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A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind. He will, and does, hover in the still, soft atmosphere of early autumn, when the gossamer falls in showers, coming straight down as if it were raining silk.
Richard Jefferies / Writer
Atmosphere
Autumn
Calm
Showers
Silk
Summer
Wind
Breath
Days
Coming
Early
Falls
Hover
Straight
Raining
Soft
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For me, Christmas was always about presents. As a child, we each had an allotted place in the sitting room for the ceremonial unwrapping and mine was perched beside the telly on a Moroccan pouffe. We would watch our mum with bated breath as she divided up the gifts.
Mel Giedroyc /
Divided
Christmas Always Me
Beside
Breath
Ceremonial
Christmas Me Always
Gifts
Perched
Presents
Telly
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What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.
Alan Alda / Actor
Closing
Pleasant
Anyway
Breath
Throats
Tracks
Unable
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With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
Tara Brach / Psychologist
Children
Creation
Earth
Fall
Falling In Love
Grateful
Heart
Refuge
Walking
Wonder
Life Love Moment
Life Love Heart
True
Belong
Breath
Each
Every Day
Over
Moment
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No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.
Anne Lamott / Novelist
Children
Complacent
Good Old Days
Levels
Life Is
Old Days
Rage
Life Good Live
Breath
Days
Draw
Effectively
Repress
Seem
Tells
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With a smartphone in tow and a playlist humming, a runner may miss the crunch of leaves underfoot, the enthusiastic cheers of benevolent strangers, or even her own breath. And, for many runners, leaving the mobile device at home is the most liberating part of the sport.
Mary Pilon /
Benevolent
Crunch
Enthusiastic
Humming
Liberating
Mobile
Runners
Tow
Miss
Breath
Cheers
Device
Sport
Leaves
Strangers
Runner
Underfoot
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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.
Christian Bale / Actor
Men
Complexity
Devoted
Family Man
Father
Roaming
Should Have
Life Change Family
Anchored
Backpack
Breath
Simply
Map
Pocket
Suited
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I've trained myself to find time to exercise relaxation of the body. I have these programs - I just listen to the instructions, and they're simple. Sometimes you just hold your hand tight and keep your breath - you hold it, hold it, feel all the tension, and then relax.
May-Britt Moser /
Exercise
Relax
Tension
Time Myself Simple
Time Myself Relax
Breath
Instructions
Programs
Trained
Tight
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I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.
Catherine Ryan Hyde / Novelist
Inspirational
Running
Creative
Creative Process
Pages
I Am Day People
Writer
Basically
Breath
Disciplined
No Control
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We still had all our problems growing up as a struggling immigrant family, but Australia was like a breath of fresh air, literally. Playing on grass, having good schools - trees. I didn't even know trees where I'd come from. So from the day I got here, I've loved Australia.
Jimmy Barnes /
Australia
Fresh Air
Grass
Family Good Day
Breath
Good Schools
Struggling
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The world's pretty big. I have to see everything, do everything, eat everything. You'll never be as young as you are right now, so while your legs still work, while you still have the breath in your lungs, go. At the end of our lives, we only regret the things we didn't do.
Philip Rosenthal /
Legs
Lungs
Our Lives
Regret
Breath
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Of course I'm happy when people mention his name and mine in the same breath. It's like a dream. But I know they are overpraising 'Your Name' because I am absolutely not at Miyazaki's level. Honestly, I really don't want Miyazaki to see it because he will see all its flaws.
Makoto Shinkai / Animator
Flaws
Absolutely Not
I Am Your People
Breath
Mention
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I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.
Liam Payne / Songwriter
Blood
Ill
Stressed
Caused
Done Me Never
Breath
Checked
Held
Test
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I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
Harold Feinstein / Photographer
Catching
Extraordinary
Joy
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Photography
Seeing
Witness
Life Love Always
Looking
Life Love Look
Bearing
Oh
Breath
Pictures
Saying
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Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians' breath cadences on their horns and brought it back to speech. It always was speech rhythms or cadences as far as the ear that Kerouac was developing. All passed through black music.
Allen Ginsberg / Poet
Black Music
Developing
Horns
Imitating
Breath
Ear
Passed
Rhythms
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We'll rail against the way the government has destroyed our health care market in one breath and resist the support offered to the poor and middle class to navigate this brokenness with the other. This is not conservative; it is incoherence masquerading as ideological purity.
J. D. Vance /
Destroyed
Health Care
Ideological
Middle Class
Navigate
Purity
Rail
Health Government Care
Breath
Masquerading
Offered
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Every man's heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them bleed deeper and something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized.
The Ultimate Warrior / Professional Wrestler
Beats
Blood
Deeper
Essence
Heart
Lungs
One Day
Pulse
Spirit
Will
Life Man Day
Then
Life Heart Man
Did
Beat
Bleed
Breath
Through
Every
Day
Final
His
Larger
Makes
Others
Something
Than
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I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with.
Sxip Shirey / Composer
Bells
Cream
Ice
Ice Cream
Order
Thinking
Truck
Associated
Backing
Brains
Breath
Compose
Desk
Orders
React
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I try to swim once or twice a week. I basically hold my breath for, like, 12 laps, down and back, to kind of expand my lungs so that I can have better breathing when it comes down to two-minute drives where you've got to play a lot of plays all in one series and you're hurrying up.
Antonio Brown /
Hurrying
Lungs
Series
Swim
Week
Better I Can Try
Twice
Basically
Breath
Drives
Expand
Hold
Laps
Plays
Twice A Week
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In an enclosed space, a camel's breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smell, they literally seem to change the atmospheric pressure. It's so disgusting. It's like they have eight stomachs each more rancid then the next and it just comes out of their mouth.
Steve Carell / Actor
Space
Atmosphere
Disgusting
Eight
Next
Pressure
Smell
Breath
Camel
Each
Enclosed
Literally
Mouth
Room
Seem
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I always like it when I eat myself out of breath. That's a good boost to my day. You know, I'm eating, and I go, 'Oooohhh.' It's better a few moments later when you get to think about it, when you're like, 'Why did I just stop to take a deep breath? Oh yeah, my body also needs air.'
Tom Segura /
Air
Body
Boost
Deep Breath
Moments
Needs
Take A Deep Breath
Yeah
Eat
Go
Good Myself Always
Why
Get
Also
Good Myself Day
Did
Good Myself Better
Oh
Breath
Take
Day
Deep
Few
Later
Oh Yeah
Stop
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When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism.
Rory Bremner / Impressionist
Government
Air
Arrogance
Blair
Fresh Air
Idealistic
Investment
Labour
Pragmatism
Vision
Open
Breath
Bring
Met
Purposeful
Tony
Tony Blair
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There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.
Ramana Maharshi /
Air
Common
Doubt
Mobility
No Doubt
Control
Breath
Gets
Origin
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Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I'm not holding my breath.
Rebecca Solnit / Writer
Tables
Men Man May
Men Man Me
According
Apologized
Less
Breath
Explain
Happen
Holding
More Or Less
Though
Wrongly
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I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
Indira Gandhi / Former Prime Minister Of India
Blood
India
Long Life
Proud
Die
Life I Am Long
Breath
Continue
Life Long I Am
Drop
Spend
Last
Serve
Shall
Strengthen
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How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin / Philosopher
History
Animated
Cells
Decipher
Forever
Impossible
Matter
Mystery
One Day
Whole
History Great World
Breath
Part
Each
Each One
Incorporated
Influences
Reflected
Souls
Successive
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The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea, the ideas that have existed for so long - that we all belong to each other and we could live a deeper spiritual existence - the more I get connected to that, the more I shun this world.
Giancarlo Esposito / Actor
Connected
Deeper
Prayer
Spiritual
Experience World Long
Belong
Breath
Existed
Shun
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I would love to be looked at some day - and I'm not ever saying I'm at this level - but I'd love to be mentioned in the same breath as a Bowie or an Eno. Those are the people that I admire artistically, their career trajectory, the integrity throughout their career, the bravery of their career.
Trent Reznor / Singer-Songwriter
Bowie
Bravery
Integrity
Trajectory
Love Day People
Breath
Mentioned
Throughout
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Job seekers light up when they find The Muse - we're a breath of fresh air in a stale, musty world. Our user experience focuses first and foremost on the individual, on providing them information - from content to company profiles - to make the most pressing professional decisions in their lives.
Kathryn Minshew /
Air
Company
Fresh Air
Individual
Information
Light
Muse
Providing
Seekers
Stale
Decisions
Content
Breath
Foremost
Fresh
Pressing
Professional
User
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You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.
W. Bruce Cameron / Columnist
Dessert
Gravity
Oxygen
Skiing
Bar
Breath
Holding
Lodge
Pull
Strenuous
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Thin people release the fork, and they chew the food with the fork on the table. They chew their food slowly. They look around at each other or the wall or a picture. They listen to the music. They sit back and take a breath. They do something other than concentrate on shoving the food into their body.
Jean Nidetch /
Release
Breath
Chew
Music Food Look
Fork
Slowly
Thin
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I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.
Robert Pinsky / Poet
Wedding
Bar Mitzvah
Bass
Drummer
Melody
Mitzvah
Bar
Bass Player
Bodies
Breath
Time Experience Art
Horn
Piano Player
Roomful
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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
Victor Hugo / Poet
Circles
Concerned
Identical
Attacks
Breath
Waves
Whoever
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No matter how fast or how slow you get to the quarterback, it all goes to slow motion when you get there. Everything just stops. You don't see anything but the quarterback. You don't hear anything but the quarterback's breath. It's almost like you're a shark. Your eyes get real big and everything's just quiet.
Mario Williams /
Quarterback
Quiet
Slow Motion
Almost
Breath
Fast
Eyes
Goes
Hear
Motion
Slow
Shark
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You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
Harold Feinstein / Photographer
Cameras
Guts
Overwhelmed
Pain
Photograph
Sweet
Wide
Breath
Jarring
Releasing
Shutter
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Ordinarily during the stage of your life when you're going through your adolescence and you're completely awkward and uncomfortable, the rest of the world isn't watching you with bated breath. It's different when you're an actor and you choose to work your way through that period because it only makes it worse.
Tina Majorino /
Adolescence
Awkward
Uncomfortable
Life Work World
Breath
Ordinarily
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Meditating is easier than most people think. Start by focusing and following your breath. The goal is not to eliminate thoughts entirely but to continually return to your breath. Taking this time to relax your mind can help sharpen your focus in other aspects of your work and allow you to work for longer periods of time.
Lewis Howes /
Following
Meditating
Periods
Relax
Time Work Relax
Aspects
Breath
Continually
Eliminate
Entirely
Work Time Relax
Work Time Focus
Focusing
Sharpen
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I enjoy worldbuilding very much. I generally start with an approximation. With 'Flesh and Spirit' and 'Breath and Bone,' because I was thinking of a world on the brink of a dark age, I began with the sense of Roman Britain. But I purposely set the geography to match something other than Britain - which has been overdone.
Carol Berg / Author
Age
Approximation
Dark
Enjoy
Flesh
Geography
Thinking
Start Thinking World
Began
Bone
Breath
Brink
Set
Generally
Match
Overdone
Purposely
Roman
Sense
Start
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I feel like an old-fashioned mountain climber when I am making discoveries, seeing something for the first time, realizing that no human before me has ever seen what I am seeing. It takes your breath away - for just a moment, you feel a pause in time, as you know you are crossing a boundary into a new realm of knowledge.
Heidi Hammel /
Mountain
Old Fashioned
Realizing
Crossing
Boundary
Breath
Climber
Discoveries
Pause
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That's a tumor. It goes across my liver, up through my lungs, all the way around my heart. And when they were done trying to cut it out, nuke it out with radiation and chemotherapy it out, it left so much scar tissue that when I walk outside now in cold weather and take a deep breath, it feels like someone is stabbing me.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Chemotherapy
Cold
Cold Weather
Deep Breath
Feels
Left
Liver
Lungs
Radiation
Scar
Take A Deep Breath
Weather
Across
Breath
Cut
Deep
Goes
Walk
Outside
Tissue
Tumor
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
Ralph Bellamy / Actor
Freedom
Air
Country
England
Hills
Inner Life
New England
Prairie
Rising
Sea
Self Respect
Sun
Wide
Life Great Man
American
Life Freedom Great
Breath
Mountains
Draw
Loves
Means
Inner
Plains
Says
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There's a lot of material from my life in my books, but they're not really autobiographical, in the sense that they're not about my life. So, in 'A Feather on the Breath of God' I write about my parents, I write about this Russian immigrant, I write about the world of dance, but it isn't an autobiography; so much is left out.
Sigrid Nunez /
Dance
Autobiography
Left
Life God World
Autobiographical
Books
Breath
Feather
Parents
Immigrant
Material
My Life
Sense
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There's nothing worse than working out and having a guy walk back and forth looking at you, because you know he wants to talk to you, but he's calculating his tactic! Then, somehow, he comes closer and introduces himself while you're halfway through the workout - and super sweaty, with messy hair, bad makeup and out of breath!
Maryse Mizanin /
Calculating
Halfway
Makeup
Messy
Workout
Breath
Closer
Forth
Somehow
Super
Sweaty
Tactic
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When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.
Meryl Streep / Actress
Records
Streisand
Breath
Collected
Sang
Swell
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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
W. E. B. Du Bois / Historian
Girl
Black
Black Or White
Greek
Human Soul
Machinery
Mortar
Real
School
Soul
Study
Teach
Living
American
Boy
Boys And Girls
Breath
Cultivated
Houses
Piles
Russian
Send
Strengthened
Trained
Themselves
Whether
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It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
Bryn Terfel / Bass
Achievement
Air
Clean
Clean Air
First Time
Milestone
Mother Tongue
Rehearsal
Singing
Tongue
Welsh
Time Mother Always
Breath
Cast
Cent
Itself
Fresh
Per
Room
Personally
Speaking
Walked
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