Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Robertson Davies I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, ''I will tell you a story,'' and then he passes the hat.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Burn Gorman I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • Kofi Annan I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Adnan Pachachi I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
    Adnan Pachachi
    Iraqi and Emirati politician (1923 - 2019)
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  • Queen Victoria I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Augusten Burroughs I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Michael Ondaatje I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
    Alice Hoffman
     
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Roland Barthes I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Aldous Huxley I think that fiction. history and biography are immensely important, because they provide a picture of life now and of life in the past.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Pat Buchanan I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the impeachment enterprise and more and more as participants, or even collaborators. [On Media's Participation In Watergate]
    Pat Buchanan
    American politician author and columnist (1938 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Aaron Eckhart I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Assata Shakur I think that one of the problems that exists in the United States and in many places in the world is that people don't believe that they can make a difference. So a lot of times we're defeated before we even start. We've become consumers of a world vision, of Kentucky Fried Chicken, of McDonalds.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Angela Merkel I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Levitt I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I think that the greatest betrayal that a revolutionary can participate in is to become like the people you are struggling against. To become like your persecutors. I think that is a betrayal and a sin.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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