You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?
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BEAGLE [But how similar does she believe the Peter Mullan character also called Michael Scot is to th... LOUISE YEOMAN Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it i... NEIL SIMON God is always on time, it may not be the time you are expecting, but hes on time. Just like he said ... ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a ligh... REBECCA STEAD What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL We get letters all the time about him wearing his hat backward and how it makes him look like a drug... BRENDA ROETHLISBERGER You can't stop a big guy like that. You just have to hope he doesn't totally destroy you. If you do ... BILLY GILLISPIE You see a guy like Marquand get thrust into a role and you're not sure what's going to happen, but t... MIKE HOLMGREN We are all artists in everything we do. Art is creating; it is our link that makes us like god. All ... BETHANY JANE ANDREWS HOEY When he's introduced and he starts that loud scream — I'm sure you can all hear it across the way ... JIM CALHOUN His noise is getting quieter, but I can still see it there still- See how he feels the skin of ... PATRICK NESS The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in 'The Dark Knight' had the scar across his mouth,... THE WEEKND You could tell what he really wanted to do in life. Deep down, he really wanted to do it. He wanted ... BRYAN HASSLER People are always talking about momentum, but I don't believe in momentum. Momentum changes with one... BOB BOONE When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN See how the jig flutters. I have to get him teased up enough to take it, put it all the way in his m... STEVE ANDERSON The last game I was just watching this guy. You know how good he is, how amazing of a player he is. ... THOMAS DAVIS So much of how we see the world is the matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and hoping rath... EMILY GIFFIN God gave you life not for how you define him but he wants to see that how you can define yourself. VIKRANT PARSAI Booze makes you stupid and like it. It makes you fall around and not care. And eventually, stupid is... PLEASEFINDTHIS I cry when I think of you....... Doesn't that seem like the sweetest thing in the whole world; to he... KAYLA RAE Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another b... LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Everyone wants Steve to do well because he really is the nicest guy you would ever come across. When... JUDD APATOW Everyone wants Steve to do well because he really is the nicest guy you would ever come across. When... JUDD APATOW Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the... GREGORY MAGUIRE The question is not if you're willing to die for her. The question is, can you live without her? SAMANTHA VAN LEER You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book. JODI PICOULT To look is one thing, to see what you look at is another, to understand what you see is a third, to ... SOURCE UNKNOWN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see... DAPHNE GUINNESS The reason you have to do this is you have to let them know that you're real, ... I had one guy say,... JAMIE FOXX The fish is that perfect, amazing guy it can never work out with—you know, a bird and a fish may f... LISA DAILY How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving. CRAIG GROESCHEL The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposter... STEVE ALBINI Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry thems... ANDRE BENJAMIN No one wants everyone to know how sick they are and everyone to see how much they are struggling. An... ERIN FOSTER (..)-Dr. G. would later say that the whole "my whole life flashed before me" phenomenon at the end i... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE He's not a complicated guy. He just wants us to play basketball the way we know how and not worry ab... CHAD HETTERMANN He was smart little guy. He was pretty mischievous too. You can see that in his pictures. You can se... DAN MORRIS I just want you to know that where ever life takes you, I'll always be happy for you as long as its ... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Stan wants to win. You have to figure out what keeps him from getting 21 in the second half too. In ... SEAN MILLER His name is Christian,” he calls back. “Can you believe that? We came all this way so Clara... CYNTHIA HAND That's what they all say. Everyone says they want to know you, but they don't. They want to know the... CHELSEA M. CAMERON We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn... SARAH DESSEN This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there. You can look at an empty space and... NAOMI ALDERMAN ... Any guy that's going to get shot for his art, that's an actor who will go [all the] way with you... QUENTIN TARANTINO The guy is very loyal to his country and the people there. I know he wants to pitch in it, but he ha... GUY CONTI See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum... and one night, one night they decide they don'... ALAN MOORE I think Jeremy wants things, and I think that's a great moment when (Mirabelle) says, 'You should ju... CLAIRE DANES True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter. JOHN GREEN I is the hardest word to define. JOHN GREEN Break hearts, not promises. JOHN GREEN It's all about riding. Everyone wants to know if it's hard. 'How do you do that?' You don't just lea... KYLE MILLER They can play any time they want, and just match scorecards. We don't put in wind, so the conditions... LENNY SHAW In his mind, I don't know how he justifies that. When you lay it on the line for a guy and you're lo... DON SOLDINGER You can learn a lot from Moose - how to practice, how to study film, how to run routes and how to st... BERNARD BERRIAN He's so awesome. He tries to get the best out of me. He's always positive and he wants to win. You c... KATHERINE SNODGRASS Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know. CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he... MACY GRAY Brian's a guy that we all would like to have a long-term contract with. He wants to stay. We want hi... JEFFREY LURIE You can see it in his face. He is excited. I can tell. Last year he was down in the dumps. You can t... MARK WALTERS Everyone says that the internet is so awesome because you can connect with people from all over the ... SARAH OCKLER Hopefully when you see the movie, Maybe you don't have the Orlando in your life, but you know th... SHEMAR MOORE The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK ... You asked how am I?? Really?? So you care about me?? or you just decided to ask to return it bac... DEYTH BANGER It's an old cliche, but I'm an old coach so I can use it: All it takes is all you got. You look at h... AL VISCONTI I'm such a dork, but I really think there are derivatives to be found between story arcs and cha... MORGAN SAYLOR We believe the only way that you can learn from an event is to really look at it and be honest about... BRIAN TERRETT Most people act/believe the way they do for a reason. If you can empathize, understand WHY, you can ... DIANE NEAL Just because everyone is behaving like a clown, it doesn’t mean you have to join the circus. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action... GEORGES CLEMENCEAU It (the situation) kinda makes us wish that we can fight everyday so everyone can just, you know, li... BRIAN VILORIA I believe he's his own worst enemy at times, ... I don't know if there's a guy on this team who work... BRETT FAVRE 'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects t... TOBIN BELL You're not going to see that guy mad ? at all. A lot of people know Santana for what he does on the ... CARLOS SILVA They say, 'How can you trust a mechanic? How can you trust the FAA? How do you trust the National Tr... DUANE BROWN It's very sad, but he was?and his mom really wants everyone to know?a soldier, and he loved what he ... EVELYN FOX Oh, wow. All you can say is, 'Wow.' It was like a circus, but a fun circus to watch. JEFF MORROW It was kind of difficult - just the mannerisms, the way they would act and the dancing. It's really ... BRANDON LITTLE I think you can learn a lot about a guy from the way that he talks to you and the way that he compli... ALY MICHALKA You know how you can think you know someone or think you know them but maybe you only know them one ... CARRIE RYAN This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is. DENNIS RODMAN I'm just hoping he can push his way through, ANTHONY ROBERTS PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA Just because I won last year doesn't mean anything. You can't overlook anybody at this level because... JUSTIN RIVERA At the point guard position, he's just so much stronger than everybody else. Even when he gets a guy... MARCUS KNOTT Not everyone thinks the way you think, knows the things you know, believesthe things you believe, no... ARTHUR FORMAN Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may... DOUGLAS ADAMS It's very hard. You see the score and you want to slack up. But you can't because Cal is on the side... RODNEY CARNEY
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Maybe that's beause it's all a... JODI PICOULT In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk a... JODI PICOULT Love is not a because, it's a no matter what. JODI PICOULT You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it coul... JODI PICOULT I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got ... JODI PICOULT You were in business making meth? Do you have any idea what that drug does to people?" We... JODI PICOULT Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice JODI PICOULT Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't... JODI PICOULT People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know. JODI PICOULT The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, ... 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When you told someone how you felt, t... JODI PICOULT Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you... JODI PICOULT Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved y... JODI PICOULT There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations JODI PICOULT I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitti... JODI PICOULT It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did... JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee... JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else? JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ... JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of ( JODI PICOULT When you read the art, JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w... JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa... JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th... JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e... JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth. JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l... JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug... JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it? JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D... JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c... JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid. JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p... JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon... JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms ar... JODI PICOULT