"Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness."
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"When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well."
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"It's difficult enough for a young person to put his soul on the line in front of a lot of drunken people without having that hanging over his head, too."
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"Vitamin C is a very effective immune booster and probably the safest first line of defense for infection."
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"I'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve no purpose, except to point out each new line, which is very meaningless."
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"Sometimes you don't realize you've crossed a line until you're on the other side and can't go back."
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"There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead."
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"The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?"
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"Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty."
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"Investments are like trains, and if you miss one, don’t worry because another one will come down the line."
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"It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it."
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"The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along."
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"Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry You’ll be a cliché by and by."
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"What happened in Syria was, President [Barack] Obama had made a statement announcing what he called his "red line": You can't use chemical weapons, you can do anything else but [use] chemical weapons."
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"As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line."
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"It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation."
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"The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched."
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"I don't buy the 'at 60 it's great to have kids' thing. I don't buy the line that has been thrown down - 'You can have a kid at any time.' That doesn't mean you should."
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"Put temptation on the unenjoyment line."
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"If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back."
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