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I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
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I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
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I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.
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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people’s hands, people used to be shocked because they’d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
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I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.
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I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 17 -
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
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I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2005) p. 34 -
I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.
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I think what's exciting about playing a villain - particularly a villain who's totally unapologetic about their evil intentions - is that it's not anything remotely like what you get to do in real life. You're never allowed to be evil and not feel bad about it afterwards, let alone be evil, period.
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I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
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I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
Grunch of Giants (1983)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.
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