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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces. ↗

— Joan Didion

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I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die. ↗

— Joan Didion

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But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of. ↗

— Larry Dixon

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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?' ↗

— Louis C. K.

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Every movie I've been in has ended up on television. ↗

— Tony Curtis

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Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them. ↗

— Joan Cusack

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Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god. ↗

— Derek Walcott

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I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently. There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film. ↗

— Peter Cushing

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