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“Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and vision. Liberal Arts is the best movie about college I’ve seen since I don’t know what...Dryly affectionate and super-sharp. Elizabeth Olsen is every inch a star.”

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Author:Owen Gleiberman

“A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.”

Certain Girl Love Is Boys Pretty Girl Admiring True Love Is Rare Things

Author:Alex Flinn

“It's a rare thing when you can read a script in one sitting and you haven't looked at the watch or you've gone to make a cup of tea.”

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Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Paper after paper, study after study, have shown that chairs give us back problems because they shorten our hip flexors, give us weak backs, of course it make us sedentary. We take years off our lives probably by sitting in chairs, but we like them because they're comfortable. You go to an African village, you find me a chair with a back. That's a rare thing out there.”

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Author:Daniel Lieberman

“Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to get him the sack, so he left the gentlemen of the press with something of a void. And they abhor a void. Soon the discovery that Sven was in fact a hammer-man of legendary proportions filled the void, until the media came to realise that Sven was that rare thing, a man whose astonishing success with women somehow didn't make him more interesting.”

“Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics. Civility reigns, voices are not raised, much goes unsaid. But just beneath the sophisticated composure are longing, loss, heartbreak. And how intensely familiar is the table itself, which made this reader suddenly understand how much of our real life takes place there. Heather A. Slomski is truly a fresh voice on the scene, and The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons is that rare thing, a new book as innovative in its design as it is compulsively readable.”

“everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.”

Humor Humour Fancy Rare Things

Author:Olivia Robertson

“When I first heard John Smith my attention was captured by his sweet, earthy voice and fine craftsmanship, but what drew me in was his heart. It's clear that he's lived the pain in his songs and that his optimism is hope born of wisdom. That's a rare thing and a gift to all who hear him.”

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Author:Tom Kimmel

“The man believes the woman's got the hidden secret. That's a rare thing. You meet lots of people, and they're all deserved of love, of course, but romantic love involves some kind of supplement: she has the secret. That's what's desired.”

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Author:John Maus

“It is quite a common and vulgar thing among humans to understand, foresee, know and predict the troubles of others. But oh what a rare thing it is to predict, know, foresee and understand one's own troubles.”

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Author:Francois Rabelais

“It's a great feeling to be a part of something - see it from beginning to end - and it's a rare thing that anyone gets to do in any business.”

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Author:Ralph Strangis

“A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.”

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Author:Confucius

“Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he's thinking about what he's saying while he's saying it, and that's a rare thing in politicians.”

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Author:Roy Blount, Jr.

“That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the time.”

People Laughing Admire Make You Laugh Rare Things

Author:Ed Helms

“And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.”

Enough Teacher Lucky Louisiana Rare Things

Author:William Joyce

“What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.”

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Author:Andre Gide

“There is no harder lesson for man to learn than the lesson of humility. It is the rarest of all gifts. It is a very rare thing to find a man or woman that is following closely the footsteps of the Master in meekness and humility.”

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Author:Dwight L. Moody

“To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“I hate losing laughs; they're rare things.”

Hate Laughing Losing I Hate Rare Things

Author:Terry Gilliam

“My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.”

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Author:James Thayer

“I think most of us, as writers, have had experiences where you get edited and it doesn't feel like your voice at all. And so it's been nice to go through the experience of having a lot wind up on the cutting-room floor, and yet still feel that your voice is being - not purified, but made more yourself. I think that's a very rare thing.”

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Author:Sarah Stillman

“People always - when you rise, whenever you're getting to a point where you're a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren't going to like you.”

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Author:Adam Levine

“Right now it feels like we're playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That's a very rare thing in a person's life to be able to be a part of that. It's a responsibility I take seriously.”

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Author:A-Trak

“A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them”

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Author:John Gummer

“Nelson Mandela was just a human being, a person like other people, and everyone relaxed. Within a minute, that sort of thing about the leader and the lead, the gap was closed, and that's a rare thing.”

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Author:Kumi Naidoo

“I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.”

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Author:Anna Kendrick

“It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.”

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Author:Debra Messing

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”

Source: The American Crisis

“I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.”

Thinking Rare Things

Author:Laura Prepon

“I am a huge Prince fan. It's a very rare thing for him to have people open for him. It's been the Time and Sheila E., and that's about it. Building a relationship with him has been like a dream come true. I've been looking for a mentor, and I feel like I have that in him.”

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Author:Jill Scott

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain

“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”

Source: The Happy Prince

“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”

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Book:Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

Source: Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

“The reason I know what we are to each other is because we fight freely and almost constantly, about even the smallest thing. In fact, once we didn't speak for an entire week because he didn't like the way I loaded his dishwasher...I can't decide if we're exact opposites, or somehow exactly the same except for minor cosmetic differences. I do know that all of his friends hate me and all of my friends hate him. We drive each other crazy in ways that nobody else can even touch. We never bore each other. And we both realize what a rare thing this is.”

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Author:Augusten Burroughs

“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.”

Has Beens Rare Things

Book:The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

“its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him”

Knows Core Rare Things

Author:Dean Koontz

“RJD was pretty much heavy metal personified, a tiny 5-foot-4-inch sorcerer with a mangy mane, demonic eyes and sly grin, all coupled to a simply huge, operatic voice, a diminutive powerhouse who prowled the stage like a feline elf and who was, it turns out, also finely intelligent and well spoken, an actual gentleman in a genre known all too well for its bombastic, monosyllabic doltbuckets. A rare thing indeed.”

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Author:Mark Morford

“Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.”

“Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.”

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Author:Andre Gide

“Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.”

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Book:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“If you’re the girl that needs a boyfriend, and once she loses that boyfriend needs to replace it with a different boyfriend, it’s just this constant stream of boyfriends all the time. I don’t feel like I ever want to be that girl. I want to be the girl that when she falls in love, it’s a big deal and it’s a rare thing.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.”

Knows Beautiful Lying Arguing Fragile Rare Things

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

“Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.”

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Author:Deb Caletti

“You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it." "You're a hard person to comfort," Augustus said. "Easy comfort isn't comforting," I said.”

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Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.”

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Author:Jean Anouilh

“Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.”

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Book:The poetry of the Brownings: an anthology

Source: The poetry of the Brownings: an anthology

“The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one and it would not be a wasted life.”

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Author:Ken Watanabe

“I'm grateful that on a lot of casts I've gained friends for life. But it's more of a rare thing than a normal thing. I have a small group of friends, and I just, uh, feel fulfilled by the people that are in my life.”

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Author:Matt Czuchry

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