Quotes with out-of-the-gates

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  • W. H. Auden My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Ajay Naidu My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Bill Paxton My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I'd go out back with the dog and bring them in.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Ben Affleck My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Barry Marshall My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II and donated to our family after seeing how interested we were in it. Each volume had special chapters called 'Things Boys can Do.' My brothers and I would pick out interesting projects.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Ben Marcus My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Bruce Sutter My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Boomer Esiason My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Billy Strayhorn My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
    Billy Strayhorn
    American jazz composer and pianist (1915 - 1967)
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  • Blanche Lincoln My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Ben Folds My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Willem De Kooning My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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  • Ben Folds My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Bill Walton My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Charles M. Schultz My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right.
    Charles M. Schultz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • Beth Ditto My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bill Hader My life is different since I moved back to L.A. from New York, mostly because I have a family and I don't go out.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Bailee Madison My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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