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We're getting closer to our nature. -- Clifford Geertz
I keep trying to perfect my mother's meatloaf recipe. I will never get it perfect, but I'm getting closer. -- Diane Sawyer
Keep going; your destination is getting closer. -- Debasish Mridha
Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God. -- Corbin Bernsen
If you're not getting close to capsize, you're provably not pushing hard enough -- James Spithill
I'm hitting it better than last year. The putting is getting close now, too. -- Lee Westwood
Just because I keep getting close and don't win these Majors, I must not panic. -- Lee Westwood
Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important. -- Seth Godin
The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Sometimes words were less valuable than the air that carried them when it came to getting close. -- J.R. Ward
As a Christian, when your trial is getting hotter, you are getting closer to your breakthrough! Keep pressing! -- T. B. Joshua
The terrain is thinner, the vegetation is greener, that's a good sign we're getting close to the coast. -- Joe Teti
Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it. -- Gerhard Richter
It is not good practice to become intrigued by Satan and his mysteries. No good can come from getting close to evil. -- James E. Faust
Proud people keep others at arm's length. Broken people are willing to take the risks of getting close to others and loving intimately. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close. -- Michio Kaku
Very simply, our physical and spiritual safety lies in never even getting close to the line that separates light from dark, good from evil. -- Sheri L. Dew
Maybe that's the way I'm private - I respect the privacy of "my" characters? Anyway, we're getting close to the whole "relatability" and "likability" thing. -- Ben Lerner
Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to solve. -- Dee Dee Myers
We're getting close to making our vision a reality. It's exciting to be on the cusp of opening our doors to the public. We're right on schedule. -- James K. Coyne, III
I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something. -- Yohji Yamamoto
I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you. -- Simone Elkeles
I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had gone out and bought a lot of shirts. -- Joe Meno
It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle. -- Bill Gates
We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that occurs in countless planes. It's indigenous to enlightenment. -- Frederick Lenz
I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us. -- William T. Vollmann
You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer. -- Sol Wachtler
There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal. -- Chogyam Trungpa
That, dillop brain, is what getting close to the Darke does. It makes you think only of yourself. It takes you away from people you care about. And now you don't have anyone to talk to and it serves you right. -- Angie Sage
I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode. -- Cam Newton
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while. -- Richard Russo
I know I can't plan in this business, but I'm going to keep going as long as I keep getting close... So far, I feel lucky and infinitely grateful for the successes that I've had. I'm just going to keep working hard, and whatever happens, happens. -- Aaron Lazar
I mentioned earlier the two wings of awareness. The first step is recognizing the fear of getting close to others - this honest witnessing of where it is in the body, where it is in your beliefs.The other wing regards what's seen with kindness and compassion. -- Tara Brach
If I had a project that I had auditioned for and I was getting close to getting it, I didn't want to tell anybody because I thought then I wouldn't get it, but in reality that really had no bearing on whether or not I got a part. -- Amy Adams
I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing. -- Ron Fournier
Sometimes Holly could start to see the order in things, she got a glimmer of a pattern. And that thing everyone seems to say these days, about how things always happen for a reason- Holly was getting close to being willing to concede that that was maybe, possibly true." -- Sarah Dunn
Don't get too close, it hurts. -- Graham Kennedy
Do we need distance to get close? -- Sarah Jessica Parker
I am trying to get closer to God. -- Lenny Kravitz
You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead. -- Patricia Clarkson
Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger. -- DMX
It's what I've always wanted to do and each part you play gets you closer and closer to the roles that you dreamed of playing. -- Michael Eklund
I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world. -- Michael Haneke
I get bored talking about myself, but I can talk about the work. -- Glenn Close
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. -- Chuck Close
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble. -- Chuck Close
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from. -- Chuck Close
If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical. -- Eric Close
I was a wild kid in high school. I liked to get crazy and be rebellious and go to parties and do all that kind of stuff. -- Eric Close
You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere. -- Chuck Close
Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work. -- Chuck Close
It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all. -- Glenn Close
You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is. -- Chuck Close
I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings. -- Chuck Close
Close up your head; your brain is getting loose. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door. -- Nora Roberts
I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close. -- Scott Eastwood
At eighty-one, health club-lusting is as close as I'll ever come to getting laid again. -- Patricia McConnell
That was very close to getting killed. Usually at pop festivals we have people jumping on stage. -- Alice Cooper
I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage! -- Moon Unit Zappa
When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise. -- Carla Hall
I don't know any girls who appreciate getting a close-up snap of a guy's privates out of nowhere. -- Holly Carpenter
I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot. -- Gillian Jacobs
A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish. -- Robbie Keane
It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely. -- Jeanne Moreau
Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all the other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer. -- Brett Hull
There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it. -- Dominic Cooper
I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning. -- Bruce Nauman
If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught. -- Tamora Pierce
Divorce is contagious. That's right - when you have a close couple friend split up, it increases your chances of getting a divorce by 75 percent. -- Jenna McCarthy
There was a period where our child's birth was getting really close, and we still had nothing. We were dangerously close to calling him Untitled Baby Project. -- Paul Reiser
I hate summer, to be honest. I hate dressing. I hate the heat. I hate sweaty people getting aggressively close to you when you're walking down the street. -- Johnny Weir
What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals? -- Michael Gerber
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness. -- Robert M. Pirsig
While Donald Trump is showing some strength in places like Iowa, it's just not enough to get him close to getting the electoral votes that he needs to win. -- Bill Burton
Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused. -- Lorrie Moore
Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister. -- Shelby Foote

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