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It reminded me of talking, how what is said is never quite what was thought, and what is heard is never quite what was said.… — Kevin Powers
The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to… — Jules Henry
Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free… — Dave Hickey
When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease… — Charles Lamb
It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all… — Alexis de Tocqueville
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with… — Cyril Connolly
Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but… — Joe McGinniss
I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a… — Anne Carson
Working with Mel Gibson is a little like waltzing with a hurricane. It's always exciting, and you're never quite sure where it's going to take… — Jim Caviezel
I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly. — Tim Finn
Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being… — Virginia C. Andrews
It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real. — Mariel Hemingway
L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back… — Kelly Macdonald
Clearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure what—apart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of shame… — Donna Tartt
I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or… — Fernando Pessoa
One life was never quite enough for what I had in mind. — Seymour Krim
Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing… — Peter York
When you work for the thing you believe in You're rich though the whole way is rough- But work that is simply for money Will… — Rebecca McCann
But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood. — Ted Kotcheff
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives. — Edward Higgins White
It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such… — Walt Disney
We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the… — Chrissie Wellington
Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him… — Ian Mckellen

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