Marisha Pessl quote: "If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible."

Always live your life with your biography in mind.
MARISHA PESSL

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KELLY JONES

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin s...
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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DUNCAN SHEIK

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin...
ALEXANDER WANG

Don't touch my napkin. I do not want the server to pick up the napkin and put it on my lap. I kn...
TOM COLICCHIO

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to sa...
LUIS BUNUEL

I've been in more laps than a napkin.
MAE WEST

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DAVID RUBENSTEIN

She's been on more laps than a napkin
WALTER WINCHELL

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
SIDNEY POITIER

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JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL

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GEORGIA MAY JAGGER

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES

If I was to have a reality show, it wouldn't be a show based on my personal life. I'd want i...
KEHLANI

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ROBERT KRULWICH

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It t...
LYNN COADY

It goes back to the starfish. That's when the light bulb really popped over my head. We'd fo...
NICK SAGAN

No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our comm...
PETER KREEFT

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if the...
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LUKE PASQUALINO

I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on co...
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ABBEY CLANCY

37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON

If I'm going to be away from my family, I'd rather it be working with my friends.
ADAM SCOTT

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RANDY PAUSCH

It was great to get the experience of making a box. But this is really what we had our eyes set on f...
DAVID HUFFORD

I'm thankful to God for having a family that's been there for me. He's been there from t...
ASHTON SHEPHERD

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RITA RUDNER

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BROOKE ASTOR

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MICHAEL J. FOX

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JESSE MCCARTNEY

You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say.
“I had to come back early.” Sh...
LISA KLEYPAS

Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER

Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conv...
HERB KELLEHER

One merit of poetry few persons will deny; it says more, and in few words, than prose
VOLTAIRE

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RICHIE NORTON

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MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER

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ALEXA CHUNG

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CHARLES HAZLEWOOD

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NEIL GAIMAN

I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myse...
JACKIE EVANCHO

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JIM O'SULLIVAN

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THOMAS MUSTER

When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI

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BOBBY BOWDEN

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DANIEL TAMMET

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CRAIG GROESCHEL

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ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO

Economically and culturally, our identity is much more diversified and complex than it used to be.
WALT CROWLEY

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great....
BJORK

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EVE

I've been in more laps than a napkin.
MAE WEST

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.
DOROTHY MALONE

Apathetic to my pity party, God interrupted in a thunderous Voice with the words, “For we walk by ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN

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EMILIA CLARKE

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MICHAEL EALY

All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once.
THOMAS CARLYLE

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DAVE LOMBARDO

I focus on consumer Internet. Sometimes it's a working prototype; sometimes it's an idea on ...
KEVIN ROSE

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NASTIA LIUKIN

And I watch my words from a long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my ...
PABLO NERUDA

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ALICE WATERS

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SOLANGE KNOWLES

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JEFF FOXWORTHY

This is one of the worst things the Senate has ever done. On the back of a cocktail napkin they have...
GITA GUTIERREZ

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TODD PHILLIPS

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KELLY MACDONALD

I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
JOSH BILLINGS

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INA GARTEN

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CARLOS PONCE

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BUCK OWENS

Let your feelings flow and the scribbled words stay as a sovereign of the moment.
SOMYA KEDIA

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NATALIE PORTMAN

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CRAIG GROESCHEL

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CALISTA FLOCKHART

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ADELE

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ROMA DOWNEY

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JUDE LAW

People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that peop...
ALAN ARKIN

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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

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MARY CHENEY

My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
RAFE SPALL

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CHUCK PALAHNIUK

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GEORGE LEAVELL

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BRAD FELD

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JOHN BONHAM

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MATT DAMON

If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

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If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

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