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  • Alice Munro I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,' or 'think you were smart.'
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Busy Philipps I was in New York and I went to a meatball shop with my friend and there was paparazzi there and I thought, 'How did you know that someone was gonna come to this meatball shop?' But I was pregnant and I wanted a meatball sub and let me tell you, it was delicious.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Bob Newhart I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Alanis Morissette I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Charles M. Schwab I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Abel Ferrara I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Al Sharpton I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Bubba Watson I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was 12. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are. If you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Anne Tyler I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Bruce Greenwood I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • Woody Allen I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bill Hicks I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great. He goes, What? I'm 28.
    Source: Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bryce Courtenay I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Busta Rhymes I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that!
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • William Shakespeare I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • T. S. Eliot I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Ronald Reagan I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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