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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
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Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
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Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
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Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
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Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.
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Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
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Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.
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Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.
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Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.
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Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
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Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
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Being constantly with the children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
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Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
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Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.
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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
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Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times.
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Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.
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Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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