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People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
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People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.
Source: Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 277 -
People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.
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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
Source: White Noise (2011) 76 -
People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.
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People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
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People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
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People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.
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People have success with this method and it gets them excited. It gets them hooked. You can put layers of thick paint on thin paint and that allows you to complete a painting in one sitting.
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People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.
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People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box.
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People like you always help the far-right, because you like to hurt people, and you like to talk about how bad people are and all their personal failings.
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People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.
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People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.
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People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
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People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
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People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
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People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.
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