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I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it. ↗

— Anne Tyler

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My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#always #character #color #form #him

I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose. ↗

— Roy Wood

#bands #because #big #changed #each

My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

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I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#advanced age #age #began #family #growing

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#american #cars #come #completely #computers

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american culture #black #common #culture #dna

My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

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I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person. ↗

— Damian Lewis

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