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You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.


Rae Dawn Chong
Tags: You Even Man
Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.
Kristen Stewart
Tags: Just Who Want
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As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature.


Craig Venter
Tags: Power Nature See
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.


Voltaire
Tags: Must Enough Learn
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You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.


Alex Morrison
Tags: You Your Thing
My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'
Lena Dunham
Tags: Cool Never Going
What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
Wendelin Van Draanen
Tags: You Me Think
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I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.


Reese Witherspoon
Tags: Them See Play
It's like Scott Wolf, I never thought he looked like Tom Cruise until somebody said it and now that they've said it, I see it every time I look at him!
Jeremy London
Tags: Time Like Never
Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.
Mariska Hargitay
Tags: You Life Very
One, I had never worked with John Woo before and I wanted to see what that was like, and two, Ben Affleck is a friend, so it would be fun to work with him again.
Joe Morton
Tags: Work Like Had
I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
Felicity Jones
Tags: Great Women You
Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
Andy Goldsworthy
Tags: Work Me More
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The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.


William Hague
Tags: War Out Way
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
David Foster Wallace
Tags: Think Other See
What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be passed from hand to hand and lasts a lot longer than an electronic reader.
Louise Erdrich
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It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.


Michael Ondaatje
Tags: Get Out Story
I loved Roy Acuff with all my heart, and I never dreamed I'd be able to meet him or see him onstage, or especially become good friends with him. For all this to happen, it's hard to explain what a dream this is when you love something as much as I love traditional country music.
George Jones
Tags: Good Music You
When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!
Jessica Valenti
Tags: Out Would How
The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.
Charles Stross