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  • August Wilson I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Butch Trucks I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bruce Nauman I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • George Santayana I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Willa Cather I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Art Linkletter I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Alan Cumming I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
    Alan Cumming
    Scottish-American actor, comedian, singer, and activist (1965 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I've done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it's nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Henry Rollins I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.
    Henry Rollins
    American musician, actor and writer (1961 - )
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  • Leo Rosten I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Seneca I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Don Marquis I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Man Ray I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
    Man Ray
    American visual artist (1890 - 1976)
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  • William Morris I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Anne Ford I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.
    Anne Ford
    English musician and singer (1737 - 1824)
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  • Burt Shavitz I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Bruce Johnston I really dig the scene that's happening now, I really do, because there might be a lot of bad things going on, but if out of all of those bad things ten per cent of the groovy part of it stays, wow... you can't beat that.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Dorothy Parker I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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