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There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries… — Steven Spielberg
I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've… — Joan Didion
Mary Martin was Broadway's biggest closet king. Everyone thought Ethel (Merman) was butch and maybe a lesbian, but she wasn't. And everyone thought that lovely… — Bob Fosse
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in… — Edgar Allan Poe
To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail. — Adrienne Rich
I think that people who study the scriptures get a dimension to their life that nobody else gets and that canâ€™t be gained in any… — Bruce R. McConkie
The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built… — H.G. Wells
No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing… — Mario Testino
I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health. — Jon Bon Jovi
I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally. — Janelle Monae
There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough. — William Zinsser
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man. — Andre Malraux
A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life… — Byron Katie
The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I… — Lucy Stone
This is what it's like to get old: You still feel 19, except your knees hurt — J. D. Daniels
Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who… — K. Pattabhi Jois
Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things. — Conan O'Brien
Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is… — Marcus Aurelius
Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me. — Joyce Carol Oates

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