- Big Surprise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quiet Quotes
Stillness, chosen on purpose.
This page gathers a simple preference for a quiet life alongside a wry observation that staying quiet is something people often struggle to manage. Related reading is in Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dirty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a pretty quiet person.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.
- Border
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an entire section of Beirut, the northern border has been absolutely quiet.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy the quiet life.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I come away from the ground, I'm quite quiet, but I like match day - that's when I come alive.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
- Machine
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- Nov 07, 2020
My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a private person. I am quiet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quiet, so people might think I'm a mute.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020