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I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face. — Bill Condon Copy Share Image
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Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
She's a yellow pair of running shoes, a holey pair of jeans. She looks great in cheap sunglasses, she looks great in… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
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We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work… — Rob Nilsson Copy Share Image
When I initially read the script, it goes inside and comes out different things even without commenting on any stuff. And then,… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my… — Dave Bautista Copy Share Image
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Do you want to be with Dave for the rest of your life?” Then he rips off a piece of paper and… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The… — Anson Mount Copy Share Image
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
With any kind of physical test, I don't know what it is, I always seem to get competitive. Remember when you were… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings...unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, and the blood in my veins. — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
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Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
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