Quotes with 4-and-a-half

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  • Anita Desai I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Antonio Gramsci I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
    Antonio Gramsci
    Italian writer, politician and political scientist (1891 - 1937)
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  • Philip Roth I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Edward Gibbon I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Arthur Capper I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Adolf Hitler I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Anish Kapoor I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Auberon Herbert I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Bruce Willis I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Jerome K. Jerome I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
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  • Allen Ginsberg I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Adam Arkin I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Brooke Elliott I want to do voiceover for animation, so I am looking to do something along those lines. So, my agent is looking for something in that area, and I think that would be a lot of fun.
    Brooke Elliott
    American actress and singer (1974 - )
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