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• I didn't think at all about my body until after I stopped nursing. When I was nursing, my body was my daughter's, I didn't even think about it. Then I finished nursing, and I was kind of like "Oh, huh, wow, my body's so different."

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Daughter, Nursing, Thinking

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

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• I try to write every day. Sometimes the things come out well, and sometimes they don't. When they come out well you think, Wow, I must be really great; and when they come out poorly, you think you must be terrible, but the truth is that's how any process works.

  Richard Ayoade

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?

  Wong Kar-wai

  Art, Looks, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think positive stress is actually a good thing. It's sort of the stretch goal "Wow, let me see how much faster I can run" or "Let me see how many more ideas I can generate in five minutes."

  David Allen

  Running, Stress, Thinking

  Source: www.stephanspencer.com

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• I think by take eight you're kind of going, "Oh, wow, I don't know if I want to fall entirely off the roof again." That stuff is tough, and I'm also not 21 anymore. I just don't like cement. Cement isn't hilarious any more.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Fall, Thinking, Eight

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• Using death to defeat death... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.

  Mark Hart

  Devil, Way, Saws

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.11, Franciscan Media

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• In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Thinking, Challenges, Growth

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• I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Mad, Trying

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• Looking at the original lyrics [of "A Song For You" ] as I was preparing it, I thought, "Wow! I feel like it was written for me." That's what a great song does. You don't have to do a lot of homework. You can just say the words and it springs to life.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Song, Spring, Doe

  "Renaissance man: an interview with Cheyenne Jackson". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• Most people experience history as one damn fact after another in high school. But if you can wonder, "Wow, what if the US hadn't gotten involved in World War II?", you can become enthralled by the imaginary possibilities.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  War, School, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• So my first experience was that I had to do a reboot of my expectations. Like fantastic, great, he's young and charismatic and I was like wow, this is so disorienting, I have to reboot. In retrospect, I can see that it's really powerful that somebody [Snowden] so smart, so young, and with so much to lose risked so much.

  Laura Poitras

  Powerful, Smart, Expectations

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• I am more of a conservationist, myself. And people have come to me and said, "Wow, you're an African-American conservationist!" And my response is, "No, I'm a conservationist who happens to be black."

  Jerome Ringo

  People, African American, Black

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would they do, man?

  Smokey Robinson

  Men, People, Today

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see something and go, wow, that's cool.

  Avi Arad

  Roles, Screen Time, Term

  "Avi Arad & Matt Tolmach interview: Spider-Man, Hulk". Interview with Simon Brew, www.denofgeek.com. April 16, 2014.

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• Sometimes all you can do is say, 'Wow.'

  Kevin Henkes

  Sometimes, Can Do

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• I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

  Odette Annable

  Girl, Apology, Thinking

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• What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'

  Giles Andreae

  Thinking, Function, Reader

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• Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read into it and say, "Wow! You know what? Whatever they're doing over there, it's extraordinary, and maybe that culture is superior to ours in certain ways."

  Gabe Polsky

  Beautiful, Sports, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play. It was just a little thing that I did because I really liked the film and I liked Benedict [Cumberbatch] and I loved Morten's [director Morten Tyldum] previous film, Headhunters. For me, it was something I did thinking, "Wow, this is a lovely quality piece of work."

  Mark Strong

  Character, Thinking, Games

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!

  Rex Stout

  Book, Stories, Letters

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I." by Sandra Schmidt in Life magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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• After a scary movie about the world almost ending, we can walk into the sunlight and say, "Wow, everything's still here. I'm OK!" We like to tease ourselves. Human beings have a need to get close to the edge, and when filmmakers or writers can take them to the edge, it feels like a dream where you're falling, but you wake up just before you hit the ground.

  Steven Spielberg

  Dream, Fall, Scary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some days are a blessing when you wake up and you say, 'Wow, I feel good today.' Some days are like: 'Wow, I feel bad. I got no chance today.' You tape it up and you go.

  Jorge Posada

  Blessing, Feel Good, Tape

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• Hopefully, at the end of my career, I can look back and say, 'Wow, what a game it was in Game 3 in 2011'.

  Albert Pujols

  Games, Careers, Looks

  "World Series: Pujols Smashes 3 Homers, Cardinals Take 2-1 Lead". www.foxnews.com. October 23, 2011.

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• Are Your Customers saying WOW?

  Tom Peters

  Customers

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• We got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking "Wow, I really need to take [singing] more seriously!"

  Patrick Stump

  Singing, Needs

  "Patrick Stump, Part 1". AbsolutePunk.net Interview, October 06, 2008.

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