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I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.


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I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.


Antonia Fraser
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I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.


Megan Fox
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I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.
Anthony Trollope
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I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it's just a very real thing in our country and culture.
Leven Rambin
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
Val Kilmer
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
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Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics - not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with the Kennedys, but the real thing. The candidate himself is glamorous. Audiences project onto him the personal qualities and political positions they want in a president.
Virginia Postrel
I think of clothes a lot like costumes. I think of what I wear in real life as being my real life character's costume.
Ginnifer Goodwin
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It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.


Jason Lee
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.


Vikram Seth
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
Georges Rouault
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Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.


Adelbert von Chamisso
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If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.
Gouverneur Morris
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I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.
Peter Mayhew
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A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.
William Shatner
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Samuel Butler
When I'm cutting a tree, if I'm thinking about anything other than that 40-foot oak tree... I'm a dead man. It's a therapy thing for me.
Eric Church
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
Pablo Casals
Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.
Matthew Macfadyen
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