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  • Bill Bryson I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Frank Moore Colby I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Charles Dickens I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • John Irving I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.
    A prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Robert Bloch I have the heart of a small boy... It's in a glass jar on my desk.
    Robert Bloch
    American fiction writer (1917 - 1994)
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  • John Cleese I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
    John Cleese
    English actor, comedian and producer (1939 - )
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  • Ben Hecht I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Adele I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Dr. Seuss I like nonsense - it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
    Dr. Seuss
    American children's author, poet, and cartoonist (1904 - 1991)
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  • Theodor S. Geisel I like nonsense - it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
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  • Bruce Forsyth I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Anita Hill I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Antonio Porchia I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Aaron Eckhart I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Adam Arkin I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Brooke Elliott I want to do voiceover for animation, so I am looking to do something along those lines. So, my agent is looking for something in that area, and I think that would be a lot of fun.
    Brooke Elliott
    American actress and singer (1974 - )
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