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The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.
I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.
There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.
I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.
There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's slightly scary.
Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.
I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curiosities.
The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions.
I've always been strange; I've always been slightly to the left, like 'weirdo' to other people, I guess.
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.
I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.
I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.
Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.
I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.
And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.
Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.
I'm slightly obsessed with Moomins. They were my specialist subject on BBC's 'Celebrity Mastermind' a few years ago!
That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.
You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.
And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.
Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.
It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.
Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.
I used to watch everybody's stuff, but I found I would get slightly influenced by the other comics. I try to avoid it now.
I've always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It's so inherently chic.
Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.
I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.
I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.
I think for me the final push to move to Paris was the fact I wanted an adventure and I was slightly bored of my life in London.
I'd like to think that I'm getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don't know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
When I first moved to London, there was talk of a folk revival, with annoying names like nu-folk that made me feel slightly ill.
I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified.
In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
I'm a bit of a vault of secrets. I'm a victim of English reserve, which is slightly in contrast to how I communicate when I auction.
The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'
I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.