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One For Me Quotes (page 22)

Italo Calvino quote: "The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural..."
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. Italo Calvino
Alan Bennett quote: "I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom..."
I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me. Alan Bennett
Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions! Agatha Christie
But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them. J. R. R. Tolkien
It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone? maybe even more alone? than I wa? Alice Hoffman
Its other name was Satis, which is Greek, or Latin, or Hebrew, or all three -- or all one to me -- for enough....but it meant more than it said. It meant, when it was given, that whoever had this house, could want nothing else. Charles Dickens
Charlaine Harris quote: "Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no..."
Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly Charlaine Harris
She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm hurt or cold or scared, someone will come and care for me - and how that absence could warp you so that you'd lash out at the people you loved, driving them away when all you wanted to do was pull them closer. Jennifer Weiner
Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for me: 'If there's no magic, there's no meaning.' Without magic- or call it wonder, mystery, natural wisdom- nothing has any depth. It's all just surface. You know: what you see is what you get. I honestly believe there's more to everything than that, whether it's a Monet hanging in a gallery or some old vagrant sleeping in an alley. Charles de Lint
George R. R. Martin quote: "The dungeons are windowless. One hour is much like another..."
The dungeons are windowless. One hour is much like another down there, and for me, all hours are midnight. George R. R. Martin
I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be. Frantz Fanon
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed. James Thurber
So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks. Jose Mourinho
And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me. Liza Minelli
Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that's one of the big drawbacks with anything that's permanent. How do you know how you're going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo. Stephenie Meyer

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