Quotes with away

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  • Bruce Coville I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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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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  • Ann Rule I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
    Ann Rule
    American author of true crime books (0 - 2015)
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  • David Gemmell I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Burt Bacharach I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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W. Bruce Cameron I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Bill Hicks I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great. He goes, What? I'm 28.
    Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bill Hicks I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.
    Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Khaled Hosseini I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Abdul Kalam I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Bill Engvall I'd like to see the Amazon rainforests before they're all gone, and also the Galapagos - that's another one I'd like to do. I'd love to go diving in those areas. Basically, places, like, that are kind of going away, and I'd like to see them before they all become condos and high-rises.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Bryan Adams I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Derek Jarman I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • Barry Sanders I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Adam Sandler I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Benjamin Bratt I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Al Pacino I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.
    Al Pacino
    American actor and filmmaker (1940 - )
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  • John Mason Brown I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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