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We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

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Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are. ↗

— Robert Bresson

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Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

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But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. ↗

— Sergey Brin

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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up. ↗

— Albert Brooks

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I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside. ↗

— James Broughton

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Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off. ↗

— Steven Brust

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It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

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Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit. ↗

— Jeb Bush

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