Certain Quotes
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I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
Sara Gruen
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There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.
Michael Caine
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I will get into trouble, I am sure, because since my Kate Middleton speech and before, certain papers were after me. I am not saying, however, that it would have been moral or right to assassinate Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, but I know it will be read that way. I know it will cause a problem.
Hilary Mantel
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I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.
Paul Auster
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Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didn’t, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn’t so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.
Sarah Dessen
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People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!
Richard Feynman
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God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.
Seamus Heaney
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Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.
Michael Caine
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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
Hedy Lamarr
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From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.
Paul Newman
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Sometimes you may even have a stunt double do certain things for you, but when it's close-up and it's really dramatic, that's when you really need to concentrate. You cannot get body doubles or anybody else to do it for you.
Svetlana Khodchenkova
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I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
Norman Granz
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In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.
Rich Lowry
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I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.
Robert Wyatt
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I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.
Michael Ian Black
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You know that this vignette and that vignette belong side by side, you know that a certain turn of phrase you've been saving will probably work best within a given section of the narrative. As in a jazz performance, writing lives or dies by what's produced in that moment. But that moment is attended by long preparation.
Teju Cole
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I think, at a certain point, it's better for women not to have any alcohol because it can make your face, breasts and midsection get very bloated.
Sharon Stone
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If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?
Wilt Chamberlain
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I have values I believe in and certain things I stand for.
Torrey Smith
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I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.
Monica Potter
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And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.
Carrie Fisher
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I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.
David Bowie
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I never could get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, so I started wearing the wigs. It all came from a very serious place. I wanted to look a certain way.
Dolly Parton
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Just like in Christianity or Buddhism, obviously there are certain practices that dictate one's life, but I don't think you can say all Muslim women are a certain way.
Nia Long