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The experience of having a child does crack you wide open. I felt like I suddenly had to rebuild the skin that I'd grown over the years before having a child. Perhaps that might be quite interesting in terms of acting.

~Anne-Marie Duff

Topics: Acting Before Child Crack Does Experience Felt Grown Had Having Interesting Like Might Open Over Perhaps Quite Rebuild Skin Suddenly Terms Wide Years You

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I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

~Annette Funicello

Topics: Always Anything Anything Else Before Considered Dancer Else Myself

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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its minutest details. For one short instant the personal becomes one with the individual and all-knowing ego. But this instant is enough to show to him the whole chain of causes which have been at work during his life.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Becomes Been Before Causes Chain Death Details Ego Enough Even Every Every Man Him His Individual Instant Life Man Moment Past Past Life Personal Sees Short Show Solemn Sudden Which Whole Work

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The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Before Call Dies Does Hard Indeed Living Mind Owner Put Something Would Writer

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Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it detains suspicious persons for long periods of time and puts them under heavy questioning before they are ever even charged with a crime.

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: Been Before Charged Crime Criticized Department Even Ever Fighting Heavy Justice Long Long Periods Particular Periods Persons Puts Questioning Since Suspicious Tactic Terror Them Time Uses War Widely

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In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: Airplane American Arms Arms Race Atomic Atomic Bomb Before Bomb Crash Decided Defense Department Disaster Full Had Just Likes Matter Never Race Radioactive Seen Soil Swing Time Which World Would

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Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

~Annie Lennox

Topics: Age Am Before Confidence Ease Experiences Fifties Grounded Had Life More My Own Own Skin Suppose Terms Than Younger I Am

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Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

~Annie Smith Peck

Topics: Been Before Climbing Few Follow Going Hard Labor Man Only Pleasure Real Satisfaction Where

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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

~Ansel Adams

Topics: Before Come Domination Impose Instrument Love More Others Own Photograph Photographers Reality Revelation Some Spirit Take Tenderly Them Thought

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I like to buy girls shoes and jewelry. I buy stupidly expensive shoes. I got Louboutins for my mom and my girlfriend before. My mom was like, 'I can't wear these; they're too high.' I was like, 'Mom, you have to try them - they're so cool. They're red snakeskin!' She still wears them every so often, but she can't walk in them.

~Ansel Elgort

Topics: Before Buy Cool Every Expensive Girl Girlfriend Got High Jewelry Like Mom Often Red She Shoes Still Them Too Try Walk Wear Wears You

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