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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Walker Evans / Photographer
Knowing
Long
Staring
Die
Eavesdrop
Pry
Stare
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I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.
Katherine Kelly /
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Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.
Jodi Picoult / Author
Book
Inside
Everyone
Any
Pry
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On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.
Marvin Olasky / Editor
Courage
Issues
Real
Sensitive
Topics
Open
Cheap
Nailed
Pry
Sensitive Issues
Shut
Takes
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I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.
John Byrne / Comic Book Writer
Defeat
Length
People
Way
Life Me People
Defeats
No Interest
Pry
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I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.
Penn Jillette / Illusionist
Cheesy
Cold
Fingers
Magic
Show
Dead
Intend
Magic Wand
Penn
Pry
Teller
Wand
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It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Walker Evans / Photographer
Long
Die
Here
Eavesdrop
Eyes
Pry
Stare
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As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.
Frank Ocean / Singer
Creator
Giving
Beyond
Experiences
Pry
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I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket.
Philipp Meyer / Fiction Writer
Blanket
Guide
Mechanical
Pry
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I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition.
Colin Farrell / Film Actor
Entertaining
Film
Human Condition
Thinking
Condition
Films
Pry
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There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.
John M. Ford / Fictioneer
Ideas
Want
Writing
Clearly
Forth
Meanings
Pry
Readers
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When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
Maya Lin / Designer
Business
War
Artist
Memorial
Point Of View
Vietnam
Views
Asked
Other
Point
Pry
Veterans
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I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.
Dick York / Actor
Evidence
Fit
Teeth
Tongue
Apart
Bite
Denying
Hole
Pry
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In a career of trying to pry secrets, gossip, specificity and truth out of media executives, Ailes has been the most forthcoming, personal, compelling and honest I've ever dealt with.
Michael Wolff /
Compelling
Executives
Forthcoming
Gossip
Specificity
Dealt
Pry
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Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.
Jill Lepore / Professor
Government Programs
Mysterious
Privacy
Secrecy
Secular
Affairs
Programs
Pry
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I don't have Facebook; I don't have Twitter. I don't have anything because, believe it or not, I'm a very, very private person! I don't even have WhatsApp! I don't like to pry into people's business.
Wissam Al Mana /
Whatsapp
Business Believe People
Facebook
Private Person
Pry
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It's what I do best - pry into people's business and mind their business. I can't help myself. I can't even go through the grocery line of the grocery store without talking to people and then giving them my opinion.
Delilah /
Giving
Opinion
Talking
Best Business Myself
Grocery
Grocery Store
Line
Pry
Store
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I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.
Eminem / Rapper
Flaws
Totally
Music Great Me
Hear
Record
Literally
Pry
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If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you're just exploring the art world for the first time, I invite you to turn off the boob tube, pry the Wii controllers from your kids' hands, and drag them to a museum.
Lynda Resnick /
Art World
Drag
Exploring
First Time
Time Art World
Art Time World
Invite
Museum
Pry
Tube
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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
Pauline Kael / Film Critic
Motivational
Chance
Doors
Feet
Needs
Want
Way
Will
Need
Anything
Open
You
Door
Ending
Foot
Million
Pry
Something
Wedge
Where
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There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.
Damian Lewis / Actor
Acting
Avoiding
Distinction
Fodder
Giving
License
People
Private Life
Life Your May
Life May Your
Life People Private Life
Life People Your
Pry
Tabloid
Therefore
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I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.
Ayelet Waldman / Novelist
Cocktails
Dozen
Mama
Pity
Attempt
Herself
Loose
Monumental
Pry
Sympathize
Task
Young Woman
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