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I'm kind of a recluse.
Faye Dunaway / Film Actress
Kind
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I'm just a monk, I'm like a recluse.
Y'lan Noel /
Monk
Recluse
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Apparently, I've been considered a recluse.
Mary Oliver / Poet
Recluse
Apparently
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I'm a bit of a recluse, very fond of my own company.
Billie Whitelaw /
My Own
Recluse
Bit
Fond
Company My Own Own
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I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.
Erykah Badu / Singer-Songwriter
Kind
Recluse
Outside
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Illusion
Lazy
Recluse
Feed
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
Alfred Nobel / Chemist
Men
Book
Ink
Recluse
Books
Dead
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I wouldn't call myself a recluse, but I am quiet and reserved.
Barun Sobti /
Quiet
Recluse
Reserved
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I'm not like a total recluse who lives in the woods or anything.
Ben Howard / Singer-Songwriter
Recluse
Woods
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I was pretty dorky in high school. I was pretty much of a recluse.
Ed Mccaffrey /
Dorky
Recluse
School High School High
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Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .
Edward Gibbon / Historian
Communicate
Ideas
Recluse
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I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.
Al Jourgensen / Musician
Hate
Misanthrope
Recluse
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When you are a public personality, you can't afford to be a recluse.
Sridevi /
Recluse
Afford
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I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write
Katherine Mansfield / Writer
Recluse
Writing
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Few people know much about me. I've been so quiet that I'm known as a recluse.
Urmila Matondkar /
Recluse
Me People Know
Few People
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I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.
Morris Gleitzman / Author
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Author
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I became a recluse many times and enjoyed a private life I didn't have during the '60s.
Donovan /
Private Life
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I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.
Kendrick Lamar / Recording Artist
Alone
Truth
Recluse
Definitely
Spend
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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Emily Dickinson / Poet
God
Memorable
Recluse
Spiritual
Thinking
Everywhere
Somewhat
They Say
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I have always been a bit of a recluse, but I really was after the heart thing. And everyone knew.
Bob Mortimer /
Recluse
Bit
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'Recluse' is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters.'
Thomas Pynchon / Novelist
Code
Recluse
Reporters
Journalists
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How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?
Daniel Day-Lewis / Actor
Children
House
Inclination
Recluse
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I have always been a recluse, but 'Bigg Boss' was one place I could share with the country the person I am.
Rahul Roy /
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Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.
Caroline Knapp / Writer
Land
Recluse
Walks
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I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.
Trevor Dunn / Composer
Family
Bird
Lizards
Orphan
Recluse
Swimmer
Fish
Part
Lizard
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Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'
Caroline Knapp / Writer
Loaded
Recluse
Walk Me Feel
Defensive
Quietly
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I'm a quiet person. It's only when I am cued to talk that I talk. Otherwise, I'm reserved and a bit of a recluse.
Fawad Khan /
Quiet
Recluse
Reserved
Otherwise
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My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."
Thomas Pynchon / Novelist
Belief
Journalist
Recluse
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The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.
Agnetha Faltskog / Musical Artist
Earth
Mysterious
Mysterious Woman
Recluse
Thinking
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I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world.
Kourtney Kardashian / Television Personality
Outside World
Recluse
Just Be
Outside
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But I'm more of a recluse when it comes down to being a writer and being a creative person rather than being a celebrity.
Denny Laine /
Creative Person
Recluse
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If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.
Chris Lowe / Musician
If I Could
Recluse
Difficult Thing
Pull
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Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Margaret Fuller / Journalist
Critical
Criticism
Entitled
Essays
Mind
Recluse
Impressions
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A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
Kenko Yoshida /
Leaving
Recluse
Regret
Sky
Attached
Bonds
The Only Thing
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Susan Boyle having a meltdown is not controversial. It's human for a 48-year-old recluse to get a little wigged out when she finds herself on the world stage overnight.
Shawn Amos / Singer-Songwriter
Controversial
Recluse
World Stage
Finds
Herself
Meltdown
Overnight
Susan
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I don't really go out that much, if I'm honest. I'm quite a recluse. If I had my way, I'd probably be at home most of the time with a book and a cup of tea or glass of wine.
Amber Le Bon /
Recluse
Wine
Cup
Glass
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I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.
Elisha Cuthbert / Actress
Canada
Recluse
Bitten
Shower
Spider
Types
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I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
Maya Angelou / Author
Art
Mute
Prose
Prose Poetry
Recluse
Writing
Writer
Art Form
Hermit
Uses
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I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them.
Christopher Lloyd /
Award Shows
Interviews
Intriguing
Recluse
Avoid
Award
Cultivate
Remotely
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My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered into the active concerns of the world and not have been connected with it merely as a writer of books.
William Godwin / Journalist
Active
Contemplative
Former
Recluse
Concerns
Entered
Merely
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My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on. Otherwise, he's a total recluse - he stays in the house and won't leave, and I'm like that. If I'm not working, I'm locked up in my room.
Alessandra Torresani / Actress
Computers
Brilliant
Introverted
Locked
Locked Up
Recluse
Stays
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The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It's like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.
Ben Daniels / Actor
Aspect
Intense
Mountain
Recluse
Sociable
Love Work Myself
Commune
Working
Gets
Older
Shut
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I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous - that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't.
H. P. Lovecraft / Author
May
Nervous
Recluse
I Am Me People
Little
Come
Accident
I Am Me May
Across
May Me I Am
Ever
Essentially
Extremely
Small
Likely
Quantities
Wherever
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I'm far from being reclusive. I have 30- or 40-year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but just because I don't go to a lot of events, and I'm not out in public all the time doesn't mean I'm anti-social or a recluse.
Kirk Kerkorian / Businessman
Occasional
Recluse
Time People New
Prefer
Friendships
Meeting
New People
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I'm not really comfortable with who I am to be honest. I feel more free to step into the shoes of somebody else. There's always an element of me in there but, you know, if you give me a script and some clothes I can do anything. But, as Ryan, I'm a bit of a recluse.
Ryan Kwanten / Actor
Clothes
Give Me
Recluse
Shoes
Who I Am
Always Me Step
I Am Me Step
Element
Ryan
Script
To Be Honest
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I lived alone, I didn't know anybody in New York, and I was definitely a recluse. It had been, like, two weeks, and I realized I hadn't said anything. I was laying in bed, and I was like, 'Hello?' I just talked to hear my own voice. And it was such a strange feeling.
Margaret Qualley / Model
Hello
Recluse
Two Weeks
Talked
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There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.
Dave Gahan / Singer-Songwriter
Construction
Long Island
Painting
Reality Tv
Recluse
Site
Captain
Retire
Island
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Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.
Chris Lowe / Musician
Mean
People
Recluse
Television Shows
Trying
People Difficult Know
Difficult Thing
Explain
Promote
Remain
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People are really surprised when they meet me that I'm a recluse. People think I'm very gregarious and outgoing - and I am - I'm thinking about writing a book about it called 'The Gregarious Recluse.' How the more that you put me out there in front of audiences, the more that when I have down time I have to disappear.
Leslie Jordan / Actor
Book
Disappear
Gregarious
Outgoing
Recluse
Thinking
Writing
Time Thinking Me
Time I Am Me
Time Thinking I Am
Audiences
Front
Meet
Surprised
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