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You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith! — Donna Mills
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. — Chuck Palahniuk
When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a… — Bill Parcells
I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here.… — Pat Paulsen
When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women… — Natalie Portman
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First… — Patti Smith
As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing… — Sachin Tendulkar
Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. — Kurt Vonnegut
I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around it would not… — Robert Penn Warren
They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then… — Terry Pratchett
In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no… — James M. Barrie
You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts? — Steven Wright
I love these dudes, but I don't know what they're doing with all that facial hair these days. There's a lot of peach fuzz going… — Pete Wentz
He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was… — W. Somerset Maugham
They called themselves The Souls. They told Ms. Olinski that they were The Souls before they were a team, but she told them that they… — E L Konigsburg
It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different than… — Elizabeth Gilbert
What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more… — David Foster Wallace
Percy: The Heka-what? Annabeth: The Hundred-Handed Ones. They called them that because... well, they had a hundred hands. They were the elder brothers of the… — Rick Riordan
But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I… — Sarah Dessen
No they called it the Codex Merlini because it was written by a guy named Ralph. — Karen Chance
I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves. — Joyce Johnson
[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called… — Jane Austen

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