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We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

~Christopher Morley

Topics: Almost Almost Anything Anything Call Child Effort Habit Larger Mind Ours Perhaps Simply Small Take Than Without

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Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.

~Christopher Walken

Topics: Because Been Calm Distance Disturbed Early Effort Good Guess Guy Home Keep Know Live Lot Make Must One Or Two Openings Parties People Played Regular Social Stay Stuck Thing Try Two Way Whole You

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You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

~Christopher Walken

Topics: About Bathtub Because Car Come Curb Die Down Effort Fall Feel Happening Hear London Making Off Other People Slip Some Something Stairs Step Things Think Unnecessary Want Way You

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Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

~Chuck Jones

Topics: Anyone Because Cheapest Comment Criticize Effort Negatively Requires Suggestion

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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Could Effort Ever Expect Minute Moment Most Perfection Worth You

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With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Advantages Audience Because Being Book Books Certain Consume Consumed Effort Few Guaranteed Just Just One Level Make Ongoing Person Play Product Project Really Skill Still Strength Time Want You

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The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art you can create at that point in your life - a book that may only reach or move a few people but will seem to those people somehow transformative. That's the ideal; that's always the motivation.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Always Art Best Best Work Book Create Effort Few Few People Ideal Lasting Life May Motivation Move Only People Point Potentially Reach Seem Somehow Those Transformative True Very Will Work You Your

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Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Any Appeal Beauty Effort Enjoyment Immediate Impress Itself Must Our Part Provide Senses Us Without

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It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

~Claude M. Bristol

Topics: Away Breaks Constant Determined Down Effort Obstacles Resistance

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In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

~Claudio Hummes

Topics: Beings Church Context Development Dignity Effort Every Favors Full Fundamental Fundamental Rights Human Human Beings Liberty Personality Promote Rights Seek Supports Today

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