#called

When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

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All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#called #collateral #damage #destruction #happens

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football. ↗

— Jesse Plemons

#acting #because #called #crazy #football

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#author #being #book #classic #continuing

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. ↗

— Robert Quillen

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The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small! ↗

— Noel Redding

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Yeah, some kids called me fish lips because I had these really full lips. Now I'm sure all those same girls are getting collagen injections, so I'm having the last laugh. ↗

— Denise Richards

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