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I was really shocked when all these DVDs came with interviews. It was a great preparation.
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Yes, we were all shocked. I don't think anybody really knew it was coming.
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A really great album came out of it, but what it did was leave all these other tracks that I'd done ...
GLENN TIPTON
I was a little shocked at it. It really did surprise me.
BRIAN CHAPMAN
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU
He was signing a lot of autographs and doing a lot of interviews. But when he finally came out of th...
KEVIN KELLY
He was a good guy and a good worker. We were all shocked. He was great to work with and we all enjoy...
BRANDON CURTIS
I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenl...
JOHN SIMM
I thought it was gone I was shocked when it hit the wall.
BRIAN SNITKER
I thought it was gone — I was shocked when it hit the wall.
BRIAN SNITKER
We didn't know anything like this was coming. It kind of came out of the blue, ... It was disappoint...
CLARE PHILLIPS
Hugo is my family now. I've always had Great Danes, but Hugo is the most loving dog I've ever had. W...
ANNA LEE
I want to make sure when we came here that they felt comfortable with each other, that they felt goo...
NANCY LOPEZ
I was actually really impressed with that. To get out there and break 54 seconds, I was really shock...
JODIE HENRY
We really came to play. It was a great team effort.
COACH RUSTY TAYLOR
It was a great basketball game. The most important thing coming into this game (was) we had to get o...
DOUG STIVERSON
I think everyone was really so shocked, ... There was really surprisingly little discussion.
ROBERT GROSSMAN
It's true, I came up with the idea for SUMMERLAND, but it was a total fluke. Nobody was more shocked...
LORI LOUGHLIN
MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Ma...
CARSON DALY
MTV was such a great training for me. I did (live interviews) with everyone from Michael Jackson to ...
CARSON DALY
Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, ...
WAYLON JENNINGS
There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black...
KARA WALKER
I made all these films and I had all kinds of great experiences. I worked with the great filmmakers ...
GEORGE SIDNEY
I was born and bred to be a great flirt.
CYBILL SHEPHERD
His soul's fabric was weaving itself with mine. I loved the frayed ends where it came unraveled, and...
JERI SMITH-READY
When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories thr...
NINA ARIANDA
They knew it was on their shoulders when it was like 7-all. I was really proud of Tara and Sarah, th...
JIM SHEEHAN
We came out and pounded it right at them. We wanted to get off to a good start and we came out with ...
CASSIE SCHROCK
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
She's amazing. I was shocked I was able to do that because she's so great.
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Everything (we wanted) when we came into the game was there. I thought we had a great offensive game...
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'Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with i...
EMILY BROWNING
When I spoke to the Haller family to tell them the resolution was going to be passed, they were shoc...
LARRY THOMAS
It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were askin...
EMILY PROCTER
I was shocked when I found that out.
JANET WRIGHT
I was trying for a few years to get on full-time and when the opportunity came it was great,
BRETT MILLER
And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
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No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER
When my husband and I first got married, I was so shocked at my own level of joy that I was convince...
TAYLOR JENKINS REID
They came in with a fastball when it was 2-1 and I was really expecting it. It was something I shoul...
DANNY HAMBLIN
When ABC called me, I was literally shocked,
DAN HARRIS
I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this gre...
DANE COOK
When I think of 'Mad Dog Time,' I think of the fact that I got to drive fast cars all day lo...
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He had all these great scenes with his son before pulling the plug. It was really moving the materi...
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He had all these great scenes with his son before pulling the plug. It was really moving — the mate...
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It's big. I was shocked when I ran out there. It's kind of breathtaking, but it was a lot of fun.
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But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
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When I walked into the room where the paintings were, I was completely shocked... It was very emotio...
JOSE FRECHES
I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation b...
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This was very, very scary, doomsday legislation for business. When the House bill passed, I realized...
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The season has been amazing so far. I was shocked at first, but when the fans came out on the court ...
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I was frightened. I hadn't really had any experience, and then all of a sudden I was thrown stra...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN
I thought it was gone — I was shocked when it hit the wall.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what ...
ADAM MCKAY
She was in a lot of pain. And when she came home it was really tough.
KATHY MATHEWS
They're doing great. I was joking with them that all they needed to do was run a perfect race, and t...
DANA HOUSE
It's funny because I remember when I came to the U.S. with 'Swimming Pool,' the movie di...
LUDIVINE SAGNIER
I had a great book and a great script to work as my raw materials, but when I got out on to the set ...
JASON SCHWARTZMAN
I had a great book and a great script to work as my raw materials, but when I got out on to the set ...
JASON SCHWARTZMAN
We're all shocked and overcome with a great feeling of sadness.
JANE SMITH
It was great to win and great to break 2:20, those were my goals coming here this weekend the last t...
DEENA KASTOR
I wasn't really pleased on how we came out against Hamilton. But it was a great learning experience ...
LAND TAWNEY
I don't remember who came up with the handshake idea, but it was a great one.
MIKE O'CAIN
It was an off year; I was shocked,
SHERYL CROW
I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never ...
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Santana really showed the afterburners. I was out there, and I was shocked at how fast he was runnin...
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I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all tra...
PAUL MERTON
We had some great talent on the team. I was really impressed. Things really came out great in the en...
JASON MAJEWSKI
Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
RAFAEL DOS ANJOS
I felt really bad. It was probably the worst feeling I've had on a shot. I was just happy nobody got...
DAVE KELLY
I wasn't naive, but at the end of my Miss America year, when two different executives attacked m...
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I think that we came out and we really shocked some people, ... which is what our plan was - to come...
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I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised wh...
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I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but ...
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It came down to all the help we got. All of this was donated time, just volunteers coming together w...
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Then a young girl came out of one of these condemned buildings carrying an old doll, ... And I reali...
DANNY WUERFFEL
I was pretty shocked because he isn't really a small act in any way, so it was impressive to hear th...
BRANDON TOBIAS
I was shocked. I never encouraged her ... to go into business with us. It was solely their desire.
LINDA BASSETT
Because all these fans came out to see us in this kind of weather, I really didn't want to go to ext...
ATSUYA FURUTA
I was born in India - but never really lived there.
AASIF MANDVI
We got spanked against Beaverton and it was a little shocking. I was really proud of how we responde...
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I have a lot of memories with these people. It was great recording with Hendrix [and] playing with S...
DAVE MASON
My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
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There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated ...
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Inspector Rebus is a great character, so when the opportunity came up to revive the role for 'BB...
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The IPO market is all about windows opening and closing. These all came out when the window was open...
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Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one
MARGARET ATWOOD
All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when ...
SHAMEIK MOORE
I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I did...
EMMANUEL JAL
It was fun in Sacramento, man. The way they played basketball was great. It's a great place for a fa...
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That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by the...
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Overall, it was a great meet. The kids did well. The guys came out of it feeling really good.
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It became obvious during the interviews that there was one person that really fit our situation and ...
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I saw it, he wanted to buy something he was near to the store I went to see little far from him what...
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He served with distinction, weathered storms, cold and heat. He came through it all real well and wa...
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When I came back, there was a huge series of celebrations, ... There was Jane Swagerty Day and the C...
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I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, ...
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I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.
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It feels great. Just playing with all these guys is unreal. And getting this outcome in the game was...
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Popularity? It's glory's small change.
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He does not weep who does not see.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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Popularity is glory's small change.
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VICTOR HUGO
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
VICTOR HUGO
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
VICTOR HUGO
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
VICTOR HUGO
King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close ...
VICTOR HUGO
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
VICTOR HUGO
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
VICTOR HUGO
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO
The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
VICTOR HUGO
You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It...
VICTOR HUGO
A library implies an act of faith
VICTOR HUGO
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
VICTOR HUGO
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their...
VICTOR HUGO
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this i...
VICTOR HUGO
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
VICTOR HUGO
Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing ...
HUGO HAMILTON
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
VICTOR HUGO