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Many of my works fall into the category of 'Zeitgeist novels'. Yet

I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future. Will Self It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one. Alan Rudolph From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult. Darby Stanchfield My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants. Martin Lewis Perl All of my characters have a glint of madness. Nicolas Cage Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content. Mason Cooley I'm just a simple country girl. Dolly Parton My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. Ben Harper No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud. Bernard Ebbers I like writing historical fiction. Philippa Gregory
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I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then

I met up with the wrong people. I ended up getting in a hassle. I had to call the police and get myself arrested or get attacked, ripped off and got to jail. So I called the cops on them and myself. Marc Wallice I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me. Elizabeth Gilbert I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points. David Nevins Do all you can to make your dreams come true. Joel Osteen I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it. Steve Zahn Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. Georges Braque Stay small and control it yourself. Bruce Oldfield I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know? Bobb...
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Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck

for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school. Marilyn vos Savant I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you. Ayelet Waldman KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask. Carlos Santana Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them. Craig Charles I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing. Nora Dunn My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world. Carrie Underwood We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment. Sumner Redstone For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. David Mitchell What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas,...
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I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from

the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way. Anne Rice I was always handsome under all the fat. Robert Iler But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. James Weldon Johnson I'm a human being before anything else. Freida Pinto You don't make solo albums to have hits. Ron Wood We are all naturally xenophobic. Jim Harrison How can you stop writing? Tony Hillerman Love is not in our choice but in our fate. John Dryden Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there. Woody Allen I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one. David LaChapelle
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What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres,

as well as creating its own message. Theo James To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America. Peter Munk My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me. Venus Williams I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies. Toyo Ito When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent. George Henry Lewes I like to stay in the moment. Shaun White It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry. ASAP Rocky The fact is that war films, by their very nature, are pitched at a high dramatic range. Mark Boal Do noble things, not dream them all day long. Charles Kingsl...
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Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny

thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school. Jordin Sparks Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists. Otto Schily I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language. Patti Stanger Usually I spend my holidays with my family. Mike Shinoda I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.' Billy Boyd Working with special needs children is hard. Laura Linney I pitched and I played the outfield. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at. Dan O'Brien I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars. Robert Herjavec Folks, this is perf...
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The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the

Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore. Tim Cahill You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you. Oscar De La Hoya I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost. Joe Perry The word 'no' is a very good word in a singer's repertoire. Kiri Te Kanawa The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces. Howard Staunton Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan. Jack Black I like being misunderstood. Lil Wayne Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability. Jose Manuel Barroso What you had at the time was a dictatorship with ...
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As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult

to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms. Ben Horowitz We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies. Marc Andreessen I had studied violin from age 7 to 14. Amar Bose The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do. Sandra Bullock I don't think I'm particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative. Rhona Mitra I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others. Nile Rodgers I really like children to watch my movies. Jackie Chan I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it. Stefan Edberg America does not like people being not nice to dogs. Rob James-Collier I feel like every project I've ever done has had music involved in it somehow. Ashley Tisdale
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When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust

you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves. Preston Manning You know in 1982, the year we came in tied for 3rd, we probably had a better team - I mean as far as talent. When we came back the following year and won it, our pitching staff was a little more experienced and it was such a thrill. Roger Clemens All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater. Jesse Tyler Ferguson We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet. Krist Novoselic I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done. Mick Jagger I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it. Mariano Rivera There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge. Yehuda Amichai People always seem to see echoes of their ow...
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Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like

something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising. Tom Bodett Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic. Andy Dick I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually. Carly Rae Jepsen Nothing outside of my child is important. Sarah McLachlan I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything. Elizabeth I I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing. Julie Bowen Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. Carrie Fisher I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear. Bibhu Mohapatra...
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The vast majority of debt that Anglo maintains is owed is strenuously disputed. However, I

cannot now pay those loans which are due, following Anglo taking control of the Quinn Group of companies, which I and a loyal team spent a lifetime building. Sean Quinn For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. George Eliot I'm forming a charitable institution for education. Amar Bose I'm happy with what I've achieved. Sofia Vergara I feel very fortunate that I played for the four organizations I did. Nolan Ryan I got everybody on my side through comedy. Ruth Buzzi I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses. Willard Scott All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that. Tiger Woods Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time. Elaine Stritch Prom was awesome. I had such a great time at prom. AnnaSophia Robb
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Urban Outfitters - I love it. It's almost like Forever 21, but for, like, the

24- to 25-year-old girl, getting a little bit older. Keke Palmer I'm the kind of person that believes that I would like to be evaluated by my entire career and my entire life, not two words that I would misspeak and then later apologize for. Kirk Cameron I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. Leonard Susskind Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time. Joshua Roman Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources. Craig Venter Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introdu...
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In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be

to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit. Robert Zemeckis There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college. Jill Scott I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please. Jane Fonda For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American. Nora Roberts Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I...
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For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Rick

James T-shirts. We don't have any icons or idols to look up to, just rappers and professional athletes. Lamar Odom As I was writing, I realised I wasn't sufficiently extrovert to gather enough interesting souls with tall tales around me. I was no Louis Theroux. But neither was I interested in exploring my inner life in public, in the manner of a Jonathan Raban. Clive Sinclair I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering. John le Carre I want to be a chef, but I'm only a fat girl chef; like, I only like to make fat comfort food. I'm not, like, a healthy chef person. Khloe Kardashian At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that. Bono What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kin...
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First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant

about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong. Steven Van Zandt The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. David Leavitt If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes. Victoria Justice Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and m...
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My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a

fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood. Beth Ditto We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear. Elias Hicks We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art. Charlie Sheen There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. Jonathan Safran Foer I'm sort of an old man, a...
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In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking

at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one. Matt Mullenweg At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise. Jim Goetz I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture. Claire Denis I don't feel a real need to specify the meaning of something. When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music. Kyp Malone St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of w...
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It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your

kid to war - your daughter or your son. Tim O'Brien When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do. Warren Littlefield I did this film with Russell Crowe called 'The Water Diviner,' which took place just after WWI. It was fascinating because the weapons between WWI and WII were very different. I had to learn how to ride horses in a battle setting. It was important that we rode a certain way. Jai Courtney My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener. Curtis Mayfield I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortabl...
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If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must

even now be engraved in the atomic weights. Theodore William Richards I can watch an episode of Jerry Seinfeld, and by the end, I'm just walking around my house, you know, talking like Jerry Seinfeld. 'What is that? What are you doing? Who is it? What's going' - you know, I just had that thing, when I grew up, I'd just start talking like people. You know, I always had that. Jimmy Fallon One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them. Carla Hall This is what I believe about performing: There is no reason to be on stage - there is no reason to be there - if you're not going to put all your baggage somewhere else and just be honest. Whatever you're doing - screw it up, do great - just be there, and be honest. That's the most importa...
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The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations,

through technical assistance and support from the developed countries. Anna Lindh There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago. Robert Redford As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me. Marion Cotillard If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: 'fair,' leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life. Charles Krauthammer I'm not sure I have a natural gift. I think it's just that some people have an easier time expressing their emotions, maybe because of the way they've been raised, and I've always bee...
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I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and

more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead! Gloria Estefan Zynga is about fun. Fun is important. Fun is good. And to have the ability to do something fun for 10 or 15 minutes that's right at your fingertips and involves your friends, well, that's better than television in terms of social connectivity. Reid Hoffman We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can create great user experiences and that it's possible to have a successful commercial entity and a wider free software community living and working in harmony. Matt Mullenweg The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program tries to find a similar problem in its database by finding analogous aspects between the problem...
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