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  • Robert Benchley It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Antoine Lavoisier It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Charles Dickens It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Camilla Belle It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Bob Saget It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Asa Gray It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Calamity Jane It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
    Calamity Jane
    American frontierswoman (1852 - 1903)
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  • Anthony Holden It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Carolyn Murphy It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Bae Doona It was extremely difficult to suppress my emotions, because my character in' A Girl at My Door' goes through so many infuriating situations. It was a lonely process having to portray someone that acts tough but is deeply hurting inside and is unable to express that.
    Bae Doona
    South Korean actress and photographer (1979 - )
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  • Caprice Bourret It was good because it helped me get where I'm at today, but then people stereotype and say we don't want to use her because she's known as the 'Wonderbra girl'.
    Caprice Bourret
    American businesswoman, model and actress (1967 - )
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  • Barry Gibb It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Billy Wilder It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Samuel Johnson It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Asa Gray It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Bill Bryson It was impossible to determine what he was saying, but I imagined he was telling all those present that they were nongs and maggots. I decided I quite liked watching the news with the sound off.
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bryn Terfel It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Alfred Einstein It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.
    Mozart, His Character, His Work (1962)
    Alfred Einstein
    German-American musicologist (1880 - 1952)
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