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  • Les Brown Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Girls usually have a paper mâché face on their wedding day.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • John Dryden Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Toni Morrison How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
    Paradise (1998)
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • John Philip Sousa I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
    John Philip Sousa
    American composer and conductor (1854 - 1932)
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  • Busy Philipps I do think moms should be given a break, all across the board. And I think that the most important thing is that you're healthy. After I had my little girl, I wanted to be healthy for her and have a healthy body image so that she hopefully grows up to see that her self worth isn't defined by how thin she is.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Burt Young I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.
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  • Rodney Dangerfield I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • E. M. Forster I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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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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  • Henry David Thoreau I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Anne Frank I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Steve Martin I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
    Steve Martin
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer and musician (1945 - )
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  • Aaliyah I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bryan Greenberg I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't want to spread yourself thin.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Camilo Jose Cela Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
    Camilo Jose Cela
    Spanish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1989) (1916 - 2002)
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  • William Shakespeare If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Paul Valery If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus If that doomsday scenario happens, will it help if you have heaps of paper money? I don't think so.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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