"If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle."
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"And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chip cookies warm and soft in the middle...and without magnets glued to them." "Me, too. When you decide to bake me some, let me know."
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"Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert."
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"I'm just happy being dumpy. Dumpy, fat and middle-aged."
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"A publisher is simply a useful middle-man."
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"Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?"
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"And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone."
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"For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient."
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"It does feel like the middle ground has fallen out. I'm only saying that from personal experience, saying, "I'd like to make that movie" and hearing, "Oh, they're not making those types of movies anymore.""
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"How could I possibly keep my cool while getting sweaty with him? What if I screamed out something horrifying, like "I love you?" What if I had an epileptic attack and started drooling or spitting right in the middle of things?"
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"I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out."
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"The philosophers must station themselves in the middle."
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"People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?"
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"In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud."
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"Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific."
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"True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness."
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"In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness."
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"Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?."
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