Seemed Quotes
2930 Seemed quotes by 1789 unique authors
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Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of fighting…
— Douglas Alexander
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It seemed like whatever I touched, I was breaking record after record. I just knew I was on. I completely destroyed all existing shooting records…
— Wilt Chamberlain
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In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.
— Joan Didion
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here to Eternity must…
— Manny Farber
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Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice…
— Aravind Adiga
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The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come…
— Nelson Mandela
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It's lifestyle music. It's not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can't name who the band is; whereas a heavy metal fan…
— Rob Zombie
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The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war…
— Adolf Galland
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I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I…
— Andrew Solomon
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...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything,…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard, humanlike scent. The…
— Dian Fossey
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Today is not bad just because yesterday seemed better.
— Pat McBride
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All my life, from birth, it's been a fight. And it always seemed to be another man's war. I always seemed to be fighting for…
— Sam Childers
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I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.
— Miep Gies
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You have to figure that there is something seriously wrong with somebody who wants to enter a profession that deals with whether people are screwing…
— Tom Upton
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Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.
— Jacques Rivette
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At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.
— Helen Garner
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When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate,…
— James Buchan
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The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political…
— Julie Mehretu
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In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my life.…
— David Brainerd
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I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't to run or…
— Ransom Riggs
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In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something.…
— Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
— Carla Bley
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My dad was an alcoholic and my mother...we didn't have any money and I grew up really poor. I watched them spend all of their…
— CM Punk
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