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Obviously everybody, if you're playing in the league, you've got to have somewhat of an ego about how you play the game.
When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely.
I like to remain somewhat anonymous. I could never handle the whole Britney Spears syndrome of being noticed everywhere.
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
It's hard to describe the work of the British-born Australian writer Elizabeth Jolley without somewhat misrepresenting it.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
I tread lightly with social media. I don't dislike it. I'm just not sure what I'm doing, and I'm a somewhat private person.
Members of Congress are somewhat reluctant to tangle with a president who seems to have the backing of the American people.
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.
I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.
My objective with strategy is to be very repetitive, to be somewhat boring, to allow people to coalesce behind a common direction.
America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male.
There must be something wrong with the mirrors in our house because every single one I gaze into makes me appear somewhat overweight.
It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to do every game.
At one point, I quit acting for a little bit to study psycholinguistics - somewhat a more practical career. It just didn't feel right.
You have to be somewhat ruthless with your work. You have to let things go. Even your favourite little part might not work in the end.
As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
I like to put a little spin on traditional styles as I see them now, probably somewhat inspired by my current job on 'Boardwalk Empire.'
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.
Sometimes I'll go with a long hijab, or sometimes I'll wear my scarf and go somewhat business-y with a blazer. Every day is something new.
I grew up without religion, but my parents have always been somewhat mystical about nature: The mountain is looking at us, stuff like that.
I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Working with Woody Allen was extremely gratifying. He has such a vast catalog of great work that doing one of his films was somewhat unreal.
Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution.
Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.
I feel like, by now, if you don't understand that the playoffs can be somewhat of a crapshoot sometimes, then you don't watch enough baseball.
I can't get into the underlying psyche of someone like Robin Williams, but he was at that level of fame where he was somewhat self-protective.
We're always trying to make advancements in the arts and technology, so it's somewhat inevitable that we're going to make holograms of people.
I am not a big artist myself. I am, I guess, a somewhat successful songwriter now, but I think that my value is Ghost and my writing via Ghost.
There is a somewhat different struggle when one comes from a film family. If you don't work hard enough or are not talented, you won't make it.
My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that I was going to be a plumber when I grew up.
The criticism people could have of my music maybe is that it's somewhat schizophrenic at times. And if you don't like that, it could bother you.
I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.
I was a difficult kid and a somewhat indifferent student but realized somehow that a new start at a good place, and far from home, was important.
The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them.
The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian.
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.
I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.
Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
It is somewhat remarkable that Cornwall has produced no musical genius of any note, and yet the Cornishman is akin to the Welshman and the Irishman.
Pilot season after pilot season, I read the same part: the wife who rolls her eyes at her somewhat immature husband that she still loves. Literally.
Based on the science, you can make somewhat clear statements: The number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep without impairment is zero.
The great thing about the comedy world is that everybody is somewhat of an outsider. That's the community where outsiders feel like they're insiders.