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  • Charles Barkley I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
    Charles Barkley
    American professional basketball player (1963 - )
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  • Anne Rice I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Asa Gray I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Adele I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Bryan Adams I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Will Rogers I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Robert E. Lee I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Anita Diamant I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Acker Bilk I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.
    Acker Bilk
     
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  • Bette Davis I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.
    Source: Nina J. Easton, Los Angeles Times (January 4, 1989) Bette Davis smoking over Stepmother role
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bette Midler I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.'' I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • David Malouf I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.
    Source: Johnno (2015) 107
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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  • Ann Beattie I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Antonin Artaud I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Margaret Drabble I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Oscar Wilde I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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