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“I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.”

Difficult Critics Oneself Screens Accused Being Myself

“I've often been accused of being the comic's comic. It's a bad business model when your fans are the people who get in free.”

People Comic Accused

Author:Dana Gould

“I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.”

Writing Literature Fields Research Accused Anthropology

Author:Clifford Geertz

“I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.”

Energy Republican Fellows Democrat Spending Criticize More Time Accused Time And Energy

Author:Mickey Kaus

“I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.”

Want Running Desire Company Position Demand Office My Time

Author:Carl Karcher

“I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going is one word - care. I care enough about the land, the wildlife, people, the future of humanity. If you care enough, you will do whatever you have to do, no matter what the opposition.”

People Ifs Years Matter Enough Care Lasts Humanity Land Abuse No Matter What Opposition I Care Ridicule One Word Wildlife If You Care Future Of Humanity

Author:Allan Savory

“I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever. Just sort of happy and excited to do whatever it is even if it's as simple as retrieving a ball and bringing it back ad nauseum.”

Ifs Simple Balls Excited Golden Ads Retrievers Golden Retrievers

Author:Chris Carmack

“I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than the condition they're supposed to treat. Once I even heard "heart failure" listed as a side effect, and I wondered how that happened. Heart failure sounds like a pretty major event to me, and if you're willing to risk heart failure in order to avoid the mild discomfort of some other condition, then may the gods shield you from harm, since you're obviously seeking it out.”

Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted

“I've often been given the career advice to not wear too many hats, which, of course, has just encouraged me to wear other hats, such as being a writer, being a curator, or just doing anything outside of the definition of an artist.”

Artist Courses Given Careers Advice Definitions Hats Career Advice Curator

Author:Matthew Brannon

“I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.”

Night Oscars Mistaken

Author:Glenn Close

“I've often been struck by the extensive knowledge that people have of sports, and particularly, their self-confidence in discussing it with experts. . . . In contrast, when discussing matters of concern to human lives - their own and others - people tend to defer to experts.”

People Humans Self Matter Sports Concern Self Confidence Human Life Experts Contrast Discussing

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.”

Guy Girl

Author:Hugh Bonneville

“I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.”

Bits Strange

Author:Clemence Poesy

“I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.”

World Spiritual Mother Teacher Spiritual Teachers

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I've often called the lighting for the stage the "music for the eye", because it has the same way of making an atmosphere, making a landscape, changing fluidly from one place to another without seeming effort.”

Way Eye Effort Stage Landscape Atmosphere Lighting Seeming

Author:Jennifer Tipton

“I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.”

Feels Felt

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.”

Hard Life Is Fighting Felt Deals Tragic

Author:Woody Allen

“I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.”

Might Felt Study Business Success

Author:Warren Buffett

“I've often felt unattractive or different looking. As I've grown up, I've felt more comfortable in my own skin. It may sound cliche, but when you feel beautiful and strong on the inside, it shows on the outside.”

Feels May Different Shows Beautiful Strong Felt Sound My Own Comfortable Skins Cliche Unattractive Feeling Beautiful

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.”

People Found Sides Rate Superiors Tendencies Bangs Moths Uncontrollable Firefly Second Rate

Author:Francoise Sagan

“I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.”

Film Gone Producers

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I've often gotten the feeling that the only people who have learned from computer assisted instruction are the authors.”

People Feelings Computer Instruction

Author:Ben Shneiderman

“I've often had the fortune to work on projects with a small theme I find very interesting enough to pursue and to be passionate about in the context of the story, then it may turn out there's a universality about my character which still resonates with many people as well.”

People Wells May Stills Enough Character Stories Turns Interesting Projects Fortune Passionate Pursue Theme Very Interesting Universality

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.”

Writing Process Term Quality Heard Negative Reviews Academic Tenure Academic Writing Academic Work

Author:Daniel Drezner

“I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.”

Said Might Teacher Heard Comedian Preacher

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source: Faust: A Tragedy

“I've often heard it said that there's a consensus of thousands of scientists on the global warming issue and that humans are causing a catastrophic change to the climate system. Well I am one scientist, and there are many that simply think that is not true.”

Thinking Humans Wells Said Issues Heard Scientist Climate Global Warming Consensus

Author:John Christy

“I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.”

Men Wells Said Wisdom Common Teach Wise Heard Fool

Author:Francois Rabelais

“I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation.”

Thinking Facts Hate Next Decision Generations Heard Politician Republican Office Tough Election Democrat Voters Fearful Complaints Next Generation Tough Decisions Making Tough Decisions

Author:Scott Walker

“I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea I have as I start.' I could just 'feel' how good it could be. but I decided that, for the present, I would create the best way I know how and accept the ambiguities.”

Knows Way Feels Ideas Turns Accepting Know How Projects Decided Best Way Good Ideas Ambiguity

Author:Fred Rogers

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“I've often liked a girl, made her laugh, and thought she liked me, and then found out that she didn't like me that way. I've definitely done time in the friend zone.”

Way Made Done Girl Found Laughing Like Me Zone

Author:Demetri Martin

“I've often looked at the extremes as a way to shed light on the mainstream. Even though everybody says, "Money doesn't buy you happiness," I don't think that that's the principle by which people live. If you talk to kids and ask them what they want to be when they grow up, they say, "Rich and famous," but being rich and famous is not a job.”

People Thinking Kids Growing Up Rich Shed

Author:Lauren Greenfield

“I've often lost faith in myself, I've never lost it in my family.”

Lost My Family Lost Faith

Author:David Sedaris

“I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake”

Order Lost Awake Lost Myself

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.”

People Knows Want Trying Failing Mets Terrified Jackets Fear Of Failing

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.”

Looks Able Fronts

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.”

People Said Happens Age Happenings This Day

Author:Diana Wynne Jones

Source: Fire and Hemlock

“I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.”

Rights Links Womens Rights Weakest Link

Author:Jean Sasson

“I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.”

Way Kind Mean Real Strong Real Life Very Strong Flashy

Author:Holland Taylor

“I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!”

Ifs World Rooms Christianity Lord Mystery Obvious Practicals Collapse Disciple Our Lord Trinity

Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson

“I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.”

Has Beens Past Guy Force Stars Week Couple Down And Following Campaigns Presidential Feds Dozen Episodes Presidential Campaign

Author:Patrick Stewart

“I've often said if I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.”

Ifs Said Song

Author:Leonard Cohen

“I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.”

Ifs Knows Years Said Ends Problem Past Evil Years Ago Paychecks Mtv

Author:Martha Plimpton

“I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.”

Ifs Writing Humans Said Real Reality Political House Deals Poet Sitting Drinking Response Glasses Tea Poetry Is Glass Houses Drinking Tea

Author:Yehuda Amichai

“I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it's not where you'll find your sense of completion.”

People Said Dream Realizing Wealth Fame Completion

Author:Jim Carrey

“I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.”

Said Taught Rats

Author:B. F. Skinner

“I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.”

Giving Children Said Important Sometimes Able Important Things Wings Your Children Nests

Author:Elizabeth Edwards

“I've often said that the only thing I can change with magick is myself. I believe that. Whatever changes I wish to effect with magick, the first and only thing that will be directly changed by my magical operation will be me. Once I am changed, then the new changed me will then somehow affect or attract the desired object of my operation.”

Firsts Believe Said I Can Self I Believe Wish Effects Objects Changed Operations Opera

Author:Lon Milo DuQuette

Source: Low Magick: It's All In Your Head ... You Just Have No Idea How Big Your Head Is

“I've often said that the seventh paramita should be a sense of humor, so we don't take ourselves too seriously.”

Should Said Sense Of Humor

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block”

Writing Said Ideas Problem Block Writer's Block

Author:Jeffery Deaver

“I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm working on a brief passage in a novel or brainstorming about an entire book-it's usually because I'm trying to shoehorn an idea into the passage or story where it has no place.”

Trying Said Book Ideas Stories Problem Inspiration Novel Block Passages Frozen Writer's Block Brainstorming

Author:Jeffery Deaver

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