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Tyson Fury Boxer
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"When my supporters start making noise, Wlad [Klitschko] won't know what has hit him. He'll never have experienced an atmosphere like it."

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Stephen King Author
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"A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it."

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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
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"And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you."

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Henry James Author
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"[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed."

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Kim Harrison Author
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"Pierce made a calculating noise, accidentally brushing my knee as he shifted. "As Jenks would say, you snore nice." I smiled back unconvincingly. I snore nice. Not "I opine that your auditory nasal exhalations are most pleasing."

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Jane Austen Novelist
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"Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity."

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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
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"In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out."

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Jules Renard Writer
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"There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise."

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