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Being Quotes
"Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married."
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"In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back."
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"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."
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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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"The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know."
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"Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children."
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"I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl."
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"There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare."
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"Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst."
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"So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe."
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"To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably."
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"A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made."
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"Not that being so mature is a bad thing, but there are times to be mature and there are times to be loose."
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"I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself."
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"There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable."
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"I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent."
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"If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves."
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"The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up."
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"Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence."
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"To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been."
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"I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be."
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"Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s."
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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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"I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader."
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"There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making faces as if I am being choked. You keep your head in a certain angle for the camera."
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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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"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."
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"Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded."
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"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."
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"We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority."
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"But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan."
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"It's not being marketed as a gay show by a gay person. It's just Ellen DeGeneres."
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"It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence."
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"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite."
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"I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown."
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