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“It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.”

Knows Persons Strange Tvs My Friends Red Magazines Interviews Carpet Red Carpet

Author:Maria Sharapova

“Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to Boston.”

World Different Whole Stars Fans Strange Tough Whole World Locals Boston Hometown Aerosmith

Author:Rob Sheffield

“For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.”

People Way Firsts Social Novel Strange Tools Western China Contact Chinese Goods Vehicle Commerce Social Change

Author:Hu Shih

“Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.”

Men Giving Years Hard Found Born Strange Birth Forgiving Fruit Ancient Protest Hard Things Through The Years Matriarchs

Author:Lillian Smith

“Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.”

Thinking Feels Doe Facts Jobs My Own Ability Strange Normal Who I Am Disappointed Shopping Frustrated Normal Life

Author:Robert Smith

“I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'”

Knows World Feels Left Behinds Position Strange Bother Left Behind Drifting Drifting Away

Author:Robert Smith

“I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?”

Want Should Children Littles Perfect Strange Monsters Should I

Author:Wilbur Smith

“It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.”

Strange Rap Confession Funny Things Microphones

Author:Zadie Smith

“The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.”

Should Real Artist Class Strange Roots Appearance Rap Authenticity Rapper Being Real Mainstream Working Class Ghetto

Author:Zadie Smith

“L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.”

World Real Seems Bits Strange Real World

Author:Hope Solo

“There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.”

Thinking Strange Odd Abraham Strange Things

Author:Steven Spielberg

“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”

Source: The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl

“Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.”

Thinking Firsts May Long Together Lasts Turns Literature Brain Strange Horror Let Me Mad Nerves Accurate Strain Vans Strange Things Van Helsing

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.”

Ifs Film Turns Strange Twenties Independent Manage Accomplishment Bottles Chips Thrilling Bucks Glue Independent Film Sense Of Accomplishment

Author:Eric Stoltz

“On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.”

Way Kids Jobs Given My Own Levels Strange Personality Drawing Backgrounds

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.”

Knows Way Feels Years Littles School Causes Bits Interesting Seeing Havens Strange Little Bit High School Coming Back Good Way Lockers Handmade

Author:Taylor Swift

“I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.”

Acting Strange Likes Beast Advocating Corsets

Author:Cate Blanchett

“It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”

Inspirational Years Time Waiting Teach Greater Strange Capacity Patience Maturity Our Time Great Patience Patience And Waiting Short Patience Being Patience Time And Patience Time Patience

Book:A wreath of roses

Source: A wreath of roses

“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.”

Years Heart Wisdom Wise Strange Broken Broken Heart

Book:Flame and Shadow

Source: Flame and Shadow

“'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.”

Thinking Men May Women Strange Angel Dating Strangeness

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.”

Inspirational Years Seems Would Be Today Audience Rocks New York Students Strange Years Ago Medicine Dance Medical Fifty Tribes Boston Festivals Atlanta Savvy Biodegradable Medical Knowledge

Author:Lewis Thomas

“Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.”

People Knows Giving Suffering Humanity Security Strange Prison Cells Collectives Dogma Strange Things Prison Cells

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.”

May Seems Stupid Strange Amount Stupidity Silly Cures Formal Positively Strangeness Formal Education

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

“I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.”

Doe Answers Mines Strange Machines Answering Machines

Author:Christopher Walken

“I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.”

People Said Wanted Literature Strange Actresses They Said Strange Things Great Literature

Author:Julie Walters

“I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.”

Animal Watches Too Much Strange Tiny Cruelty Toms Jerry Tom And Jerry

Author:Julie Walters

“I guess, in a way, I grew up mixed race: half white, half black. That question's always been on my mind: 'What are you? Are you this or that? Are you a white dude or are you a black dude?' In a strange way, music and comedy is kind of the same thing. I'm both.They're just different modes of expression.”

Way Mind Kind Different Black White Race Half Comedy Strange Expression Grew Grew Up Mixed Race

Author:Reggie Watts

“My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters.”

Mind Different Character Father Stars Space Watches Strange Planets Aliens

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.”

Truth Powerful Honesty Strange Excellence Truth And Lies Nothing But The Truth Saying The Truth

Book:Legal arguments and speeches to the jury. Diplomatic and official papers. Miscellaneous letters

Source: Legal arguments and speeches to the jury. Diplomatic and official papers. Miscellaneous letters

“My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.”

Kind Bigs Used Stuff Rooms Cutting Strange Couple Bird Newspapers Shops Fascinated Drowning Collecting Junk Headlines Antiques Morbid Weird Things Weird Stuff Taxidermy Newspaper Headlines

Author:Florence Welch

“I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.”

Style Strange Clothes Costumes Rave

Author:Florence Welch

“I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.”

Knows Way Years Children Moments Able Heard Strange Marvelous Discouraging Spoiled

Book:Orson Welles: Interviews

Source: Orson Welles: Interviews

Men Care School Strange Beats Painful Teenager Isolation Existential Adolescence Humiliation Humiliated Nobody Cares Being A Teenager Ladies Man

Author:Joss Whedon

“When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.”

Thinking Feet Strange Wall Woods Intense Snow Giants Launching

Author:Shaun White

“When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.”

Way Years Girl Grows Talking Growing Up Strange Hanging Out Cartoon Pokemon

Author:Shaun White

“I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.”

Happens Hours Wonder Morning Strange Get Up Bored Every Morning Glamorous Intervals Glamorous Life Lady Luck

Author:William Allen White

“What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.”

Ifs World Humor Would Be Strange Sense Of Humor Advocating Strange World

Author:Bernard Williams

“Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.”

Way Heart Mean Persons Moving Grief Missing Strange Rivers Optimistic More Time Bereavement Missing Someone Strange Things Optimistic Person

Author:Michelle Williams

“Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.”

Strange Becoming Strange Things Becoming Famous

Author:Carnie Wilson

“I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or published. I get invitations to go to all sorts of strange countries where I would mostly be by myself and just meet other people there, instead of having travelling companions.”

People Ifs World Country My Own Deals Successful Strange Scientist Companion Invitations

Author:Robert Winston

“In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.”

Knows Heart Beautiful Lying Night Sleep United Darkness Dying Strange Naked Death And Dying No Sleep

Book:The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe

Source: The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe

“A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.”

People Knows Economy Strange Strange Things Advocating Hacking Computer Hacking

Author:Steve Wozniak

“I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.”

Feels Humility Strange Disease Architecture Advocating

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.”

Way Literature Strange Depression Mental Health Fallen Prozac Prozac Nation

Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.”

People Way Mind Has Beens Play Eye Faith Belief Change Challenges Strange Blessing Mindset Tricks Things Change

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.”

Firsts I Can Kids Lasts Remember Time Three Goal Happened Strange Normal First Time Soccer Sensations Advocating

Author:Zinedine Zidane

“But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.”

Thinking Bigs Found Deals Attitude Strange Band Big Deal

Author:Rob Zombie

“Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.”

Jobs Acting Strange

Author:Romola Garai

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