's talkers, there's watchers, and there's doers.

  Jeremy Stephens

  Mma, People, World

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• Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain unbefriended.

  Pete Townshend

  Lonely, Church Bells, Judging

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• But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!

  Wes Bentley

  Dad, Kids, Python

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• I'm not a big TV watcher, but I know that Discovery is a teaching network. And they've been so awesome to me, I love those people.

  Paul Brown

  Teaching, Discovery, People

  Source: www.missbargainhuntress.com

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• I'm a big people-watcher. I love it. But I feel bad about it, because I always get caught!

  Sean William Scott

  People, Bigs, Caught

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• It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Hands, Poverty, Prosperity

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• The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.

  Henry James

  House, Fiction, Window

  Henry James (2016). “Portrait of a Lady”, p.8, Henry James

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