"Look as long as you can at the friend you love, no matter whether that friend is moving away from you or coming back toward you."
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"What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached."
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"If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long."
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"I feel that very strongly: having been an academic, having been tempted by the invitation to stay on to become a Ph.D., a professor, and all that, one side of me certainly does respect all disciplines, as long as they don't ossify."
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"No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly."
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"We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It's been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about music education."
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"But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards."
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"Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise."
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"No, nothing,' said Dumbledore, and a great sadness filled his face. 'The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a burning wardrobe and force you to make repayment for your crimes. But I wish I could, Tom... I wish I could."
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"I've wanted to be an author as long as I can remember. English was always my favorite subject at school, so why I went on to do a degree in French is anyone's guess."
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"And what will you give me in return, Severus?' 'In - in return?' Snape gaped at Dumbledore, and Harry expected him to protest, but after a long moment he said, 'Anything."
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"I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck."
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"If you're stuck in traffic, call a friend or listen to a favorite podcast. If you're waiting in a long line, make friends with a person in line with you. There are lots of ways we can change the vibe."
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"You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde"
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"You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming."
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"Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry."
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"Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side."
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"When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose."
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"And, it seems like a whole new generation of kids have discovered his genius and are bringing him to life again. I hope that wherever Michael is right now he is smiling about this. Yes, Michael Jackson was a human being but he was a king. Long live the king."
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"That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it."
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