- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Assumed Quotes
What we take for granted, questioned.
These lines explore how a single visit can undo a long-held assumption, like picturing an entire country from one coastal town before ever seeing its capital city.
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- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.
- Conducting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have always assumed that I am privileged. And that has been a problem sometimes. When I first started modelling, and I was schlepping around London with no money, I found it rather irksome that people thought I had a private income when I didn't.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
After my eye test, I was told I was showing symptoms of glaucoma. I realised - but only in retrospect - that pains in my eyes and the feeling of pressure that I had been experiencing must have been because of that. I'd assumed they were symptoms of migraines.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're realizing that gay people are able to do the type of comedy that we just assumed was for straight people over the years. Whatever old boundaries there were, which were very real and still have an effect on us, in the way we socialize, I think that's slowly becoming less important.
- Harnessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020