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I didn't want to write a grown-up account of Gallipoli. I wanted to find out what would happen if I looked at Gallipoli through the eyes of an innocent.
Kerry Greenwood
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A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems.


Mike Simpson
I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
Tom Bissell
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If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.
Stephen Sondheim
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.


Carl Sandburg
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If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.


Sophia Loren
I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.
Melissa Rosenberg
I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
Felicity Jones
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I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.


Jean Paul Gaultier
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I do think I learned to accept myself through the eyes of others when I was young because I wasn't brought up to think that I was beautiful or told I was beautiful.
Marisa Berenson
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare
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Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.


Caroline Corr
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When one teenager dying of cystic fibrosis asked me, 'Why am I different?' I answered, 'Tony, because it makes you beautiful.' He loved my answer because he knew full well how much he had done for the world and that he would be immortal through his love and the fund raising of those who knew him hoping to find a cure for cystic fibrosis.
Bernie Siegel
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I'm a sucker for a woman with beautiful eyes.


Ryan Guzman
A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat.
James Pinckney Miller
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I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
Eddie Van Halen
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The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.


Alexander Payne
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I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.


Corbin Bleu
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Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.
Joshua Jackson
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There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.
Linus Torvalds