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I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just… — Brit Marling
Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits… — Charles de Lint
I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually… — Hunter S. Thompson
How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But if your devouring… — Ruben Papian
I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live,… — Matthew Healy
I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat… — Nathan Myhrvold
Once upon a time humans faced each other and pulled thoughts from minds, advanced rapidly, revolutionised industry and evolved explosively. Then one day they stopped,… — Craig Stone
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must… — Bill Vaughan
I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart. — Charles Krauthammer
I think dating is all about role playing, and figuring out what you want and don't want. You figure out more about yourself by meeting… — Shiri Appleby
I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and… — Tom Lehrer
The one thing I've come to figure out is this equation where the more uncomfortable I am, the better I'm going to look. I'm like,… — Kristin Bauer van Straten
Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don't want to in order to figure out what it is you're supposed to… — Larry David
I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process. — Trent Reznor
I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally,… — David Byrne
One of the things that Jon Kabat-Zinnn talks about is that everyone wants to figure out how to live longer. But this actually is a… — Anderson Cooper
A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy. — Vivica Fox
I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. — Pope Francis
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were. — James Franco
When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own… — Thomas Frank
In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't… — Thomas Frank
If you want a free email service that doesn't use your words to target ads to you, you'll have to figure out how to port… — Al Franken
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such… — Robert Frost
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the… — Stephen Fry
Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't, it isn't. It's… — Kenny G

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