Wordgrove Post & Review

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Quoted In The Grove:
In Japan we have the phrase, “Shoshin,” which means “beginner’s mind.” Our “original mind” includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.
~Shunryu Suzuki

Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.
~Roy H Williams

I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed mind, ringed as it were with concrete and cement, and that the so-called romantic is like an unfenced garden in and out of which truth can wander at will.
~Joseph Roth

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This alone is to be feared ‒ the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.
~Winifred Holtby

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Next Exercise Prompt: late

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Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
~Alexis Carrel

Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.
~Josemaria Escriva

Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet.
~Leonardo da Vinci

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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
~Victor Hugo

To find a friend one must close one eye ‒ to keep him, two.
~Norman Douglas

If you see a whole thing ‒ it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives… But up close a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
~Ursula K Le Guin

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Maybe I’m just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it.
~Ai Yazawa

I met Peter Brook, the theater director… I admire him tremendously… and what he said was this: “In my work, I try to capture the closeness of the everyday and the distance of myth. Because, without the closeness, you can’t be moved, and without the distance, you can’t be amazed.” Isn’t that extraordinary?
~Paul Auster

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
~Henri Nouwen

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We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We’re meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it’s a long way from the morning to the evening.
~Rod McKuen

We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us ‒ a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don’t close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings.
~Pema Chodron

The development of a kind heart, or feeling of closeness for all human beings, does not involve any of the kind of religiosity we normally associate with it…It is for everyone…
~Dalai Lama

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Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
~Caspar David Friedrich

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
~Grandma Moses

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
~Pablo Picasso

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In life sometimes, in the universe, you have to close some doors to have others open.
~Gene Ween

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
~Alexander Graham Bell

Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
~Lily Tomlin

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Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.
~Chris Gethard

Mark how the above author’s notions of mingled humanity, and his name, dovetail. A view of life ordained by fate, a matter of choice, mere serendipity, or a bad joke?
~Ed Note

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
~Thomas Huxley

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Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I’m in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you’ve had, you can still love yourself.
~Patch Adams

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you’re drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.
~Tom Hardy

We’re always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who’ve closed down. And there are times in one’s life when one has to close down just to regroup.
~Leonard Cohen

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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
~George Eliot

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
~Tom Stoppard

It’s too easy to forget bad things. By keeping the reminders close, it’s the reminder of not just who you are, but how you became what you are.
~Gareth Thomas

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We are at the edge of an abyss and we’re close to being irrevocably lost.
~David R Brower

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
~Kurt Vonnegut

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.
~Joan Didion

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I really hope it engenders a lot of conversation because I believe there are a lot of people who put on faces. We all do it, every time we walk out the door. And there are a lot of people who have to hide who they are. And I think this story speaks to that.
~Glenn Close

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
~Cesare Pavese

What’s so fascinating about people is what they don’t show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much.
~Glenn Close

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A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
~author unknown

In my travels, I have found two peoples, the Tibetans and the Fijians, who don’t seem to have this problem. Their closeness with their environment, their religions, and their relationships with each other and nature make them feel part of everything.
~Frederick Lenz

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
~Mark Twain

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If one stays too long with friends They will soon tire of him; Living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and demand too much When one dwells too long in companionship.
~Milarepa

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It’s like when you take a trip with someone you don’t know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realise all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travellers, if that makes any sense.
~Gabrielle Zevin

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A face is a road map of someone’s life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there’s a great deal that’s communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.
~Chuck Close

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.
~Glenn Close

It’s not about the journey. It’s about the people you meet.
~Del Close

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Posted From The Grove

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
~Ronald Reagan

It’s not as if I’ve ever been to prison or been close to going to prison. The closest I’ve got is knowing people who have been in jail ‒ after all, I was a member of Parliament ‒ and visiting them there during their sentence.
~Michael Portillo

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I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.
~Fidel Castro

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
~John Berger

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
~Desmond Tutu

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Marseille has a big Muslim community. The good thing is it is a melting point: all nationalities in there. Everyone is fine with each other. It is really close to North Africa, to Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, so a lot of them come from there.
~Samir Nasri

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
~Francois Mitterrand

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Let’s close all the Islamist mosques.
~Marine Le Pen

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.
~George Carlin

I’m so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.
~Melissa Etheridge (Nowhere To Go)

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There are no military options for Iran. Attack them, and they will destroy the Gulf States oil industries, rain hundreds of missiles onto Israel, close the Arabian Gulf, and shoot oil prices to $300 per barrel, which could cause our own economic downfall.
~Malcolm Nance

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
~David Trimble

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The closeness between the United States and Mexico is more than just a relationship between two governments.
~Enrique Pena Nieto

We live in a big world, and it is important for us to be aware of culture other than our own. Learn something new, whether you think you’re interested in it or not. That’s the opposite of having a closed mind or a closed door.
~Donald Trump

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When you’re a second- or third-generation migrant, your ties to your heritage can feel a little precarious. You’re a foreigner here, you’re a tourist back in your ancestral land, and home is the magpie nest you construct of the bits of culture you’re able to hold close.
~Ash Sarkar

We can’t close ourselves off. We have to connect with the rest of the world.
~Jim Harbaugh

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I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.
~Dwayne Johnson

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can’t solve.
~Linda Lingle

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.
~Jan Schakowsky

As much as I dislike the suggestion of single solutions to complex problems, jobs are as close as we will get to a single, effective answer to the enormous problem of gangs.
~Greg Boyle

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In the city that the wolf enters, enemies will be close by. An alien force will sack a great country. Allies will cross the mountains and the borders.
~Nostradamus

Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.
~Margo Jefferson

The two great aims of industrialism ‒ replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy ‒ seem close to fulfillment.
~Wendell Berry

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Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
~Sun Tzu

A good undercover agent stays as close to the truth as possible, as close to your own personality and your own values as possible. This is the way you stay in character ‒ you try to be yourself.
~Joseph D Pistone

Keep your friends close, your enemies even closer.
~Sun Tzu

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
~Demosthenes

That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.
~Aung San Suu Kyi

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If you’re not comfortable with public speaking ‒ and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable ‒ practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.
~Hillary Clinton

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.
~Shannon L Alder

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Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.
~Ted Kulongoski

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.
~Theodore White

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We Conservatives believe not in big, interventionist, centralized government. But in small and limited government, government as close to the people as possible.
~Maxime Bernier

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Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
~Alcuin

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.
~Todd Gitlin

The West hasn’t reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
~Samuel P Huntington

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
~Ronald Reagan

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We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.
~Juliette Gordon Low (Girl Scouts)

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to be expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
~Dora Russell

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.
~Kurt Vonnegut

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I’ve seen terrorism close up, but I don’t live in a state of terror at all. I’m comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years Eve. For perspective, the world today is a safer place than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, World War II.
~Douglas Brunt

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts ‒ we have learned only recently how close we were to war ‒ but I knew enough to make me tremble.
~Joseph Rotblat

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Sources say the Obama administration is in the ‘final stages’ of planning the closing of Guantanamo Bay. The way it’s gonna work is, they’re going to put a Radio Shack sign out front and let nature take its course.
~Jimmy Fallon

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I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
~Dan Quayle

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
~James K Polk

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But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper.
~John T Flynn

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.
~Aleksander Kwasniewski (ex-Pres Poland, 1995-2005))

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
~Valentina Tereshkova (Soviet cosmonaut)

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Don’t accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a ‘closed mind’ or being ‘blind to possibilities’. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.
~Charlie Brooker

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.
~Milan Kundera

But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The FBI’s mission is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution. To carry out that mission, we’re entrusted with a lot of authority, so our actions are subject to close oversight ‒ from the courts, from our elected leaders, and from independent entities like the inspector general.
~Christopher A Wray

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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
~Sherlock Holmes

Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn’t even know he’s locked up.
~David Foster

Running toward danger is foolhardy. … But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.
~Brandon Mull

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This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its devaluation according to how dark one is and the impact that has on people who are dedicated to the privileges of certain levels of skin color.
~Toni Morrison

I don’t differentiate between black and Latino actors. We’re in the same struggle to be represented in a way that’s even close to honest. And I can tell you that the amount of Latino characters I can point at and say, ‘That’s what my life experience looks like’ ‒ I can’t think of any off the top of my head besides Jimmy Smits in ‘Mi Familia.’
~Lin-Manuel Miranda

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.
~William Julius Wilson (American sociologist)

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You close the door on me and tell me I can’t, I’m gonna find a way to get in.
~Tyler Perry

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
~Stokely Carmichael

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
~Audre Lorde

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I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.
~Henry R Luce

If it’s far away, it’s news, but if it’s close at home, it’s sociology.
~James Reston

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~Larry Dors: Same Line Different Films — Close Your Eyes (2:53)

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~Invisible Threads: Carl Jung • 8 Hidden Signs Someone Close to You Secretly Hates You (18:50) for the fearful, the paranoid, those easily offended, or…

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~Comic Stanza: Richard Pryor • I’m god. I’m here to pick up my son (1:23) it could have been irreverent, but…

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Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.
~Heston Blumenthal (tv chef)

The good news is, we’re not bankrupt. The bad news is, we’re close.
~Richard J Codey (ex-gov, NJ)

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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
~John C Maxwell

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
~Vince Lombardi

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people ‒ their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.
~Jocko Willink

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If you’re early on in your career and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It’s not even close. And don’t even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks.
~Stanley Druckenmiller

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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
~Richard Bach

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
~J Paul Getty

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
~Francesca Annis

The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.
~Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don’t dream I will make it, I won’t even get close.
~Henry J Kaiser (industrialist)

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It’s particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There’s always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.
~Catharine MacKinnon (feminist law)

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The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.
~James Cash Penney

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
~Lou Holtz

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What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day’s high and most likely ‘breaks’ out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.
~Larry Williams

The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don’t get scared, get ready to buy!
~Larry Williams

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
~Warren Buffett

The beauty of diversification is it’s about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
~Barry Ritholtz

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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
~Dale Carnegie

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It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.
~Ruth Handler (Barbie Dolls)

Actually, we got paid because the name Fortinet is so close to Fortnite, so I’m fine with their name being close to ours.
~Ken Xie

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The only way to have several currencies from divergent nations lumped together is if they are culturally close, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. If they aren’t, it simply can’t continue to work.
~Alan Greenspan

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
~Ben Nicholson (Chief Growth Officer @…)

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If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
~Edward Bellamy

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
~Babe Ruth

Close don’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
~Frank Robinson

Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.
~Al Spalding

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Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Some of the best relationships I ever had were with Boston athletes that I never even met.
~Bill Simmons

I have been relegated [demoted] as a player, and I have suffered the feeling of failure. It is awful, and when you are part of an international outfit that gets so close, and you don’t do it, it is not a good feeling. I don’t want that again. I want to be part of a team that does something no one else has done.
~Chris Coleman (Welsh soccer coach)

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If you had a robot out here calculating all the variables, I think you could potentially get really close to perfection, but from a human perspective, there’s no way to understand all the wind. The wind is the biggest variable, and the grass length is the second biggest variable that we just don’t have control over and never will.
~Bryson DeChambeau

You can’t completely control the sport ‒ Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature’s own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.
~Robert Redford (Legend of Bagger Vance)

I always loved hitting a low fade to a back-right pin with the wind howling from the right. Not many guys could get it close in that situation, because they kept it low by just putting the ball back in their stance. You see, playing the ball back turns you into a one-trick pony ‒ you can only hit hooks.
~Lee Trevino

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
~Ben Hogan

I don’t have a life, I really don’t. I’m as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I’m a golf nun.
~Gabrielle Reece

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Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.
~Phil Jackson

A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that’s my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.
~Doug Collins

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I do close to 30 minutes in cardio at a very high rate. I raise the level of intensity. I do a level 18 on the elliptical at four miles an hour for 20 minutes. That’s 360 calories. I want to see someone else try that. The resistance factor at 18 is brutal. No one goes to 20.
~Ric Flair (wrestling)

I got the stamina. I can close.
~Michael Phelps (bigfoot, swimming legend)

There is nothing in this world that I love more than my family. To be able to share the joy of running with them at the Runner’s World Half Marathon and Running Festival where we can all participate together is as close as you can get to a perfect weekend.
~Summer Sanders

I couldn’t have come close without my teammates’ help because the Knicks didn’t want me to make 100.
~Wilt Chamberlain

I think it’s time for me to get out, because at the moment I’m only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they’re the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I’m thinking about it.
~Rex Hunt

The door can never be closed for good to any player.
~Zinedine Zidane (soccer)

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson [pitcher]. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don’t miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.
~Pete Rose

There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death. If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
~Tom Landry

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When I stepped into the box, I felt the at-bat belonged to me. Everybody else was there for my convenience. The pitcher was there to throw me a ball to hit. The catcher was there to throw it back to him if he didn’t give me what I wanted the first time. And the umpire was lucky that he was close enough to watch.
~Reggie Jackson

Whenever you have a tight situation and there’s a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.
~Red Barber

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.
~Bob Uecker

Umpires got power, man. You ever notice if you go to a ballpark and there’s a close play on first base, they will not run the replay at the ballpark? I’ve seen umpires go underneath and call up and say if you run one more of those replays, we’re gonna forfeit the game. That’s how strong their union is.
~Pete Rose

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I did a film called ‘Floating’ early on that had a scene which was similar to a real-life situation I was in at the time. It involved me having a conversation with my father, who was dying. It was close to home and it made me realise acting wasn’t just making faces for the cameras, it was a real art form.
~Norman Reedus

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That’s basically what we do.
~Glenn Close

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I’ve always felt that an independent film is a film that almost doesn’t get made.
~Glenn Close

It’s gotten out of control. It’s taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won’t get made at all.
~Glenn Close

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I have the belief that truly evil people, it’s a genetic evil. I only have the experience of exploring the landscape of some of the characters I’ve played that people have labeled as evil; I don’t think they’re evil.
~Glenn Close

Because as an actor, I really feel you cannot judge a character. You have to totally commit to that character. And for me to totally commit to the character, I have to find those places where I understand the sequence of behavior.
~Glenn Close

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.
~Glenn Close

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.
~Glenn Close

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The absolute worst thing you can do in a scene is be apathetic.
~Del Close

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I love the chemistry that can be created onstage between the actors and the audience. It’s molecular even, the energies that can go back and forth. I started in theater and when I first went into movies I felt that my energy was going to blow out the camera.
~Glenn Close

Good live theater disturbs molecules. You create an energy source around yourself and it alternates between you and the audience. Anybody who sees live theater should come out a little rearranged.
~Glenn Close

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So I’m always inspired by my fellow actors. And that’s kind of a constant for me. I have huge respect for our profession and our craft. And I seek in my work to create connections, first for me with the character and then the character with the other actors, and then ultimately, all of us together connecting with the audience in a way that sometimes is subliminal, even.
~Glenn Close

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The word diva has a negative connotation… I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they’re trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.
~Glenn Close

I don’t have the body or the face for romantic comedies, so I’ve never been offered those. The challenge is that a lot of people see you only as your last character, so you’re constantly competing with whatever your last movie was.
~Glenn Close

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.
~Glenn Close

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Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.
~Jean Stapleton

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I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.
~Glenn Close

I just ‒ I love my job. I love doing it. It’s a passionate endeavor. And sometimes you can get close to something that you believe is the truth. The truth of something. Not all the time, but sometimes.
~Donald Sutherland

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And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
~Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond)

Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I’ve never really had to research a role. I’m literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress.
~Emma Watson

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I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.
~Michael Haneke

Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.
~Denis Villeneuve

My films are intended as polemical statements against the American ‘barrel down’ cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.
~Michael Haneke

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.
~Glenn Close

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
~Frank Herbert

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Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming ‘Hairspray.’ It’s so weird because I grew up watching her.
~Zac Efron

Well, Rhoda was, I think, the last actress that we saw. There had been so many wonderful actresses who were close, really close. But there was no magical epiphany.
~Mary Tyler Moore

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
~Richard Steele

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There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though.
~Terence Fisher

I think when you’re dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it’s important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
~Jack Falahee

It’s nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.
~Jeff Goldblum

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I’m always open. I try not to have a closed mind. In fact the only reason why I’m able to continue to make films since 1986 is I have been adaptable. If I weren’t flexible I sure wouldn’t be making films this many years as I’ve been doing it. I’ve been making a film a year almost since 1986 and that’s hard. That ain’t easy.
~Spike Lee

Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to be good — suggestive of more than just what it is — it has to come perilously near being bad, just a view of stuff.
~Robert Adams

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When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.
~Glenn Close

I think Cruella is evil, because she’s the devil. But all the other characters, I was able to find a common humanity with them somewhere, knowing where they’re most fragile, where they’re most vulnerable, knowing some of the things that happened to them that might have formed this kind of behavior.
~Glenn Close

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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you. Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to work. Every great idea I’ve ever had grew out of work itself. Sign onto a process and see where it takes you. You don’t have to invent the wheel everyday. Today you will do what you did yesterday, tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually, you will get somewhere… Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.
~Chuck Close

The danger of having too close deadlines. It could lead you to just accept an avenue that’s not quite good enough.
~Judith Weir

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you’re in trouble.
~Chuck Close

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In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.
~Colin Firth

‘M Train‘ [memoir] is as close to knowing what I’m like as anything. I don’t know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.
~Patti Smith

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I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.
~Joe Rogan

I don’t think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.
~Brian May

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There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the director is through intimacy. It doesn’t necessarily have to do with any physical act; it has more to do with achieving a closeness that they find very valuable.
~Peter Stone

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
~Glenn Close

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.
~Leslie Caron

I love Ron Howard, he’s a wonderful director, incredibly prepared. But I have to criticize my performance in that movie. It all took place in one day. My character was having a bad day, so she’s having a bad day throughout the whole movie. But this was a comedy, and I think I was too serious, too dense. Yes, I think that describes my failure there.
~Glenn Close

It’s not good to be in a situation where people don’t want to direct you or don’t want to question something.
~Glenn Close

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My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
~Faith Prince

There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.
~Mavis Staples

We always play clubs. It’s not something that I feel above. Those are my favorite shows because they’re intimate, they’re tight, their sweaty, they’re hot. You’re close to the people. Those are my favorites.
~Joan Jett

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When the theater is gothic it matches the sensibility of the show. It’s also very intimate. The audience is very close to the performers. The show is scary and the scary stuff always works best with an intimacy with the audience. And the show is erotic, and I think erotic always works best when its close to the audience, as well.
~Frank Wildhorn

The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the Roman, it is ourselves; and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind; all these styles seem modern when we come close to them; but the gothic gets away.
~Henry Adams

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No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn’t it wonderful? Because while you’re doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard.
~Mary Tyler Moore

When I’m up there, and I know the show’s coming to a close, in my head I’m saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That’s what I don’t like so much.
~Adam Sandler

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When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn’t want to see the magic.
~Nia Vardalos

My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I just happen to think that with Hamilton’s story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened.
~Lin-Manuel Miranda

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As far as the difference for me between television and movies, I really thrill to the pace of television. As exhausting as it can be ‒ there was actually one day when we never went to bed.
~Glenn Close

And when you’re with a great crew like we had, it becomes a thrilling, again, collaboration, which is to me one of the great aspects of the process that you go through. I find myself at this point in my career, getting potentially, incredibly bored if I stand around a lot, so that’s why I really like the pace of television.
~Glenn Close

I also have always felt that television has a huge potential for the kinds of audiences that some films would never dream or ever be able to have. So that potential is very exciting to me.
~Glenn Close

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There used to be a huge snobbism between the film industry and the television industry. I produced and acted in my first ‒ well way back ‒ but the first thing that I produced and acted in was Sarah, Plain and Tall. And the only place to go at the time for really quality television was Hallmark Hall of Fame. And think how much television has changed since then.
~Glenn Close

I come from a TV background, so for me this is more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we’d go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue.
~Jennifer Sky

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I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for ‘SNL‘ when I was 21 years old and that was the joke. You intern there and you think man, I’m going to be with the writers and the great comedians. Then you’re getting everybody sandwiches and then the doors close and then all the great creatives are doing the work.
~Jake Johnson

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~Omeleto: How To Disappear (20:08) fantasy, interesting portrayal of love

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~locustgarden: Close Your Eyes (3:44) too-short/not-short-enough horror piece

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~neonscreeen2: Close Your Eyes • Ghostly (4:58) Death and child getting to know each other

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When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within
~Pipilotti Rist

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.
~Jake Gyllenhaal

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The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
~Gustave Flaubert

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I’m going to put it into my work.
~Chuck Close

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If the whole is to be Art, the parts must not try to be.
~Del Close

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Inspiration is for amateurs ‒ the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will ‒ through work ‒ bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great “art idea.”
~Chuck Close

Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are formed by the circumstances acting upon them since birth. These circumstances include the ambiance created by the other, lesser artists of their own time, who have all done their part in creating the pressure that forces up an exceptional talent. Unjustly, but unavoidably, the very closeness of a great artist to his colleagues and contemporaries leads to their eclipse.
~Germaine Greer

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.
~Chuck Close

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I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
~Chuck Close

There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.
~Chuck Close

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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
~Hesiod

Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that’s part of what we do in ‘Close Up‘, finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.
~William Shatner

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A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.
~Mario Botta

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

The art world is molting ‒some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.
~Jerry Saltz

I love making art… It’s largely how I see myself. I’m an artist; therefore I have to make art.
~Chuck Close

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Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.
~Sarah Vowell

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell’s notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we’re close to that.
~Robert Redford

‘2001: A Space Odyssey‘ is a movie that really impressed me as a teenager. And also ‘Blade Runner.’ And ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind‘ is also one of my favorites. I’m always looking for sci-fi material, and it’s difficult to find original and strong material that’s not just about weaponry.
~Denis Villeneuve

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I never got into this business thinking I’d be like a movie star.
~Glenn Close

I don’t like public venues. I never know what to wear.
~Glenn Close

I don’t think the tabloids find me very interesting.
~Glenn Close

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I welcome every chance I get to interact with fans. I’ve made some very close friendships amongst fans, and I look forward to seeing them.
~Jim Beaver (Planet Comicon)

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I’ve always had a very close relationship with them.
~Anne Rice

The thrill of autograph collecting is getting close to a world you’re not part of.
~Matthew Bourne

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People think they have a perfect idea of who you are from a four-second Snapchat video… and fake blogs, stories, magazine covers. In reality, that’s not the case. Nobody knows who I am except family and my close friends.
~Kylie Jenner

Don’t be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.
~Celine Dion

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I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.
~Glenn Close

At yoga you get some sense of spiritual space so that people don’t intrude. You can go there and close your eyes and no one will talk to you. People are too worried about not fainting to bother with some bloke who was on the telly.
~Bill Bailey

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Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament.
~Sally Quinn

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn’t guarantee anything.
~Chuck Close

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil you learn to respect them.
~Rene Redzepi

Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it’s jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner ‒ but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.
~Robert Irvine

I love to go to the bar close by for a good espresso and have a chat with the bartender.
~Ludovico Einaudi

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§ MUSIC:

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I’m not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.
~Tori Amos

We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people.
~Kiri Te Kanawa (NZ opera)

I worry more about the marketing that’s taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire decades were named for music. In the 1940s ‒ after World War II ‒ changes in taxation, ballrooms closing, people moving to the suburbs, and the onset of target marketing and the confusion of commerce with art caused some things to happen as a result that have taken us away from jazz and what jazz offers us.
~Wynton Marsalis

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I know when I feel good when I play. There’s a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it’s still playing live. For me, it’s what expands my soul.
~Ringo Starr

I listen to everything that sounds good with a story. I even listen to Adele. I listen to all kinds of music. Everything with a story that I can listen to and close my eyes and visualize it. I just love music.
~Rod Wave

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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she’s pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you’re not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
~Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne)

Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I’ve ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.
~Geezer Butler

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Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that’s what country music is. It’s not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.
~Kenny Chesney

We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people’s lives and makes things a little easier. That’s what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don’t want to close the door on hope.
~Merle Haggard

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Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
~Kurt Cobain

I don’t think there’s any danger of me playing Indian music. However, I did a song of George Harrison’s ‘Beware of Darkness‘ that was kind of like that. That was an illusion. I was playing that on a thumbtack piano, and Jim Gordon was playing tablas. He’s an amazing player. That was as close to India as I ever got.
~Leon Russell

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If you date a musician, you’re never, ever really gonna be first either. You’re gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
~Gary Allan

What people don’t realize is that the so called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close knit gourmet supper clubs. We would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc.
~Kurt Cobain

I’ve never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that ‒ of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
~Taylor Swift

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I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
~Syd Barrett

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
~Lionel Hampton

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When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that’s when you know you’re way too close to something that you don’t want to be near.
~Neil Young

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What’s important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion ‒ something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I’m not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I’m just Lester Holt who likes music.
~Lester Holt

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As a musician, I have always strived for my albums and live performance to render a sound as close as possible to perfection.
~Jean-Michel Jarre

Good music is very close to primitive language.
~Denis Diderot

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Close your eyes and I’ll close mine / Good night sleep tight / Now the sun turns out his light / Good night sleep tight / Dream sweet dreams for me / Dream sweet dreams for you.
~John Lennon, Paul McCartney (Good Night, vocals: Ringo Starr) )

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
~Roy Orbison (In Dreams)

And it’s a great day to be alive. I know the sun’s still shining. When I close my eyes.
~Travis Tritt (It’s A Great Day to Be Alive)

Cry Baby is very close to my heart. I feel like I am her in a lot of ways. I want to continue making music from her perspective.
~Melanie Martinez

When I did the video for ‘Holding Out For A Hero,’ we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon, and that was quite frightening. I was close to the edge, and there was a helicopter hovering about, creating a lot of wind, and I was nervous I was going to fall off.
~Bonnie Tyler

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Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.
~Chuck Close

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
~Chuck Close

Paintings can make you cry and it’s just colored dirt.
~Chuck Close

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I build a painting by putting little marks together‒some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.
~Chuck Close

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won’t be able to give much information about who it is.
~Chuck Close

I only use three primaries, so the nice thing is I can’t have favorite colors.
~Chuck Close

At the same time that I’m finding the color world I want, I’m also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.
~Chuck Close

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.
~Chuck Close

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Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that’s embedded in the work.
~Chuck Close

The reason I don’t like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
~Chuck Close

It doesn’t upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
~Chuck Close

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I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.
~Norman McLaren

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
~Chuck Close

If it looks like art, chances are it’s somebody else’s art.
~Chuck Close

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Painting is a lie. It’s the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
~Chuck Close

When you come up in the art world, whatever’s in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting.
~Chuck Close

I can’t always reach the image in my mind… almost never, in fact… so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.
~Chuck Close

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You know, the way art history is taught, often there’s nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
~Chuck Close

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If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.
~Robert Capa (photojournalist)

The camera is objective. When it records a face it can’t make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.
~Chuck Close

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
~Chuck Close

I’ve said its a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians… all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion‒ Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion? Probably they see a little of both.
~Chuck Close

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The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter ‒ 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black‒and whites.
~Chuck Close

Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I’d move the model and change the lighting or whatever… slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.
~Chuck Close

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don’t get a photograph that I want to work from.
~Chuck Close

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.
~Chuck Close

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While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.
~Chuck Close

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it’s different from all other media, is that it’s the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.
~Chuck Close

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A photograph doesn’t gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It’s frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
~Chuck Close

It’s like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you’ve gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I’d never seen before.
~Chuck Close

It always amazes me that just when I think there’s nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been exhausted, someone comes along and puts the medium to new use, and makes it his or her own, yanks it out of this kind of amateur status, and makes it as profound and as moving and as formally interesting as any other medium.
~Chuck Close

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What difference does it make whether you’re looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
~Chuck Close

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.
~Chuck Close

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~Lisa Loeb: Close Your Eyes (2:54) in the way of a lullaby

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~Close Your Eyes: Frame And Glass (3:56) rock ‘n roll

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~Gracie Abrams: Close To You (3:42) friends in love

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~Daryl Hall & John Oates: So Close (4:48) a classic

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~Hetty Kate Trio: Close Your Eyes (3:44) local talent giving it a go

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~Next: Too Close (4:39) the race to arrive at too-close

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~Nick Jonas: Close, ft Tove Lo (3:57) love, and the fear of it

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~Alex Clare: Too Close (4:20) when it comes time to leave

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~Example: Close Enemies (3:54) friends close, enemies closer ‒ not just in politics

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~Chainsmokers: Closer (4:21) love refusing to mature, stuck at teeny-bop

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~XRP Live: The Carpenters • Close To You (3:25) classic

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~RudyWade, LeGrand, Ethan Gander: Too Close (1:58) talents having fun, taking turns with a song

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~Ellie Goulding, Diplo Swae Lee: Close To Me (3:02) feral lyrics, lyrical setting

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How can you fully open your heart to someone new, when in fact what you really need is a closure from your past.
~Mhargs Abuda

I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.
~Jennifer Aniston

Closure isn’t closure until someone’s ready to close the door.
~Jonathan Maberry

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Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes,
But only death the jealous eyes can close.
~William Wycherley

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
~Leo Buscaglia

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We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I’s into one worldview.
~Harriet Lerner

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it’s essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.
~Martha Beck

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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.
~Pablo Neruda

Romantic love can be, and often is, irrational. When ‘in love’ we often close our eyes to the truth or carefully edit it before taking it in. We overlook obvious faults of personality.
~Berit Brogaard

Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can’t see anything wrong with each other.
~Rene Yasenek

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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
~Gloria Steinem

Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.
~Cathy Kelly

Ivan tells Anna: “I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman … as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing … [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can’t share with anyone else.
~Vasily Grossman

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Neither of us seemed able to be close to anyone. Not even each other. Closeness meant the one you loved the most would cause you the most damage. How did you unlearn that? It was woven deep between every fiber and vessel. You couldn’t cut it out.
~Lisa Kleypas

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Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.
~Christopher Paolini

To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.
~Simone de Beauvoir

Missing someone gets easier every day because even though you get one day further from the last time you saw them, you are one day closer to the next time you will see them.
~Mark Ebert

Being close is the first and last desire of lovers, but being far and loving each other without an inch’s difference is the characteristic of real love.
~Señora Roy

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.
~Jodi Picoult

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Hugging closes the door to hate. Kissing opens the door to love.
~Tony Davis

If it’s the first kiss, it’s important for the eyes to be closed so you know it’s real. It’s almost like a Disney movie!
~Joe Jonas

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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you’ll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
~Chuck Palahniuk

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.
~Isabel Allende

The heart that has truly loved never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close.
~Thomas Moore

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I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they’re attracted to another guy.
~Jake Gyllenhaal

With women, I’ve got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can’t get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.
~Marlon Brando

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.
~Elayne Boosler

Don’t get too close, it hurts.
~Graham Kennedy

Sometimes it is good to fly close to the flame, see and experience the heat, but then fly away again, to survive, more wise in the art of heat.
~Robert Black

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.
~Dorothy Day

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We’re not getting married right now. We’re very, very focused on our respective careers. Marriage is a long way away. Yes, I’m very close to Vikram Bhatt.
~Amisha Patel (actress)

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
~Emma Goldman

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
~J Robert Oppenheimer (pyschiatrist, @ge 29)

Robin [Williams, @ge 63] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights ‒ though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty ‒ connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile…how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.
~Glenn Close

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To hearts which near each other move
From evening close to morning light,
The night is good; because, my love,
They never say good-night.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The average American has half as many close friends as they did in 1950. Three quarters of Americans don’t know their next-door neighbor. They may know their name, but they have no real relationship with them. That’s an utterly new place for human beings to find themselves in I mean, we’re a socially evolved primate.
~Bill McKibben

I haven’t any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don’t have that time.
~Khushwant Singh

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It sucks being judged by the world instead of your close friends or family. I try to just realise that the only people who matter are my family and friends.
~Kylie Jenner

The one thing I’ve always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as a person. Don’t worry about being judged by others who don’t know you, because your family and close friends know what you’re all about, good and bad.
~Rick Pitino

My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
~Jeanette Winterson

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Stop giving energy to the things you don’t want.
~Wayne Dyer

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The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded.
~Virat Kohli

Anchors are those people in your life who remind you of who you are ‒ your values, aspirations, and worth ‒ even when you forget. Keep them close and always let them know how much they mean to you.
~Vivek Murthy

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What is it about the human touch, holding a loved one close, and feeling their warmth, their heartbeat? I mean this is the army and frequently our loved ones are far away but their warmth doesn’t have to be.
~Katherine Fugate

Some people can be so close to you even if physically far, they walk with you and stay near in every moment of your life.
~Señora Roy

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Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means ‘serving officers daughters association.’ I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family.
~Anushka Sharma

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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
~Vietnamese Proverb

Sibling relationships…outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust.
~Erica E Goode

No matter how many years passed or how much responsibility each assumed, they still managed to bicker like bitchy teenagers on a regular basis. In some way, though, each found it comforting; it reminded them how close they really were: Acquaintances were always on their best behavior, but sisters loved each other enough to say anything.
~Lauren Weisberger

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
~Charles Dickens

Siblings are branches of a tree
some stay close
some go in different directions
they fruit, grow bigger
till they die and fall.
~The Omani Shed

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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it’s a blessing. It’s a big responsibility, but at the same time it’s an honor.
~Faith Evans

I’m a proud strict mom and, you know, I’m really proud of the two daughters I’ve raised. And I’m especially proud of my relationship with them. We’re very close. I think we’re good friends.
~Amy Chua (Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother)

You can’t prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.
~Mallory Ortberg

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My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
~Taylor Swift

My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old.
~Michelle Trachtenberg

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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
~Pope John Paul II

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All the riches in the world do not come close to the happiness of having children and being a mother.
~Jocelyn Wildenstein

I ended up going to NYU for film school ‒ close to Pennsylvania ‒ but we talked about what if I went to UCLA or USC, and my mom’s whole world was caving in.
~Adam F Goldberg

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I had a real bad attitude after my dad passed of liver cancer. I was 9, and we were really close.
~John Wall

My dad and I had been close ‒ he called me Tuyet Bang, Vietnamese for ‘avalanche,’ because of my nonstop energy. I took a lot from him, like being a risk taker, and I know how much he loved my mother.
~Michelle Phan

I wasn’t close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time ‒ good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together.
~Judy Garland

I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn’t change it for anything.
~Barry Gibb

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I am not a father, and the only children that I get close to are my nieces.
~Greg Davies

Abortion does not just hurt women. Abortion hurts a family, and it has a domino effect of hurting those related and close to those families through the grief and reality of losing a child to abortion.
~Abby Johnson

My second husband, Eric Villency, is the father of my beautiful boy Ronan Anthony. Even though we’re divorced, I’m still very close with his family.
~Kimberly Guilfoyle

My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro’ alone.
~Picabo Street

We are a big family; we are all very close, and we always want to talk about what is going on with each other.
~Javier Hernandez

If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what ‘good’ parenting means.
~Fred Rogers

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My parents are divorced, but they have and always are there for me. They’ve never missed a ball game or anything else I’ve done, and we’ve always been so close.
~Eric Winter

Nah, I’ve always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support in my football and in everything. They’ve been very close to me and we have a great relationship.
~Lionel Messi

My small circle is really just my family. They’re really close and dear to my heart and it’s always great to have them watching my games, critiquing my games and making sure I’m alright at all times.
~Bradley Beal

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I am the youngest of four siblings, and we’re all so close. I don’t know where I would be without my brothers and sister. I secretly believe that my parents love me the most!
~Marissa Jaret Winokur (Hairspray)

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Pedigree collapse is caused by cousins marrying cousins– intentional mating between close cousins and random mating between distant ones who don’t even know they’re related.
~Alex Shoumatoff

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.
~Robert Benton

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Johnny [Carson] once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
~Ed McMahon

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
~Dean Smith

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I can’t betray anyone. I don’t know what it’s like to really betray someone. I’m very loyal to my circle, my family, and those I hold close to me.
~Anuel AA

You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what’s the point in life?
~Shah Rukh Khan

My inner strength comes from my friends. I have a very close group of friends and family, and we all help each other through our dark times.
~Kathy Bates

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What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren’t. There are some I’m fairly close with… we talk.
~Jack Kevorkian

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.
~John C Maxwell

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
~Emil Ludwig

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I never had a huge circle of friends, so I really just tried to cherish and not take for granted the close friends I did have, who were really supportive and understanding.
~Lili Reinhart

I’ve been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only have three close friends. I guess that’s all anyone can expect.
~Hedy Lamarr

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Trust is a fragile thing once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom but once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we’re closest to can betray us.
~Mary Alice Young

Backstabbing, especially from close friends and family, is extremely devastating.
~Mikki C Zimmerman

The hatred of relatives is the most violent. The hatred of those closest to us is the most bitter.
~Jon R Stone

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us when we cross into the shade.
~Christian Nevell Bovee

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
~Andy Warhol

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Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up.
~Anne Lamott

A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.
~Paul Eluard

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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
~Stendhal

It is very difficult for girls. They’re told to look one way, but to act another way.
~Glenn Close

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When you’re playing a man, you can look tired and horrible and you still look okay. As a woman, if you’re tired, it’s terrible. It was such a luxury not having to worry about that.
~Glenn Close

I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.
~Glenn Close

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She had said she didn’t feel fear, but it was a lie; this was her fear: being left alone. Because of one thing she was certain, and it was that she could never love, not like that. Trust a stranger with her flesh? The closeness, the quiet. She couldn’t imagine it. Breathing someone else’s breath as they breathed yours, touching someone, opening for them? The vulnerability of it made her flush. It would mean submission, letting down her guard, and she wouldn’t. Ever. Just the thought made her feel small and weak as a child.
~Laini Taylor

Because gender can be uncomfortable, there are easy ways to close this conversation. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes ‒ that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.
~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

What you want is to have women at the same pace as men doing tech immersion. It’s not that every woman has to do it, but to close the gap, you need to have them do it at the same pace as men.
~Julie Sweet

It’s in everyone’s best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.
~Sarah Brightman

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Women don’t take enough risks. Men are just ‘foot on the gas pedal.’ We’re not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.
~Sheryl Sandberg

When you’re on the set, and sometimes, because it’s been so complex and the writers have been really writing, sometimes up until the last minute… And you kind of sit back; you separate yourself from your brain, and you say, let me see if you can do this. And that’s the kind of challenge I like.
~Glenn Close

I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you’re going to take. I’m always for the one that’s challenging.
~Gisele Bundchen

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… Adventure is a state of mind ‒ and spirit.
~Jacqueline Cochran

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The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.
~Madam C J Walker

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It’s not Islam.
~Hussein of Jordan

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.
~Clara Barton (American Red Cross)

Studies demonstrate that as gaps are being closed between men and women ‒ in access to education, in health, even in economic participation ‒ the most difficult gap to close is in political participation. Somehow that sharing of raw power, political power, remains very illusive.
~Melanne Verveer

With the hugely talented women I’ve worked with or observed, it’s not a question about temperament or ego; it’s a question about getting it right. If they’ve got a reputation for being difficult it’s usually because they just don’t suffer fools.
~Glenn Close

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
~Lyndon B Johnson

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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
~Dick Cavett

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The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
~Yogi Berra

On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close.
~Steven Cojocaru

Been thinking about having a baby. But if I want to do it, I’d have to do it soon ’cause it’s getting near closing time. The clock is ticking. My gynecologist said, if I wanted to have a baby, I would have to do it ‒ the latest by the ended of this show.
~Carol Leifer

I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box ‒ just kidding.
~Brian Littrell

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.
~Peter Jurasik

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
~George Burns

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters ‒ I’m from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!
~Shirley Manson

I’ve been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years ‒ and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.
~Henry Fonda

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Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a great deal, and we were great friends. And I was with him shortly before he died, talking about prospects of the world and prospects for peace. And I’m very sad that he’s gone.
~Jeremy Corbyn

Saying goodbye to close ones is always the hardest.
~Edin Dzeko

When a close friend unexpectedly leaves us, a piece of our heart is forever broken.
~Chris Lumpkin

It’s never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.
~Francois Hougaard

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Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of a busy life—serene, placid, and mild,‒with the impress of the great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.
~Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?
~Glück

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
~John Ruskin

The longest way must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
~Anthony Doerr

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Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn’t been.
~Claire Forlani

Having come so close to death, I now value just how precious life truly is and want to ride what God gave me until the wheels fall off.
~Shaun King

Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.
~Roger Scruton

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Your friend dies, and people always say, ‘Oh, he lives through me,’ or whatever. But it’s just sad that they’re not living. If a person dies that’s close to them, then they say, ‘I lost this person.’ It always tripped me out because I would always be like, ‘Yeah, but that person lost their life.’
~Lil Tracy

In Mexico, you’re close to death all the time.
~Guillermo del Toro

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I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them ‒ you don’t even have to talk. You don’t have to do anything but really be there with them.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

No one’s death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
~Hermann Broch

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You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be around in awhile. Closure is impossible; that’s the heart of the grief you will carry with you for the rest of your life.
~Jesse Andrews

For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.
~Earl A Grollman

Closure, that impossible thing that no one had ever experienced in life, because there always seemed to be a little aperture, a slit of light.
~Meg Wolitzer

Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.
~David Deida

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Closure is an American lie used to justify revenge. Healing is getting used to the pain, learning to be damaged.
~Tim Morrison

Forgiving people isn’t always about giving them another chance. It’s for closure so you can move on.
~Sonya Parker

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There’s never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.
~Paul Pearsall

What was closure if not a clock? Not an end as everyone imagined, but a beginning.
~Celeste Chaney

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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
~Anne Sexton

When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape ‒ I remember it all.
~Issey Miyake (perfumer, of Hiroshima)

I do not have PTSD, but if I watch part of a movie like ‘The Hurt Locker,’ or when I spend time around Blackhawk helicopters, I will close my eyes that night and live an entire day in Iraq, flying my missions. I remember the smell and the feel and the heat and everything about it. Then I wake up in Illinois, and I’m exhausted.
~Tammy Duckworth (Senator)

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
~Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
~Stephen Vizinczey

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My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.
~Wyclef Jean

I still close my eyes and go home ‒ I can always draw from that.
~Dolly Parton

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I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
~Anne Lamott

Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
~Marilyn vos Savant

You want that pizza to taste better? Close your eyes.
~author unknown

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
~Mahalia Jackson

Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?
~John Hughes

80% of sensory perception is taken up with visual input. Closing your eyes frees up a lot of RAM.
~Ed Note

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One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.
~Carla Hall

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I’d tell myself to listen to my heart. Listen to that little voice that says, ‘Mmm, I don’t think so.’ Because when you override that, you basically override who you are.
~Glenn Close

I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work.
~Glenn Close

It’s always a pleasure to talk about someone else’s work.
~Chuck Close

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What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one’s own ignorance.
~Jinkx Monsoon

I can’t understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong.
~Daphne Guinness

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I’m plagued with indecision in my life. I can’t figure out what to order in a restaurant.
~Chuck Close

I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.
~Glenn Close

I remember to breathe throughout the day. I remind myself that I can choose peace, no matter what is going on around me. Whenever I desire, I can retreat to that quiet place within simply by closing my eyes.
~Doreen Virtue

I don’t seem to require a lot of sleep. I just ‒ if I get four, five good hours, I’m fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There’s a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.
~Betty White

Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It’s calming.
~Chuck Close

I pick up other people’s trash. I’m sort of obsessed.
~Eric Close

I’m an actor, that’s my contribution.
~Glenn Close

Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.
~Agnes Repplier

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Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they’re very narrow.
~Chuck Close

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A good undercover agent stays as close to the truth as possible, as close to your own personality and your own values as possible. This is the way you stay in character ‒ you try to be yourself.
~Joseph D Pistone

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Try this experiment, closing your eyes and navigating with your ears. It’s eerie because walls, you can actually hear your footstep maybe bounce off of or you can feel the vibration of your voice and help that… use that to navigate.
~DJ Spooky

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The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort ‒ the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing ‒ the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
~Andy Rooney

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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
~Khalil Gibran

Your brain sends out vibrations all the time, and your thoughts affect your life and other people’s. They pick up these thoughts and get changed by them. That’s why, say, a pacifist gets caught up in a riot situation. It’s a field of vibrations ‒ you can ‘feel’ someone else’s thoughts when close to them.
~Bruce Lipton

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One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
~Winston Churchill

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A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
~Percy Ross

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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
~EM Forster

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To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.
~Chuck Palahniuk

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Barbarian –A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.
~Piers Anthony

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See, I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to participate in ‘problem creation’… You know, ask yourself an interesting enough question and your attempt to find a tailor-made solution to that question will push you to a place where, pretty soon, you’ll find yourself all by your lonesome ‒ which I think is a more interesting place to be.
~Chuck Close

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One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it.
~Ken Gillespie

A dog can’t get struck by lightning. You know why? Because he’s, he’s too close to the ground. See, lightning strikes tall things. Now, now if they was giraffes out there in that field, well then we’d be in trouble.
~Sheldon Leonard

The giraffe and its close relative the okapi are now the only living representatives of the Giraffidae family.
~Edgar Williams

Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.
~Leonardo da Vinci

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.
~Peter Singer

I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.
~Mackenzie Davis

What the meat industry figured out is that you don’t need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable… Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That’s the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying…We live in a world in which it’s conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.
~Jonathan Safran Foer

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No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.
~Lucy Larcom

One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
~Thor Heyerdahl

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
~John Muir

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
~James Dean

Because we can’t escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.
~Diane Ackerman

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The violet flower gives the impression of shyness, growing as it does close to the protective ground and often beneath other plants, shrubs, and trees.
~Steven D Price

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I can’t do with mountains at close quarters ‒ they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
~D H Lawrence

The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination.
~Norman Foster

Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
~David Attenborough

I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves‒we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together, we are each other’s destiny.
~Mary Oliver

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Any time you’re near a kangaroo, it’s a close call.
~Jerry O’Connell

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.
~Henry Hudson

To truly rid the oceans of plastic, what we need to do is two things: One, we need to clean up the legacy pollution, the stuff that has been accumulating for decades and doesn’t go away by itself. But, two, we need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the oceans in the first place.
~Boyan Slat

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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
~Elizabeth Bowen

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
~Anne Lamott

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
~Wangari Maathai

Because we can’t escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.
~Diane Ackerman

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Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they’re very narrow.
~Chuck Close

A good undercover agent stays as close to the truth as possible, as close to your own personality and your own values as possible. This is the way you stay in character ‒ you try to be yourself.
~Joseph D Pistone

Try this experiment, closing your eyes and navigating with your ears. It’s eerie because walls, you can actually hear your footstep maybe bounce off of or you can feel the vibration of your voice and help that… use that to navigate.
~DJ Spooky

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort ‒ the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing ‒ the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
~Andy Rooney

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.
~Glenn Close

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
~Khalil Gibran

Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.
~Glenn Close

Your brain sends out vibrations all the time, and your thoughts affect your life and other people’s. They pick up these thoughts and get changed by them. That’s why, say, a pacifist gets caught up in a riot situation. It’s a field of vibrations ‒ you can ‘feel’ someone else’s thoughts when close to them.
~Bruce Lipton

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
~Winston Churchill

I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.
~Rex Stout

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
~Percy Ross

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
~EM Forster

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.
~Chuck Palahniuk

Barbarian –A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.
~Piers Anthony

See, I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to participate in ‘problem creation’… You know, ask yourself an interesting enough question and your attempt to find a tailor-made solution to that question will push you to a place where, pretty soon, you’ll find yourself all by your lonesome ‒ which I think is a more interesting place to be.
~Chuck Close

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@Writers Platform:
Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I’m proud of that.
~Glenn Close (*vengeful woman spurned by love)

And those moments that I find mind busting. Meaning like there’s a word that I find in a weird place. I love the process of going to the writer and working that out, because that’s just basic communication.
~Glenn Close

A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
~John Irving

So you have the challenge of just learning the lines, period, and not only learning them, but learning them to the extent that you assimilate them, so that you’re not worried about what the next word is coming out of your mouth when it comes to doing a scene. And you’re also in the trenches with the writers, just in the wonderful kind of back and forth of how is it best to say something, even if it involves four or five words. I love that kind of thing.
~Glenn Close

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That’s the bottom line.
~Glenn Close

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I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don’t really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.
~Asghar Farhadi

When I’m stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.
~David Bowie

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I wouldn’t write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it’s a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.
~Zadie Smith

There’s probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, ‘I think that might have been about me,’ or, ‘I know it’s about me.’ I do play that pretty close to the vest. I don’t think I’m ever gonna write a song and drop somebody’s name in it.
~Chris Young

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.
~Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle)

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Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.
~Babette Deutsch

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
~Carl Sandburg

Literature is a kind of legitimate voyeurism through the keyhole of language where you really come to know other people’s lives–their anguish, their loves, their passions. Often you discover that once you dive into those lives and get below the surface, the veneer, there is a real closeness.
~Chaim Potok

Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I’m walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
~J Courtney Sullivan

I became, and remain, my characters’ close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
~Elizabeth Bowen (Irish author)

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From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
~Isaac Asimov

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
~Moliere

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Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
~Toni Morrison

*X And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.
~Ferdowsi (Persion poet)

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He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
~Antonio Porchia

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.
~George Saunders

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
~Reinhold Niebuhr

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It’s close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
~Elie Wiesel

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When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature ‒ this is very unique to Japan.
~Tadao Ando

My Miyoshi studio in Japan is located in the northern part of Saitama, which puts it in quite close proximity to Fukushima. As such, we can feel the effects of radiation.
~Takashi Murakami

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Being from Miami, you’re used to the fact that your home is a vacation spot. But that’s what makes Miami one of the best places in the world. We’re so rich in different cultures, being so close to Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, and then you’ve got people who travel from all over the world just to come visit.
~Flo Rida

You don’t necessarily have to go to some exotic location halfway around the world. You can find that other world very close to where you live.
~Jeremy Wade

New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely populated, but full of farms and woods, with the most deer of any state.
~Robert Pinsky

Louisiana was as close to South Asia as the United States could get: it had spicy food, humidity, giant cockroaches, and a corrupt government.
~Sal Khan

You can’t find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
~Carrie Fisher

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.
~Marilyn Monroe

Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.
~Chuck Close

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I really can’t believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
~Karl Pilkington

When I’m in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!
~David Blunkett

In ‘Roma,’ I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world… As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream.
~Federico Fellini

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Happiness, for me, has to be real ‒ life that is made of real conversations, of spending quality time with close friends, walks in nature and woods, praying, feeling real gratitude, reading good books, being able to be in the moment and hearing the sounds of nature.
~Bhumika Chawla

Family and close friends who are supportive of you should be integrated into your schedule regularly, to nourish and nurture your overall well being.
~Ace McCloud

But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on.
~Khadija Rupa

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I’ve read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don’t think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.
~Kate Bush

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.
~Prince Harry

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
~Gerard Way

The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora’s box, and you can’t close it again.
~Michael Redhill

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An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone ‒ or even close to everyone.
~Malcolm Gladwell

Sexual performance problems, such as impotence and frigidity, are 70 to 90 percent changeable. But a homosexual who wants to be a heterosexual ‒ that’s close to unchangeable. And a transsexual ‒ say a man who believes he’s really a woman in a man’s body ‒ is completely unchangeable; you’d have to change the body to conform to the psyche.
~Martin Seligman

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.
~Alex Chiu

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth ‒ something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food ‒ just watch it, don’t eat it.
~Ed Koch

I live close to Hampstead Heath, so when I do have spare time, I like to raise my white blood cell count with a swim in the men’s pond. It’s an ambition of mine to swim in the ponds on every day of the year.
~Bertie Carvel (actor/director)

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Prewritten Prompt: close

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Although I am not Jewish, I have been to many Friday night Shabbats at my friends houses, and I absolutely love it. It’s a great and inspiring tradition to keep the family close.
~Yolanda Hadid

My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they’d read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.
~Ann Voskamp

I don’t know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I’m some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
~Henri Matisse

Ritual consists of the external practices of spirituality that help us become more receptive and aware of the closeness of our lives to the sacred. Ritual is the act of sanctifying action ‒ even ordinary action ‒ so that it has meaning. I can light a candle because I need the light or because the candle represents the light I need.
~Christina Baldwin

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The gate of death is the gate of exit; the gate of Heaven is the gate of entrance; but these two are so close together that as the one shuts, the other opens.
~James Campbell

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.
~Frank Butler

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
~S Truett Cathy

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We are not called upon to enter into controversy with those who hold false theories. Controversy is unprofitable. Christ never entered into it. ‘It is written’ is the weapon used by the world’s Redeemer. Let us keep close to the Word.
~Ellen G White

I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn’t personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren’t close to the Spirit.
~Pope Benedict XVI

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
~Gabriel Marcel

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The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
~Khalil Gibran

Jesus didn’t hold people accountable; He just held them close ‒ because it works better.
~Bob Goff

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What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his apostles and priests to go into all the world, and to preach the Gospel?
~John Wycliffe

No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way are revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain, I would be helpless. Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets.
~George Washington Carver

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God operates by different rules of time and space. And God’s infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
~Philip Yancey

The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something ‒ or Someone ‒ beyond itself.
~Eric Metaxas

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When you make a breakthrough it is a moment of scientific exhilaration because you have been on this search and seem to have found it. But it is also a moment where I at least feel closeness to the creator in the sense of having now perceived something that no human knew before but God knew all along.
~Francis Collins

Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is “At Hand.”
~Gilbert K Chesterton

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Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
~William Jennings Bryan

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they’re never really certainties.
~Murray Gell-Mann

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There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It’s the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

To my surprise, I found that geology demanded a type of whole-brain thinking I hadn’t encountered before. It creatively appropriated ideas from physics and chemistry for the investigation of unruly volcanoes and oceans and ice sheets, It applied scholarly habits one associates with the study of literature and the arts ‒ the practice of close reading, sensitivity to allusion and analogy, capacity for spatial visualization ‒ to the examination of rocks. Its particular form of inferential logic demanded mental versatility and a vigorous but disciplined imagination. And its explanatory power was vast; it was nothing less than the etymology of the world.
~Marcia Bjornerud

I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
~Ada Lovelace (programming pioneer)

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If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‘Oh, I forgot that bit,’ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!
~Richard P Feynman

Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do ‒ we’re as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.
~Jensen Huang

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Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds ‒ compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
~Sally Ride

It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
~Neil Armstrong

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it’s not the same ‒ it’s not even close to the same.
~Sally Ride

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Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world ‒ but our internal soundtrack doesn’t turn off. We’re also thinking about pizza or passing a slow tractor or making a turn, and for a magical instant, our lives seem to be in conversation with the stars.
~Elif Batuman

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In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.
~Michael Shermer

Science progresses not because scientists as a whole are passionately open-minded but because different scientists are passionately closed-minded about different things.
~Henry H Bauer

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Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I’m not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that’s probably more than most.
~Joshua Foer

I absolutely hate technology, and I’m computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I’m not convinced that a computer is a labor-saving device.
~Chuck Close

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
~Ken Thompson

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
~Bill Gates

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The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.
~Paramahansa Yogananda

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
~John Buchan

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That’s the fun of going to a high school reunion: it’s seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.
~Jon Hurwitz

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I’m open for possibilities. I’m open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I’m always eager to learn. I’m never going to close my mind from learning.
~Cesar Millan

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
~Eric Allin Cornell

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If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!
~Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everybody has a way to get to college. You study in high school, you do your work. There are always grants or loans that can be available. I guarantee you ‒ if you want it, you can get it. Don’t close the door on yourself.
~Muggsy Bogues

Handloom is a legacy, a craft which involves close to four million weavers in the country. They have to decide how they would like to position their wares in the domestic and global markets. We in the government will support their vision to the best of our abilities.
~Smriti Irani (India)

Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn’t, but it also gave me a way to demonstrate to my teacher that, despite the fact that I couldn’t write a paper or do math, I was paying attention.
~Chuck Close

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§ The Exercise:

roundabout

criticized censor
censored the critic
one opened windows
the other closing doors
same to close the sluice gates
while some chose the healthy pour
some press for less news
some stress the need for more
silence, the submissive state
suggests a slow death, same before

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geriatrics

salt and pepper grey
defaults to pepper spray
insulting and assaulting those
exploring life, world gone astray

blend of foes, famous names
need for fame, forced acclaim
begs applause of empty room
plays with flames framing games

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observations #21

iniquitous nudes
soul wrenching blues
abused and confused
hard times’ faithful muse

ubiquitous awareness
revels in spareness
vs duplicitous crews
manufacturing news

transcendentally embraced
vs edges and corners
limiting learners
boxed in by squareness

mortally cornered
mortality rendered
bad attitude censored
potentially squandered

need turned to greed
the poor left to plead
the last to be first
the rich to know thirst

lacking love means
growing careless
of cosmic wisdom
as karmic fairness

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5s ‘n 7s

soft intelligence of touch
genius sensitivity
standard near to ubiquity
choice: love or serenity
the call to maternity
hard-won, worn-crown: deity
close reach to eternity

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closer than my skin
not love, but something akin
closer yet, my friend

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The following are political in nature, and don’t belong with the august thoughts and quotes normally found in this newsletter. There being no time to set them aside on a separate page, the reader’s tolerance is asked for. Future issues will have avenues of response provided the reader.

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welcome to the outhouse

life’s perfectly impenetrable maze
blind road fogged in fathomless ways
dazed by the news daily strenuous views
merchandising the office, coffers open to offers
beatitude platitudes, forgetting the needy
feeding the greedy hungry orifice lovers
hard to believe what’s left to conceive
harlots for profit as predicted by prophets
poisonous symptoms reflecting conditions
manifest difference: to bend, or be bent
to opt for the dark side this close to the end
welcome to the outhouse, formerly white
former benevolence now ruled out of spite

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towers of power
sweet spot turning sour
proud amateur hour
less science more guess
tame unruly press
embracing the mess
closed minds at their best

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chastised for caring
crippled by this love
close to the heart of…
like the golden rule
as if gospel true

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
~Henry Miller

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.
~David Augsburger

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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
~James Fenimore Cooper

Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand.
~Napoleon Hill

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Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don’t act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, ‘I’m blind.’ So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.
~Morgan Freeman

Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.
~Erich Fromm

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You’re the only one who’s closing your eyes at night. There’s no one else who can do it for you.
~James Caan

I’ve come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.
~Georges St-Pierre

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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
~Lao Tzu

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.
~Zig Ziglar

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I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren’t closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.
~Vincent Price

We did major work at the White House. But what people often don’t understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can’t just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It’s a historic institution, not a showhouse.
~Iris Apfel

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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.
~Willa Cather

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Close scrutiny will show that most ‘crisis situations’ are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
~Maxwell Maltz

Whenever I hear, ‘It can’t be done,’ I know I’m close to success.
~Michael Flatley (choreographer)

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
~Francis Bacon

You shouldn’t get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.
~Bob Newhart

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Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
~Douglas MacArthur

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
~Voltaire

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The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.
~Uzodinma Iweala

When I think about that sunrise that I woke up to that morning, I just feel like I got as close to nowhere as I could get, and found out that it was more of a place than anywhere I’ve been in a long time.
~Hank Green

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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
~Germaine Greer

It’s odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don’t quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
~Lady Bird Johnson

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Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.
~Courtland Milloy

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

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The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you’ll be.
~Ray Dalio

A closed mind is a dying mind.
~Edna Ferber

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Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.
~Anna Quindlen

By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
~Richard Dawkins

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Keep your best wishes and your biggest goals close to your heart and dedicate time to them every day. If you truly care about what you do and you work diligently at it, there’s almost nothing you cant accomplish.
~Melchor Lim (media mogul)

Ah, mastery… what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills… and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
~Gail Sheehy

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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
~Federico Fellini

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
~George Burns

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I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine… Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.
~Chuck Close

If you’re overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.
~Chuck Close

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Celebrity is death ‒ celebrity ‒ that’s the worst thing that can happen to an actor… It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.
~Glenn Close

I’ve often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night.
~Glenn Close

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The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
~Mikhail Baryshnikov

I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. Their fingers hook round the mesh.
~Erich Maria Remarque

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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
~J M Coetzee

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.
~David Small

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I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless.
~Christopher McCandless

There is a community of the spirit.
Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street
and being the noise.
Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace.
Close both eyes to see with the other eye.
~Rumi

The above was saved until last to serve as an invitation to visit the source world for Wordgrove, and the Post & Review. There.com was the first 3D world online, and it is a dying world… but someone outside took an interest, visited for 30 days, and made a video of it. It may be my prejudice, but I found it fun viewing. Consider it an introduction to your invitation.
~BarTalk, of Wordgrove

~Globert: Globatron and There.com • I Spent 30 Days in a Dead Game

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The Olio’s Quote Harvest
https://azquotes.com, https://brainyquote.com, https://dailypnut.com, https://wisesayings.com

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Fun Tarts: https://gocomics.com

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The Salmagundi Video Harvest
https://venmo.com, https://vevo.com, https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com

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