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The process of finding my voice as SpongeBob was to start by watching what Tom Kenny did, trying to do an impression of sorts, and then forgetting all about it and letting the voice become a second-nature thing.

~Ethan Slater

Topics: About Become Did Finding Forgetting Impression Kenny Letting Process Sort Start Then Thing Tom Trying Voice Watching

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Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

~Evelyn Underhill

Topics: Affairs Concerned Fail Forgetting He His Husband Interest Me Myself Often Other Patient Respond Show Things Tired Towards Very

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We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

~Evgeny Morozov

Topics: About Always Ambiguity Been Deeply Enemy Forgetting Get Granted Hypocrisy Impossible Inefficiency Kind Life Like Never Our Partisanship Play Political Rid Roles Social Social Life Them Things Thought Too Took

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Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.

~Fernando Botero

Topics: Art Arts Because Been Ever Everything Fine Fine Arts Forgetting Good Good Luck Had Half Happens Life Luck Me Most My Life Nobody Schools Spend Students Way Which Would

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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Aspects Certain Forgetting Happening Kinds Knowing Living Loss Memory Strangest

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I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

~Gail Porter

Topics: Consists Count Fashion Forgetting House Jeans Leave Long Mum Success Sweaters Wardrobe

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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Answer Correct Downward Exponentially Follows Forget Forgetting Fortunately Getting Graph Human Levels Likelihood Off Our Over Pattern Quickly Quiz Then Time

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The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

~Gary Wolf

Topics: Convince Could Dates Details Facts Forgetting Formulas Historical Important Internet Learn Looked Matter Might Much Only Ourselves Perhaps Problem Really Remembering Things Torment Up Us Words

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My worst habit is probably that I'm extremely messy. I'm a big scatter-brain - I'm always losing my car keys, or worse, forgetting where I parked my car in the car park.

~Georgia Salpa

Topics: Always Big Car Extremely Forgetting Habit Keys Losing Messy Park Where Worse Worst

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