Long Quotes
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I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.
Poppy Montgomery
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There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural Book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings.
Salmon Portland Chase
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As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.
Chris Van Allsburg
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I've been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get into the slower rhythm of nature.
John Mackey
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I started questioning gender-based assumptions a long time ago. When I was eight, I was confused at being called 'bossy,' because I wanted to direct the plays that we would put on for our parents - but the boys were not.
Emma Watson
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For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound.
Emily Haines
Broken Social Scene
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Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.
Philip K. Dick
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In greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...
Hyman G. Rickover
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Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
William Lewis Safir
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Through long and bitter experience, Rajasinghe had learned never to trust first impressions, but also never to ignore them.
Arthur C. Clarke
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If he could have his way, Satan would distract us from our heritage. He would have us become involved in a million and one things in this life-probably none of which is very important in the long run-to keep us from concentrating on the things that are really important, particularly the reality that we are God's children. He would like us to forget about home and family values. He'd like to keep us so busy with comparatively insignificant things that we don't have time to make the effort to understand where we came from, whose children we are, and how glorious our ultimate homecoming can be!
Marvin J. Ashton
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It is the one event in my life of which I am most ashamed and I have long feared would be made public.
John Major
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I think the universe was preparing me to be an actor. I never pursued one thing for long, but I was jack of all trades. I was learning everything possible because I knew my father would never shell out money for dresses or parties, but he would always give me money for new courses and books.
Divyanka Tripathi
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The arc of the American story is long, it is bumpy and uncertain, but it always bends toward a more perfect union.
Jeh Johnson
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Interviewer: 'So Jeff, what are your main musical influences?' Jeff (after a long pause): 'Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally.'
Jeff Buckley
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I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.
Colin Quinn
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By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of 'the soul of goodness in things evil;' by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness.
Frederick William Robertson
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When medical students focus on helping others, they're able to weather the slings and arrows of long hours and devastating health outcomes: they know their colleagues and patients are depending on them.
Adam Grant
