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I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. -- Norman MacCaig
I am tired of angry feminists. I like my women happy, gregarious... and bathed. -- Evan Sayet
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. -- Karen Armstrong
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I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went. -- America Ferrera
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. -- Thomas Mann
I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed. -- Gabriel Byrne
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. -- Karl Marx
It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't. -- Guy Ritchie
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. -- Northrop Frye
I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid. -- Sutton Foster
I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken. -- Mamie Gummer
I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing -- Dan Fogelberg
Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites. -- Jayne Meadows
My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family. -- Stephen Mangan
My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic. -- Hugh Jackman
I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type. -- Al Pacino
My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny. -- Richard Simmons
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers. -- Katori Hall
The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment. -- Ivor Novello
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that. -- Barbra Streisand
I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it. -- Charlotte Rampling
The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared. -- Francis Galton
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology. -- Susan Cain
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest. -- Bertrand Russell
I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like people; I enjoy people. -- Jerry Weintraub
The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work. -- Moby
Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to spend an Emily Dickinson adolescence reading poetry on gravestones, which I did. -- Betty Friedan
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. -- George Santayana
Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. -- Susan Cain
In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putting himself out there. -- Susan Cain
In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who's comfortable 'putting himself out there.' -- Susan Cain
I am a very peaceful man. I love people and am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time. -- Michael Badnarik
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' -- Albert Finney
I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery. -- Jack Nicklaus
I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active. -- Niall Ferguson
In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk. -- Rob Lowe
You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo, and saying, 'No mother would want that for her child, no matter how great the artist.' I have my share of demons, but I am a gregarious sort. -- Scott Turow
Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life. -- Walt Disney
The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president. -- Christine Pelosi
I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
agoraphobia was my quirky armor against a gregarious America ... -- Florence King
Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious. -- Kenneth Tynan
Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys. -- Stella Benson
Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more. -- Nelson Mandela
I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary. -- Fran Lebowitz
Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously. -- Charles Dickens
Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced. -- John Ruskin
Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. -- George Orwell
We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I'm less comfortable in a gregarious social situation, and you can be introverted and still share everything. It just means that you're guarded. -- Neil Peart
Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling him down. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
It would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience. -- Tracee Ellis Ross
I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way. -- Jonathan Lethem
The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial. -- Phyllis McGinley
Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous -- Jeremy Brett
We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind. -- William James
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria. -- Clifton Fadiman

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