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“If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.”

People Ifs Knows Way Needs Kind Character Running Space Cities Treats Who You Are

Author:Chris Messina

“Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.”

Needs Wells Looks Running Desire House Space Laughing Doors Sky Cold Involved Fit Jokes Window Blow Heat Nerves

Author:Aimee Bender

“In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.”

Source: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will. As I run I displace air, and things come and go around me, and the path moves like a filmstrip beneath my feet.”

Ifs Body Running Moving Ability Space Existence Path Air Feet Movement Solitude Survival Proof Obedience Temporary Calmness Comes And Goes Euphoria

Book:The Time Traveler's Wife

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?”

Running Space Race Ocean Shifting Boundless

Author:Bayard Taylor

“Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.”

Wells Running Space Race Fading

Book:Poems and other pieces published by the late Lord Bishop of Rochester; with some account of his life and writings

Source: Poems and other pieces published by the late Lord Bishop of Rochester; with some account of his life and writings

“According to a British poll, you've only got a one in five chance of achieving your childhood career ambition. Which probably explains why you don't run into that many cowboys, princesses, or space rangers.”

Running Chance Space Careers Five Childhood Achieve Ambition British Your Children Princess Cowboy Polls Rangers

Author:Jay Leno

“Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.”

Ifs Sometimes Running Space Lows Towns Regard Small Town Familiarity Personal Space

Book:There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble

Source: There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble