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My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.
Gloria Swanson

Family, Friends, Personal

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
Edward Bond

Art, Society, Reality

We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
Jack Adams

Moving, Two, Found

My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There's nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light. And that smell is unmistakable. Once you experience their musk in the wild there's no going back! A close second would be a varmint hunt.
Chris Pratt

Experience, Nothing, Light

One of the causes close to me is human trafficking, and I was first aware of it when I was modeling in Thailand. I came home to Canada and did more research and found out how big the problem was.
Shay Mitchell

Home, Human, Problem

I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.
Paul Wolfowitz

Life, Personal, Few

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.
Todd Gitlin

Patriotism, Surpass, Tribal

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.
Todd Gitlin

Politics, Experience, Important

I love my horror films and they will always be very close to me.
Amber Heard

Love, Films, Horror

I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.
Jet Li

Girl, Through, Brave

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.
Jet Li

Family, Food, Two

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.
Morris Chestnut

Character, Friend, Die

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.
Nia Vardalos

Dad, Wanted, Used

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.
Joan D. Vinge

Age, Religion, Eyes

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Frank Herbert

Truth, Respect, Morality

I would say that during my lifetime, one of the worst political scandals in Sweden was absolutely what happened surrounding the affair of the submarines in Swedish waters in 1982, where there were supposed to be Russian submarines close to Stockholm. And the military of Sweden never got one up.
Henning Mankell

Political, Military, Worst

We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?
Linda McCartney

Amazing, Yourself, Together

We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.
Heston Blumenthal

Everything, Times, Several

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.
Elizabeth Hurley

Famous, Able, Child

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.
Andrea Arnold

Work, Hard, Quite

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas

Friend, Him, Two

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.
Pete Rose

Greatest, Game, Hard

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
Federico Fellini

Good, Together, Film

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
John Berger

Travel, Others, Seeing

Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.
Adam Levine

Amazing, Nobody

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
Fran Drescher

Home, Character, Away

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.
Kathleen Turner

Acting, Alive, Film

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.
Dave Brubeck

Great, Future, Hard

I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
Barry Gibb

Love, Change, Family

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
Paul Getty

Friendship, Business, Ventures

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