Quotes with off-the-hook

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  • Anne Tyler I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Leo Tolstoy I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Bryce Harper I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Alice Walker I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bruce Willis I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Ang Lee I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buddy Valastro I would love to sit at home all day and play with my kids. It's my favorite thing to do in my time off.
    Buddy Valastro
    American baker and reality television personality (1977 - )
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  • John D. Rockefeller I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Julia Roberts I wouldn't do nudity in films. To act with my clothes on is a performance. To act with my clothes off is a documentary.
    Julia Roberts
    American actress (1967 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Adam Faith I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
    Adam Faith
    English teen idol, singer, actor and financial journalist (1940 - 2003)
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  • Bryce Harper I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Ben Hecht I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Audie Murphy I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.
    Audie Murphy
    American soldier, actor and songwriter (1925 - 1971)
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  • Bill Plympton I'm much better known in France and Germany and Spain than I am in the U.S. When I go to Russia, I get mobbed; I have groups of fans waiting for me out in the hotel lobby, waiting for me to come down off the elevator. In China, I almost got beat up because people were trying to get me to do a drawing for them.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Oscar Levant I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
    Oscar Levant
    American Pianist, Actor (1906 - 1972)
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