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A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.
August Wilson / Playwright
People
Reading
Solitary
Thrilling
Writing
Nature Time People
Nature Time May
Communal
Respond
Elicit
Varied
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher / Minister
Strength
Great
Attraction
Being Strong
Fellows
Glory
Loneliness
Lying
Solitary
Strong
Used
Most
Above
Being
Greatest
Man
Only
Own
He
Carries
Carry
Hearts
His
Lies
Up
Right
Serve
Using
Whose
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Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.
Joss Whedon / Screenwriter
Isolation
Mean
Relate
Solitary
Superhero
Team
Writing
Simpler
Tends
Wanting
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Romney Marsh remains one of the last great wildernesses of south-east England. Flat as a desert, and at times just as daunting, it is an odd, occasionally eerie wetland straddling the coastal borders of Kent and Sussex, rich in birds, local folklore and solitary medieval churches.
David Hewson / Author
Borders
Coastal
Desert
Eerie
England
Folklore
Medieval
Remains
Rich
Romney
Solitary
Birds
Churches
Daunting
Flat
Local
Marsh
Occasionally
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Too often, tributes to the home-cooked meal assume every family has a schedule that gets everyone home by 5:30 P.M. And too many recipes treat cooking as a solitary pursuit that requires the cook - still most often Mom - to take time away from other family interactions and chores.
Stephanie Coontz / Author
Chores
Pursuit
Solitary
Time Family Home
Time Family Mom
Assume
Family Time Home
Interactions
Meal
Schedule
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I think there's something beautifully old fashioned about waiting all week then sitting down and watching something on television together. I'm generation box set, accustomed to binging on multiple episodes at a time, which is fun but quite a solitary pursuit because you do it alone.
Elizabeth Debicki / Film Actress
Accustomed
Episodes
Multiple
Pursuit
Solitary
Beautifully
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Well, I'm a runner, and I have to run with Secret Service - even though they can run twice as fast. It took me a while to get used to running with them, because I love the solitary aspect of it. So I have two rules. First, I can't hear their feet. And second, I can't see their shadows.
Jill Biden / Wife Of The Vice President Of The United States
Solitary
Shadows
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I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.
Steve Martin / Actor
Romantic
Alone
Men
Casual
Childhood
Circumstances
Easier
Given
Ideas
Illusion
Loner
Raised
Solitary
Thinking
Also
Meant
Idea
Pose
Relationships
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Through every struggle that I have been confronted with and have been subjected to - solitary confinement, long legal battles, and physically transitioning to the woman I have always been - I manage not only to survive, but to grow, learn, mature, and thrive as a better, more confident person.
Chelsea Manning / Soldier
Legal
Confinement
Manage
Mature
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Thrive
Battles
Confronted
Subjected
Survive
To Survive
Transitioning
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There is a heavy-ego, solitary model of being an elected leader. We've certainly seen that in some other mayors of this city... I have much more of a Movement mentality. It's much more of what I'm steeped in. I don't think it is first and foremost about me. It's about the ideas and the agenda.
Bill De Blasio / Mayor Of New York City
Mayors
Mentality
Solitary
Foremost
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
Dan Brown / Author
Movie
Chaos
Character
Compromise
Decision
Existence
Looks
Moving
Moving Parts
Solitary
Tough
Writing
Parts
Talks
Thousands
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I like stand-up. But I'd also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of people, have colleagues; and on good film sets, there's people there that work with the same people for years and years. I love that collaborative spirit in that medium. Comedy is a lot more solitary.
Demetri Martin / Comedian
Colleagues
House
People
Solitary
Years
Love Family Work
Love Work Family
Film Sets
Good Film
Medium
Sets
Yard
Years And Years
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That's one of the great things about creativity. You labor away in a room, and when you're writing a film, it couldn't be more of a solitary activity or a lonelier job, but if you then write a film that gets made and goes out into the world, it kind of flies away from you. It's not yours anymore.
Leigh Whannell / Screenwriter
Activity
Great Things
Labor
Solitary
Anymore
Flies
Lonelier
Yours
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We as humans, we're not solitary people, we're like dogs, we like to live in packs and know about one another. And, if anything, fame is people trying to attain community on a mass scale, because when you become famous wherever you go people know about what you've done and what you're about to do.
Ben Fogle /
Famous
Fame
Humans
Mass
Packs
Solitary
Scale
Attain
Dogs
Wherever
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We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system.
Nicholas A. Christakis / Physician
Components
Embedded
Fallacy
Solitary
Deeply
First Of All
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I did a lot of research on what solitary confinement does to you, how you become acclimated to being surrounded by people again after being by yourself for such a long time. It's really a horrific thing. It's definitely worth considering it as torture. We're just not meant to be in solitary confinement.
Bill Skarsgard / Actor
Confinement
Considering
Horrific
Long Time
Meant To Be
Research
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Torture
Time Yourself Long
After
Did
Meant
Definitely
Time Long Yourself
Such A Long Time
Surrounded
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Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.
Andy Warhol / Artist
Action
Born
Chains
Compromise
Courageous
Human Beings
Negotiation
Ridiculous
Social
Solitary
Strange
Way
Wish
Everywhere
Always Sometimes Way
Beings
Between
Forms
Often
Daisy
Her
Yours
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There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter.
Kelly Slater / Surfer
Daughter
Sports
Boards
Elements
Mother
Passing
Solitary
Surfing
Family Mother Long
Different Elements
Exercising
Sport
Waves
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Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
Nancy Gibbs / Essayist
Friends
Crowds
Lost
Marathon
Matter
Months
Pain
Rain
Reason
Runners
Solitary
Surrender
Training
Years
Come
Public
Early
Exalt
Flap
Private
Push
Signs
Stomp
Test
Weekends
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As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.
Julian Assange / Journalist
Confinement
Media
My Time
Organization
Partners
Release
Revelations
Robust
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Victorian
Wikileaks
Writing
Approximately
Basement
Material
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Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going.
Patrick Modiano / Novelist
Activity
Pages
Solitary
Track
Creates
Different Path
Urge
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Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass.
Marketa Irglova / Singer-Songwriter
Doors
Nice
Opening
Self Conscious
Solitary
Writing
Door
Instrument
Letting
Pass
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The saddest utensil I've come across is an 'anti-loneliness ramen bowl,' which holds your iPhone to keep you company as you slurp your solitary bowl of noodles. But the iPhone cannot return your gaze or reassure you that you didn't squeeze too much lime into the soup, though maybe a dinner-conversation app is only a matter of time.
Bee Wilson /
Iphone
Noodles
Return
Saddest
Solitary
Across
Time Your Keep
App
Bowl
Gaze
Holds
Lime
Reassure
Squeeze
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
Idina Menzel / Actress
Different Times
Performing
Solitary
Life Experience Better
Forth
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I'm in a really nice position because I can be selective with the modeling jobs that I do and just work with brands I'm passionate about. The two worlds balance out nicely for me because modeling is so social - it has travel, you meet people, it's extroverted. Whereas painting is very solitary - when I paint, I'm kind of in my own world.
Tali Lennox /
Brands
Modeling
Paint
Passionate
Selective
Solitary
Work Travel World
Extroverted
Nicely
Whereas
Worlds
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When Nina Simone first sings the title of 'Feeling Good,' her voice has been alone for thirty-nine seconds. The solitary singer: there's always something fiat lux about it. Resolute, the individual moves through the void. You know the accompaniment is coming, but the voice, all by itself, makes you care about it: form turns into feeling.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips /
Nina
Resolute
Seconds
Solitary
Turns
Void
Feeling Good
Fiat
Sings
Title
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My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.
Doug Aitken / Artist
Brain
Chaotic
Edited
Function
Just One
Office
Sides
Solitary
Structure
Tranquil
Unfolding
Architectural
Buildings
Project
Medium
Pull
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If you have high-functioning autism, you may well have a lot of autistic traits but if you've got a particular lifestyle where it's possibly an advantage to be leading a solitary lifestyle and be quite obsessive, you're clearly able to function and maybe even make valuable contributions in your work, so arguably you don't need a diagnosis.
Simon Baron-Cohen / Professor
Autism
Diagnosis
Function
Lifestyle
Obsessive
Solitary
Traits
Valuable
Work Your May
Work Where Your
Arguably
Work May Your
Contributions
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After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57. He and my mother had always played tennis - a couples' game of mixed doubles and tennis bracelets and Love-Love. But in mourning, Dad turned Job-like to golf, a game of frustration and golf widows and solitary hours on the range.
Steve Rushin / Journalist
Disease
Frustration
Golf
Hours
Jane
Mourning
Range
Solitary
Tennis
Widows
Abrupt
Couples
Doubles
Mixed
Sept
Turned
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