"The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act."
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"Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements."
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"I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful."
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"To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul."
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"Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you watch a lot of Cartoon Network and drink mid-price Chardonnay at 11 in the morning."
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"For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word."
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"If you want to be rich watch what rich people do everyday and do it. And watch what poor people do and don't do it."
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"I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time."
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"I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."
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"Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do."
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"Sometimes I just want to be with my family and watch movie and eat some popcorn. But when I step on the mat I know there is no other place I'd rather be."
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"If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves."
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"You watch the news these days? It's unbelievable. You think you just walk out your door, you're immediately gonna be raped by some crack-addicted, AIDS-infected pitbull."
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"I watch my YouTube videos over and over."
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"One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in response to something outside yourself. They are all reactions. You cultivate a quietness in yourself that watches these emotions rising and falling and passing away."
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"A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising."
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"Watch the one ahead of you, and you'll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him."
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"I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else."
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"If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him."
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"Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean."
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