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"I hope I'm better looking than Yoda, but - I'm really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can't figure out why they can't make it spread."
"She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?"
"Authority figures always attract trouble"
"Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest."
"To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant."
"I know my flavor's going to work because I just know there's not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what's that about you."
"We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away."
"Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession."
"I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figure something out." Liesl managed to smile at him. She liked that word: *we*. It sounded warm and open, like a hug."
"If a woman is into me, it usually takes me awhile to figure that out. She has to hit me over the head with it."
"I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be."
"I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures."
"You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures."
"Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out."
"By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti."
"Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward."
"We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out."
"I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!"
"You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it."
"I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life."
