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Not being boring is quite a challenge. — Ian McEwan

Jesus is a powerful guy in Hollywood. Not quite as powerful as Vin Diesel, but powerful. — Christian Finnegan

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. — Laurence Olivier

I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet. — Greg LeMond

All that a guru can tell you is:
'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself.
You are not the person you take yourself to be.' — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is? — George Sanders

I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it. — P.L. Travers

Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work. — Kirsty Gallacher

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is. — John McEnroe

Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation. — Geoff Dyer

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time! — Alice Hoffman

Isn't it strange how one child can be so lucky, when not a stone's throw away another child's life has taken quite the opposite direction? — Helen Laycock

She'll be ruined if she's not careful," Ella said. "Nonsense. He'd wed her in a heartbeat if he thought she'd have him," Vivi replied. "Quite." A — Sarah MacLean

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite. — Will Rogers

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. — Charles Darwin

Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box. — Talib Kweli

The man that blushes is not quite a brute. — Edward Young

Courage is not what it took to survive. Quite the opposite! You had to be a coward to survive. — Aminatta Forna

I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre. — Gemma Chan

You're a peach full of poison, you know that? Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone. — Frances Hardinge

I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background. — Ben Whishaw

It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one. — Peter Greenaway

Quite honestly, a baby covered in blood, still slightly blue, eyes screwed up, in the first few minutes after birth, is not an object of beauty. — Jennifer Worth

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'
Quite often men are fools. — P.C. Cast

Now I have a cat. Well, that's not quite accurate. A cat and I have each other. — Kinky Friedman

It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break — Ronnie O'Sullivan

Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money. — Kate Reardon

I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself. — B. D. Wong

I am getting quite uneasy about him, though why I should I do not know, but I do wish that he would write, if it were only a single line — Bram Stoker

A lot of people may not know this but I'm quite famous. — Sam Malone

To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task — Etty Hillesum

I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough. — Aung San Suu Kyi

If this was just a dream she wished she could have it every night. Neal not quite whispering sweet somethings into her ear. — Rainbow Rowell

People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true. — Bertrand Russell

A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others. — Charles Dickens

Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal? — Paul Shepard

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment. — William Trevor

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life. — D.A. Botta

I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass. — Kevin McCloud

It may not quite reflect the maturity of "Thy will be done," but it is better to be an honest mess before God than a dishonest "saint. — John Ortberg

I'm quite a broad girl, not at all delicate. I watch what I eat to stay in shape, but I'm against diets. I eat when I'm hungry, three meals a day. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story. — Jenny Agutter

I note at the age of ten a fully developed ability not quite to enjoy myself, a capacity I have retained intact ever since. — Alan Bennett

A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that ... — George Meredith

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool. — John Green

There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers. — Georgette Heyer

I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek. — Rachel Miner

I don't drink, fight & womanise. I am not a wife beater. I don't do nude covers. I don't have a 12-inch long you know what ... I am quite boring. — Shahrukh Khan

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Without "Louie Louie" a symphony is not quite so grand. — Frank Zappa

Not having a father always made you feel that perhaps you weren't quite the same as other people. You felt you weren't complete. — Rosamunde Pilcher

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect. — Jo Nesbo

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience. — Peter Morgan

Quite a place to be, that. When there's no one to tell you not to have another drink. — John Niven

The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity' something quite different, relating to the planet's life-span, not individual life-span. — Thomas Browne

But I will argue that knowing complete product requirements up front is a quite rare exception, not the norm. — Fred Brooks

It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson. — Mike Rogers

To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater. — Richard C. Armitage

I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let yourself alone. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit. — Kevin Whately

Is it possible not to ever know your type-not to even know you have a type-until quite suddenly you do? — Jennifer E. Smith

Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be. — Jennifer Westfeldt

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description — James Joyce

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing. — Robert Green Ingersoll

She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one. — Peter Bergman

Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available? — William Safire

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. — Charles Williams

I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change. — Leisel Jones

It's not so much where I want you,Sophie, as it is how. Nothing tastes quite like a woman, and no woman tastes like you. - Marc Hunter — Pamela Clare

I'm quite an emotional person. I cry a lot. I do not like conflict, so if I have an argument with my parents, I'll often cry. I become too emotional. — Ana Ivanovic

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise. — Dervla Murphy

...a great man. But...not quite great enough. — Lois McMaster Bujold

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along. — Susan Orlean

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.' — Vikram Seth

I have seen quite a lot of things in life. I would not like to change anything. Because every moment of my life has taught me something. — Sunny Deol

Like last night I had a sequence with a gun and, to be honest, for me to be threatening with a gun and not be comical is quite hard. — Phil Collins

But Owen, he hath not a farmer's heart-/
This apple falls quite near his father's tree
- Beru — Ian Doescher

Europeans have a different take [on nudity] than American actors do. They're not quite as hung up. — Dennis Haysbert

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up. — Anne Tyler

Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal. — Sherry Thomas

To anyone seeing him but not knowing him, Saul Panzer was nothing but a little guy with a big nose who never quite caught up with his shaving. — Rex Stout

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done. — Bruce Springsteen

Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time. — Sarah Polley

Quite simply, the key to being a happy non-smoker is to remove the desire to smoke. With no desire to smoke, it takes no Willpower not to do so. — Allen Carr

Matchsticks A Not Quite the Fairy Tale Short Story May Sage — Aimee Easterling

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world. — Charlie Brooker

I have had quite a few injuries during my time and if you are not injured in this sport [bodybuilding], you are not doing anything. — Ronnie Coleman

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves. — Norman Tebbit

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world. — Christopher Hitchens

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed. — Erro

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. — W. Somerset Maugham

I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it. — Daisy Ashford

I'm not quite sure what a normal life is. Surely everyone's life is normal to them? — Francesca Martinez

When you see your male counterparts living a completely different lifestyle, I think it would be quite depressing! So no, it's not for me. — Victoria Pendleton

Be careful not to become narrow-minded, or afraid of reading what is well written, quite the contrary, such writings are a source of comfort in life. — Vincent Van Gogh

Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be. — Walter Mischel

I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly. — Cathy Freeman

You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit. — Donna K. Childree

I've heard myself say that I'm quite charming and not at all a bad sort of fellow, so you can be absolutely certain it's true. — Nicole Sager

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. — Leo Burnett