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It`s my hope that we`re getting into an era where the value of a film is based on its proximity to real life rather than its distance from it. To do that, you need actors - stars, basically - who don`t necessarily look like Ben Affleck.

- Alexander Payne

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.

- John Warner

I`ve written a lot about L.A., and I always describe it as beautiful. To me, human relationships can be sad, can be exhilarating - but it`s not a product of the city. And it takes different forms. Like, in New York, you`re always with people. You can`t go outdoors, you can`t go into the subway, you can`t go anywhere without running into people you don`t know. But in L.A., you really have to work a bit to be exposed. You have to be standing in a shop, you have to join a club, or join a community service thing, or go to a nightclub in order to meet people. Because there`s not the same transitory proximity to other people.

- Steve Martin

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

- Joseph Lieberman

I have been brought up as a stage actor and there is where I feel at home, but I still feel that the cinema has one great advantage over the theater. Namely, proximity to the audience. Of course in a film an actor always has only himself as an audience while on a stage he can achieve a result along with his audience. However, when you stand on a stage, you can never work with your face in the same way as you can in front of a camera.

- Max von Sydow

Ric is trying to put that whole one-night stand behind him, but it keeps coming back. The writers keep putting him in Reese`s proximity.

- Rick Hearst

I think it`s a natural rivalry because of the close proximity of the schools. I`m happy to see that Maryland and Navy are finally playing again.

- Roger Staubach

When you`re on tour you definitely don`t want lots of arguments. It`s very important that everybody gets on because you`re in close proximity a great deal of the time.

- Joan Armatrading

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I`m performing at The Palace Theatre.

- Deborah Cox

I`m hoping to see them in close proximity. I don`t pay as much attention to their times because it changes every course. I look at their body language. Three miles is a long way. They have to be patient.

- Mark Anderson

(The proximity) is as much of it as anything else,

- Mike Collins

But we are thrilled to be where we are now. Our real estate people liked the proximity to the mall.

- John Harvey

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

- Alice McGrew

The proximity is still close, and it`s still a draw from a tourism aspect. And being at the home of one of our league institutions, whatever team from our league and its fans come here will know the lay of the land.

- Anthony Biondo

With our proximity to Kings Bay, the Camden (hospital) is the first medical service so we are frequently involved in drills on the base.

- Barbara Kolsun

The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people`s substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.

- Sun Tzu
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