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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

~Edie Falco

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: Another Art Been Before Common Doing Done Dread Element Immaturity Modern Modern Art Symptom Unsettling

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Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in the upper 3000 feet, and as many as 80-90% of the animals you catch can make light. The biomimetic lure that I developed imitates one of these - a common deep sea jellyfish called Atolla.

~Edith Widder

Topics: Animals Anywhere Catch Common Deep Developed Drag Easy Feet Finding Imitates Just Light Lure Make Many Net Ocean Sea Through Upper Water You

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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: American Appealed Both Celebrated Colonists Common Common Sense Creation Critical Despised Eloquence Events French He His Independence Long Pamphlet Present Republic Sense States Thomas Through Time Toward Traveled United United States

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Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: About American Authority Been Before Between Common Distrust England Ever Government Imperial Keeping More Over Powers Replaced Revolution Since Than Them Visible Worried

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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

~Edmund White

Topics: After Common Deal Egotistical Gay Goofy Man Men Monster Something Trying Women

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I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

~Ednita Nazario

Topics: Anything Children Come Common Family Family Values Idea Love Society Specifically Thread Unconditional Unconditional Love Values You Your

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In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: Am Color Common Fall Interested Line Michelangelo More Rembrandt Rise Than I Am

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It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

~Edward Ball

Topics: Black Common Cousins Family Go Out Seek Southern Thing White

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Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

~Edward Burnett Tylor

Topics: Absence Among Cannot Children Common District Healthy Here Look People Proper Say Seem Statistics Strong Though Undertake Very Whether

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