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"I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there."
"He knows that he must act, but he must allow room for the Universe to act too."
"Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced."
"No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language."
"There wasn't room to swing a cat there."
"I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going."
"I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that."
"We had an awesome locker room of girls, and I'm honored to have shared a locker room with all those girls."
"There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance."
"There is no room in my body for anything but you."
"Given certain known factors in an equation and the equation comprising a situation of absolute need - any form of need - you can predict the results. Leave a sick junkie in the back room of a drugstore and only one result is possible."
"Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves."
"most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth."
"There should be at least a room or some corner where no one will find you and disturb you or notice you."
"In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do."
"If I ever do get married," Tariq said, "they'll have to make room for three on the wedding stage. Me, the bride, and the guy holding the gun to my head"
"If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any."
"I argue with myself, get mad at myself, throw myself around the room and then apologize to myself."
"There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill."
"The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building."
