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• Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to

  Susan Cain

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• I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I’m an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

  Ian McEwan

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• This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.

  Benjamin Tucker

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• I’m always described as ‘cocksure’ or ‘with a swagger,’ and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

  Ben Affleck

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• He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

  Barbara Anne Castle

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• I’m a very outgoing person. I’m always happy, I’m one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else, they’d say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody.

  Corbin Bleu

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  Tags in Person, Happy, Described

• The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.

  Simon Newcomb

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• It amuses me when I’m described as ‘chic.’

  Vanessa Paradis

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• On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately ‘lanky,’ ‘pudgy,’ ‘doughy,’ ‘balding,’ ‘utterly forgettable,’ and ‘constantly irritating.’

  Stephen Tobolowsky

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• Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

  Ashley Montagu

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• I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really – it’s so boring.

  Tom Baker

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  Tags in Outrageous, Athlete, Ecstatic, Described, Disappointment

• The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram – that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.

  Stephen Leacock

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