Quotes with ago-they

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  • Ann Beattie I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I felt compelled to perform - to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they weren’t aware how much it carried me through.
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  • J. G. Ballard I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Gore Vidal I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barbara Walters I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
    Chris Chase, A Talk With the Unsinkable Barbara Walters, New York Magazine (March 25, 1974)
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Buck Owens I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Alan Alda I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett I found out that if you made people laugh, they like you. Most people got to like me because I made them laugh. When they didn't, I hit them.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Albert Ellis I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Christopher Morley I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Samuel Johnson I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bud Grant I happened to be in a position in Superior where I could play three sports, and when I came to Minnesota, I had the understanding they would allow me to play three sports. Kids now don't have the same amount of time. You have coaches that think baseball is 10 months a year. Hockey is 11 or 12 months a year.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • John Steinbeck I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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