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  • Adrian Lyne If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Caleb Deschanel In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • E. B. White In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Richard Whately In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Alexis Carrel Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Klemens Von Metternich It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
    Klemens Von Metternich
    Austrian diplomat and statesman (1773 - 1859)
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  • Barbara Mandrell It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Bill Hicks It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bjorn Borg It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • J. Willard Marriott It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
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  • Bernard Arnault It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.
    Bernard Arnault
    French businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bing Gordon 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.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Wendell Phillips Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • John Ruskin Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bob Uecker Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Charlie Chaplin Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Light rails are too bus-like to impress most commuters, too squished and close to the ground. Monorails, by contrast, strike a chord with travelers. There's something about the sleek designs, the pillowy rides, and the panoramic views that just enchants.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Douglas Macarthur Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Germaine Greer Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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