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  • A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
  • Phillipsburg was the name of one those badly drawn fortresses resembling a fool with his nose too close to the wall.
  • Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
  • No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
  • Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.
  • Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
  • The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
  • Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like What Sarah Said : I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.
  • It's very difficult for people who don't play video games to understand their power simply by watching, and it's very difficult for people who aren't close to technology to understand how rapidly it can change whatever it touches.
  • There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
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  • Jean Baudrillard Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Bailey Chase 'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of fun, and I was obviously very excited about the opportunity to work with Rose Byrne and Glenn Close. I'd been a fan of that show before I started working on it.
    Bailey Chase
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn 'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Anthony Holden A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Guy Finley A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.
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  • Barry Mann A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Bryan Robson A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Samuel Grafton A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
    Samuel Grafton
    American journalist and columnist (1907 - 1997)
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  • Bernard Hill Actually, parts of New Zealand remind me of Suffolk. There's not many flat bits, but just the atmosphere there. There's a kind of a core tranquility about it, a kind of assuredness that this is fairly close to approaching the perfect way to be.
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  • Buddy Valastro All of my family is so close. We're always over at each other's houses.
    Buddy Valastro
    American baker and reality television personality (1977 - )
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  • Boris Becker An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Alcuin of York And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
    Original: Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
    Epistle 127
    Alcuin of York
    English scholar, clergyman and poet
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  • Bill Vaughan As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Hesiod Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Stokely Carmichael Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Audre Lorde Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 47
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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