"As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway."
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"I am free now to detach myself from what used to be."
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"I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files."
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"Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment."
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"Get used to disappointment."
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"I don't smoke as many joints as I used to."
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"War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid."
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"I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business."
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"I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character."
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"I'm used to people clapping at the end of the movie."
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"There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was."
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"Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively."
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"When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing."
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"And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair."
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"I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well."
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"Forever used to feel like a curse. Now it feels like a promise."
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"I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead."
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"I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it."
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"In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well."
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"I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself."
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