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• I’ve decided to tell my kids things like: ‘I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.’ I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.

  Randy Pausch

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• Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that’s what I really chased.

  Leander Paes

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• Christianity is a very historical religion – it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

  Lee Strobel

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• I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

  Wilbur Smith

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• I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you’re going through. it’s not just a story.

  Maria Semple

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• My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

  David Schwimmer

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• I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.

  Rupert Sanders

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• I don’t watch something just because it’s a specific genre.

  Drew Roy

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• There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn’t know. But everyone’s really different. I’ve worked with women who I’ve never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I’ve worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

  Kristen Stewart

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• The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California,specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.

  Dave Foley

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• If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing – like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album – the end result is what counts.

  George Strait

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• Today, I’m very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

  Galen Rowell

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• My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

  David Hasselhoff

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• It’s often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.

  Steve Chabot

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• And I don’t have any specific steps to take because I don’t start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it’s enough and you can leave it alone.

  Bruce Nauman

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• You can theorise about the options you have but in reality they are very specific.

  Georgios A. Papandreou

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• Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

  Eric Hoffer

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• I’ve left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

  Timothy Leary

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• Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

  Imelda Marcos

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• It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

  L. Sprague de Camp

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