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A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
Raymond Carver
The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.
Nick Vujicic
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
Jacques Derrida
Tags: Just Would Never
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The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.


Mark Zuckerberg
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I'd never want to be trapped. I never like to stay in one place too long. I always flit around, I never settle anywhere. So being married would be being trapped.
Maisie Williams
Tags: Like Always Want
These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
Patrick Macnee
Tags: Time Best Like
The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
Felicity Kendal
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Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.


Robert Wilson Lynd
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The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.
Alex Lifeson
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I can resist everything except temptation.


Oscar Wilde
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The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.


Louis Theroux
Tags: Just Know Too
I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.
Matthew Settle
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I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much.
Ellie Goulding
Tags: You Think Always
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Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.


Christopher Hitchens
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Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.


Lyman Abbott
I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.
Herschel Walker
Tags: Money Car Me
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Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.


Wynton Marsalis
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I'm a little bit of a makeout king. I don't discriminate too much.


Pete Wentz
Tags: Much Little Too
I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.
Maya Angelou
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I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.


DeForest Kelley
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