"I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back."
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"Writing is not some quiet, closet act."
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"She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)"
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"We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here."
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"I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence."
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"I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing."
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"Acceptance is a small quiet room."
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"Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us, in Fulke Greville's unforgettable line, "Created sick Commanded to be well." And there are totalitarian insinuations to back this up if its appeal should fail."
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"You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do."
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"If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working."
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"Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen."
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"I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all."
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"I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame."
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"And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear."
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"I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven."
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"Quiet moments recharge me."
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"To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind."
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"A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene."
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"It's been very quiet, quite frankly. Nothing good, nothing bad."
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"The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing."
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