#closely

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#bodies #branches #closely #dead #go

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#closely #excel #i #look #very

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#am #any #as far as #boat #closely

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #great

I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them. ↗

— Bai Ling

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At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#anesthetic #behind #benevolence #birth #birth control

I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#because #been #better #blair #closely

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. ↗

— John McCarthy

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