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“I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.”

Thinking Self Roles Strange Imperfect

Author:Maureen McCormick

“My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.”

Heart Littles Has Beens I Can House Careers Strange Involved Projects Be Good Monsters Now And Then Roof Get Involved

Author:Michael Madsen

“The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.”

Ifs Government Care Responsibility Records Seeing Strange Embrace Folks Spending Libertarian Celebrate Activist Deficit Hawks Anti Government

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I've continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do 'Conan,' I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange.”

People Action Film Guy Fighting Found Fun Four Strange Fit Exercise Training Conan Great Exercise

Author:Rose McGowan

“To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.”

Thinking Knows Persons Ideas Real Whole Happens Causes Strange Fame Tests Things Happen Peculiar Strange Things

Author:Tobey Maguire

“It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.”

People Thinking Bigs Age Girl Left Strange Freeze Big Changes

Author:Zayn Malik

“I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.”

Way Wells Enjoy Strange Understood Hungry Evening Amelie

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.”

People Trying Seems Strange Corruption Guilty

Author:Alexei Navalny

“Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game, with the exuberance of experience, the strange and terribly subtle final aims of my Asiatic Blood that remain a mystery to you.”

Play Games Mystery Blood Strange Aim Finals Jew Vices Clever Subtle Exuberance

Author:Paul Meyer

“Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their friends and relations. This is not the place to examine the strange causes of this strange state of affairs which throws a ray of light on the obscurity of our social future.”

Knows Men Looks States Light Three Social Causes Destiny Economic Strange Hundred Direct Relation Affair Jew Rays Continents Obscurity Successors Rays Of Light

Author:Walther Rathenau

“I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from "Alice in Wonderland," so we've got some strange names in our family.”

Names Strange Our Family Wonderland

Author:Brie Larson

“I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who are just the tiniest bit weird. I find enormous comfort in that - someone who's kind of normal just doesn't feel as true.”

People Feels Kind Littles Character Bits Strange Comfort Normal Enormous Authenticity

Author:Missi Pyle

“I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.”

Thinking Hard Feelings Term Strange Scene Happenings Strange Places

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.”

Ifs World Teach Strange Revolution Surprising

Author:John Polkinghorne

“I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.”

Play Guy Boys Nice Cutting Strange Serious Type Band Clean Guitar Clubs Singers Punk Nails Tattoo Polish Nice Guy Bad Boy Nail Polish

Author:Megan Fox

“I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.”

Thinking Stills Strange Legs Disability

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.”

Lying Strange Internet Strange Places

Author:Pauley Perrette

“I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.”

People Ifs Trying Sometimes Would Be Night Answers Strange Conversation Dating Personal Life All Night Snaps Paparazzi Weird Things Up All Night

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.”

“To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.”

People Kind Strange Kingdoms Geek Strange Things Nasa

Author:Mary Roach

“It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.”

Given Ability Strange

Author:Michael Richards

“People are pretty strange.”

People Strange

Author:Norman Reedus

“Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.”

Stills Girl Plans Happened Strange Normal Actresses Bus Subway

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.”

Sometimes Situation Strange Noise Odd

Author:Kid Koala

“I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.”

Thinking Littles Has Beens Done Jobs Courses Effects Strange Capitalist Engineering Engineers

Author:George Saunders

“It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.”

Trying Mind Hard Moments Seems Courses Given Goal Consciousness Strange Goes On Accounts Worthy Tiny Truthful Representation Instantaneous

Author:George Saunders

“I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.”

Happens Cities Strange Things Happen Countryside Dwellers

Author:John Sandford

“You are a stranger in a strange land. As an evolved person living in a relatively unevolved world, you are constantly subjected to a bombardment of seemingly endless negative vibrations emanating from those around you.”

World Persons Land Strange Negative Stranger Endless Vibrations Stranger In A Strange Land

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.”

Way Writing Firsts Looks Stories Happens Fiction Strange Materials Beast Observers Fiction Writers

Book:Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

Source: Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

“You need a job. You need a career. You need a focus. Otherwise, you will just pick up lots of strange psychic energy because you are not focused.”

Needs Jobs Energy Careers Focus Strange Buddhism Balance Picks Focused Psychics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.”

“I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.”

Book Sometimes Bits Strange History Books Crackers Daft

Author:Mark E. Smith

“One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.”

Two Character Girl Strange Dragons Delicate Tattoo Main Characters

Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.”

Animal Brain Strange Narcissistic Egotistical

Author:Zoe Saldana

“I don't know, I'm literally the most awkward, socially strange person.”

Knows Persons Strange Awkward Strange Person

Author:Phoebe Tonkin

“It's very strange to go from being completely secluded and doing your own work for yourself, to having an audience - and having an audience that's aware of what you do and expects you to do things that they like. It can make things difficult.”

Difficult Audience Strange Secluded

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.”

Children Ends Parent Difficult Issues Strange Aging Beginning Of Life

Author:Amy Waldman

“Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.”

Want Left Behinds Generations Dangerous Strange Perspective Cosmos Grandmother Google Left Behind Tweet Verbs New Generation New Perspective Dangerous Places

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in.”

Knows Feels Children Mother Special Strange Spots

Author:Jack White

“That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.”

Way Hours Records Strange Mood Remembered Strange Things

Author:Adam Yauch

“I was one of the richest rappers in 2008. But it was definitely a strange feeling.”

Feelings Strange Rapper

Author:Will Ferrell

“How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become silent again. Perhaps there is more. Look more deeply into the matter.”

Inspirational Humans Looks Matter Moments Strange Buddhism Glory Conscious Silent Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras.”

Teach Dangerous Strange Buddhism Awakening Entity Mystical Refined Strange Things Screwed Up Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.”

Ifs Self Term Realizing Meditation Strange Self Realization Realization Going Away Hinduism Butterfly Metamorphosis Caterpillars Cocoons

Author:Frederick Lenz

“People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people - a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be stranger than the silence one encounters when addressing a question to a text? What could be more metaphysically puzzling than addressing an unseen audience, as every writer of books must do? And correcting oneself because one knows that an unknown reader will disapprove or misunderstand?”

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.”

Source: Beyond Doubt: Faith-Building Devotions on Questions Christians Ask

“All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!”

Strange Rivers Increase Speed Faster Happy Life Flowing River

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Well, it's always strange to kiss someone with 10, 20, 40 people around.”

People Wells Strange Kissing

Author:Chris Messina

“I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.”

Thinking Stories Today Interesting Fiction Vision Roles Strange Science Fiction Intense Versions Vivid Strange Stories

Author:China Mieville

“The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.”

People Writing Strange Internet Letters Fantastic Assured Strange Places

Author:Chris Weitz

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