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I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.

~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Ask Based Closely Discovered Fiction Imagination Least Me Most Parts People Questions Real Tell Those Unbelievable Watch World

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I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.

~Chip Conley

Topics: Attached Closely Defined Difference Distracting Eyes Feelings Hours How Identity Internal Know Little Might Myself Number Sense Something Too Were Work Worked

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The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember hearing about someone who'd gone to a magic act, and a person in the audience had become hypnotized by observing too closely what magician was doing on stage, and thought it was spooky to lose your consciousness that way.

~Chris Van Allsburg

Topics: About Act Actions Audience Become Being Closely Consciousness Control Doing Fascinating Gone Had Hearing Idea Little Lose Magic Magician Mesmerized Observing Own Person Remember Someone Spooky Stage Thought Too Way Whole Your I Remember

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If you're passionate about the world, and if you really look closely at everything around you, each thing can be transformed into a shoe, or into a part of a shoe.

~Christian Louboutin

Topics: About Around Closely Each Everything Look Part Passionate Really Shoe Thing Transformed World You

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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

~Christian Nestell Bovee

Topics: Allied Another Closely Cure Egotism Excessive Less Make Morbid More Name Objects Only Our Self-Consciousness Selves Sensibilities Sensibility Tender

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You can always tell a person's real character and personhood by those who closely surround him, especially if they're family.

~Chuck Norris

Topics: Always Character Closely Family Him Person Real Real Character Surround Tell Those Who You

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Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

~Claire Danes

Topics: About Acting Closely Discipline Exercise How Incredible Just Linked People Psychology Studying Very Work

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We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.

~Claudio Hummes

Topics: Bringing Closely Economic Exclusion Free Justice Know Markets New Open Order Prosperity Social Social Justice Tied Which World

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U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy.

~Cliff Stearns

Topics: Affordable Availability Closely Economic Energy Prosperity Reliable Supply Tied

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I don't look at film that closely about my mechanics of where's my elbow at.

~Colin Kaepernick

Topics: About Closely Elbow Film Look Mechanics

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