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		I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Adam Davidson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wislawa Szymborska
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The hazards posed by Near-Earth Asteroids are assessed by Sentry, a computer system developed by the Near-Earth Objects Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The software factors together a cosmic rock's coordinates, distance, velocity, and gravitational influences to calculate its trajectory.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brendan I. Koerner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We do not even inquire whether a black man is a rebel in arms, or not, if he is black, be he friend or foe, he is thought best kept at a distance. It is hardly possible God will let us succeed while such enormities are practiced.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James A. Garfield
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sam Taylor-Wood
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		With 'Eagle of the Ninth,' every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, 'Do this!' And I say, 'How was it?' and he says, 'Good.' It was very odd. I would never know where he was headed, or even if he was shooting me at a close-up or from a distance.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tahar Rahim
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Gray
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Drew Barrymore
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I used to date Kellan Lutz. We were together for two and a half years, but the distance and travel really kept us apart. In the end, we decided it wouldn't work, but we're still good friends.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kayla Ewell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Johannes Kepler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Zelda Fitzgerald
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm a firm believer in the connection between the body and the mind: feed one, feed both. I like to run, but only short distances, and fast. I'm no good at long distance. More than six miles, and the knees start to go.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Matt Haig