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I feel Noah has been alone for the majority of his life and inherently searching for a family, even though he may not express that outwardly. But his encounter with Rosalee gave him hope in finding someone who thinks like him.

~Aldis Hodge

Topics: Alone Been Encounter Even Express Family Feel Finding Gave He Him His Hope Inherently Life Like Majority May Noah Searching Someone Thinks Though Who I Feel

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When you encounter people in life - like a chance encounter at a bar or wherever you happen to be - you make these incredibly quick, quite intricate decisions about people based on very small amounts of coded information. We're good at that.

~Alex Garland

Topics: About Amount Bar Based Chance Decisions Encounter Good Happen Incredibly Information Intricate Life Like Make People Quick Quite Small Very Wherever You

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Snow is like a manic pixie dream girl: fun and whimsical when you encounter it only through the barrier of a movie screen - but absolute misery to have to put up with in real life.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Absolute Barrier Dream Encounter Fun Girl Life Like Manic Misery Movie Only Put Real Real Life Screen Snow Through Up Whimsical You

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When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time: the shaft opens. The past and present exist in the same moment, and we know, as beings, that we are connected. All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment.

~Ali Smith

Topics: About After Art Before Beings Come Connected Encounter Exist Fixed Know Lived Meet Moment Opens Past People Present Rather Same Something Time Us Who Will Work

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Don't give up at the first hurdle you encounter.

~Alistair Overeem

Topics: Encounter First Give Hurdle Up You

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When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.

~Allan Hamilton

Topics: Encounter Facing Illness Major May Most Opportunities People Severe Significant Spiritual Surgery Transformation Will

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I have always found it jarring to encounter people born and raised in, say, Switzerland, who are denied its citizenship and still considered Algerians or Turks.

~Anand Giridharadas

Topics: Always Born Citizenship Considered Denied Encounter Found People Raised Say Still Switzerland Turks Who

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The best part about living in New York is that you are able to play with different people in different styles in the same week. It's really part of who I am as a musical person. I try to incorporate everything that I encounter.

~Anat Cohen

Topics: Able About Am Best Best Part Different Different People Different Styles Encounter Everything Incorporate Living Musical New New York Part People Person Play Really Same Styles Try Week Who York You I Am

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In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there.

~Andie Macdowell

Topics: Because Claimed Comments Days Death Disturbed Encounter Me Out People Pins Seriously Some Stand Sticking Tweet Used Were Who Wishing Would

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'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

~Andrew Gross

Topics: Bottom California Central Chance Charles Cliff Encounter Events Eyes Forty Forty Years Found Kid Landmark Life Manson My Own Nephew None Open Other Own Past Real Real Life Sad Second Shape Straight Suicide Than Took Troubled Two Who Wide Years Years Ago Young

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