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I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied. — Martin Scorsese
The first time we put Debbie Downer on the show, I had a giggle fit that I couldn't control, and the whole cast ended up… — Rachel Dratch
Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to… — Dave McKean
Suddenly I find myself feeling sorry for those greedy, needy people whose huge salaries are never quite enough, whose sense of worth is defined by… — Terence Blacker
There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal. — Susan Wiggs
People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful… — Jeffery Deaver
All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He… — Robert McNamara
The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up… — Philip Hensher
He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting… — Geoff Dyer
You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and… — Peter Shaffer
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. — Germaine Greer
If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever,… — Tim Burton
I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar.… — Maya Lin
There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds… — Christian Wiman
Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward. — Laurence Overmire
Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all. — Monica Dickens
To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you… — Anatole Broyard
My stories are never quite good enough — Anne Tyler
Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it.… — Diane Chamberlain
I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological… — Robert Jay Lifton
Sometimes I think we're all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we never look down… — Dorothy Gilman
Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved. — Charles Lamb
Every time I make, I've made a piece of work, I've wanted to get rid of it, obliterate it and do the next thing, because… — Simon McBurney
Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted… — Simon McBurney
I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel… — David Henry Hwang

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