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" After I tasted success with erotic thrillers, a time came when I was being offered only films belonging to that genre. The industry loves repeating a success formula, and the audience had formed a certain image of mine in their minds. "

" Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging. "

" Americans generally regard themselves as belonging to an exceptional nation. And in terms of living in a religiously tolerant and enormously diverse country, Americans can certainly take some justified pride. "

Peter L. Bergen

" A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater. "

" An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me. "

Samuel Alexander

" As a civilian not playing sport, to get that sense of real belonging and feeling how you are progressing through the day is what I loved and miss. "

" At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house. "

" Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty. "

" Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind. "

" Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are. "

" Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone. "

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

" Christiania has a lot of strong, nuclear families. It gave us a sense of empowerment and belonging and richness. We had so much love; we were never in doubt that we were wanted in this world. "

Lukas Forchhammer

" Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another. "

" Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the tribe is defined by opposition to other tribes. Our tribe, and its traditional ways, is superior to other tribes because it is ours. "

" Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial. "

" Films are a whole new world that I'm excited to explore. But being on stage is very close to my heart; it has given me a sense of belonging. I will always try to find a way to balance both. "

" For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life. "

" He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate. "

Margaret Truman

" How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging? "

Alexander the Great

" Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging. "

Alexander Theroux

" I found my place when I moved to London, where I chose to live, making my own tribe who were all from different backgrounds and places. The class thing is very dominant there, but in the cultural cross-fertilization, I felt a sense of belonging. "

" If some student belonging to weaker section of society suffers distress, humanity says it must be addressed. "

" I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture. "

J. M. G. Le Clezio

" I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider. "

Chirlane McCray

" I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population. "

" I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African. "

" I miss the sense of belonging on a film as much as I did on 'Call Me By Your Name.' "

Timothee Chalamet

" In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian. "

" In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging. "

" I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special. "

Michael C. Hall

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