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If you're going to read this, don't bother. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Call me Ishmael. ↗

— Herman Melville

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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. ↗

— Rick Riordan

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When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. ↗

— Barbara Bush

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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of. ↗

— George Clooney

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People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe. ↗

— Toni Collette

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I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day. ↗

— Roger Ebert

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