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I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing… — Pat Murphy
I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went… — Tana French
They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why… — Ernest Hemingway
I began to understand that there were certain talkers--certain girls--whom people liked to listen to, not because of what they, the girls, had to say,… — Alice Munro
There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn. — Fran Lebowitz
The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn’t… — Alexandra Bracken
If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have… — Elliott Abrams
In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And… — Q'orianka Kilcher
When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race. — Paul Mooney
Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took. — Alice Dellal
Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your… — Noam Chomsky
I learned from the guys before me - Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that… — Kevin Hart
I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where… — Landon Donovan
I grew up in Iowa, and the improv comedy club Comedy-Sportz across the river in Illinois held auditions. They took me even though I was… — Eric Christian Olsen
I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be a model. I… — Saffron Aldridge
I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come… — Buzz Aldrin
I did not like formal meetings, because they took away my freedom. I just liked to spend time with my friends, where I could be… — Bidzina Ivanishvili
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took… — Red Cloud
Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously. — Kerry Thornley
They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they… — Henry Walter Bates
They took away time, and they gave us the clock. — Abdullah Ibrahim
The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took… — James Welch
When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a… — Sherman Austin
All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard… — Philip Gibbs

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