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Being Quotes
"I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous."
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"I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer."
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"If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside."
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"Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there's also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it's over."
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"Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him."
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"Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can."
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"I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along."
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"When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there."
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"And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation."
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"But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all."
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"So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones."
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"The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases."
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"I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it."
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"I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie."
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"When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable."
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"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah."
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"The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it."
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"Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence."
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"I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50."
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"I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet."
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"We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?"
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"I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead."
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"So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again."
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"I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person."
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"Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?"
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"How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?"
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