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If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I

can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go. Gordie Howe I'm very unphysical and graceless so basically if you save 10 people to be with you in a resistance movement, you would never save me. I'd be the last one. Connor Jessup I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide. Larry David I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. Jack Steinberger My goal was never to sell many records. Chuck Mangione I love to pitch so much. David Cone The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings. Martin Bashir Actors were the first people to accept me. Michael Lindsay-Hogg Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone. Victor Hugo Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod. Kelly Clarkson

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting

his father's coffin. Michael Beschloss The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden. Richard Neal The director had come to Madrid to court me. Victoria Abril There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers. Tim Robbins I try to eat healthy. Nina Dobrev I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire. Stephen Gaghan I really enjoy just hanging out at my house since I never get to be there. Jennifer Nettles I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go. Emmanuel Lewis I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is. Jamie Lee Curtis I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals. Sargent Shriver

I'm just trying to keep my mind and my body active. The tough part about

it is that physically I'm sort of limited. Terrell Davis I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables. A. S. Byatt For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide. Christopher Nolan Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. David Duchovny In moments of pain, we seek revenge. Ami Ayalon None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet. Torquato Tasso I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop. Anita Diament My career at Microsoft really was getting in the wa...

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make

me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work. Kim Novak If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy. Sheryl WuDunn So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities. Stokely Carmichael I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature. Adolf Hitler A teacher is a person who never says anything once. Howard Nemerov I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read. Jonathan Carroll The journey has been incredible from its beginning. Sidney Poitier I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear. Calvin Klein I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good. Chevy Chase I...

The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale,

whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military. Warren Rudman I feel like Canadian movies should be as good or better than the competition because of the talent we have here. Someone like Ryan Gosling shouldn't have to come back here because it's a Canadian movie. He should want to come back because some of the best movies are being made here. Kevin Zegers Drug smugglers often use juveniles to carry their shipments into the U.S. because they know the juveniles will not be prosecuted if caught. Timothy Murphy If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it. Albert Brooks Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God. Edwin Louis Cole Editing is kind of a solitary job. Joe Dante In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot. David Ogden Stiers I still don't know much about directin...

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as

a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene. James Wolcott Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. Neil Gaiman On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. Michael Cunningham My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it. Boris Johnson Style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live. Lilly Pulitzer Center is a very tough position to play. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women. Pedro Almodovar He who talks more is sooner exhausted. Lao Tzu My mother answers all my fan mail. Patti Smith I think it's wrong t...

I know at one point I had bright red hair and I had bracelets from

my wrist up to my elbow and I was wearing size 50 pants. I wouldn't wear that today, but I'm not embarrassed about wearing it back then any more. Mike Shinoda It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake. Bille August I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be. Janelle Monae Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security. Jeff Miller One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week! Zendaya Everybody looks at his clothes to see what he's wearing. Tim Hardaway I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore. Billy Corgan What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head? Francis Collins America was not ...

The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the

same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together. Robert M. Gates The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. Honore de Balzac Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy. Ali Smith I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent. Victoria Principal I've always ignored the labels people put on things. Carlos Ruiz Zafon The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull. Kevyn Aucoin To hell with facts! We need stories! Ken Kesey My first book was the book that changed my life. Stephen Ambrose There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music. J. Tillman A new era of responsibility is here. Valerie Jarrett

I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as

actors quite often are when they first see something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself. John Schlesinger I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living. Georg Buchner I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself. Carrot Top I'm not ready for another series. I have fun doing other kinds of things. Robert Urich No one has the last word other than God. Rob Bell My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.' Dane Cook I don't really believe in the auteur theory. Park Chan-wook It should never be a crime to be gay. Hillary Clinton Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved. Henry Mayhew I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. Andrea Arnold

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it

was something very personal to me. Enya I don't do earrings. Kimberly Caldwell London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white? Jourdan Dunn I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really. David Hockney I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick. Kate Winslet Each audience is different. Prince People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. Lucinda Williams My mission has always been to do something that suits everybody. Raphael Saadiq My family and I built my whole career from scratch. Maria Sharapova A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation. John Morley

I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and

my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that. Ryne Sandberg Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. Maxwell Maltz There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can. Alonzo Mourning Contraception doesn't define a woman. Nikki Haley Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day. Cameron Russell I do enjoy reading some science fiction. Colin Farrell Well, actually I don't care what surface I'm playing on. Daniela Hantuchova I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack. will.i.am They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live. James Herriot I have an A rating from the NRA. Ronnie Musgrove

'Skins' wanted to create a new thing by actually casting real teenagers. I think it

was very brave of them. They also wanted to give the opportunity to people who didn't go to drama school. Kaya Scodelario I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing. Vladimir Kramnik First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil. Sherwood Boehlert I've played too many tennis hours. Lindsay Davenport I'm a tech geek. Henry Louis Gates In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me. Davy Jones Without justice you won't have stability. Saad Hariri I think people should be able to do what they want to do. Jonathan Davis Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain. Shane Black Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off. Stefan Edberg

I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people,

or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs? Rand Paul Which would you rather have, capital lined up on your borders, trying to get into your country or trying to get out of your country? We are the capital magnet of this planet and we are the savior for not only people, for not only freedom, but also for capital. Arthur Laffer I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with me. Dianna Agron Do I take care of my body and take conditioning seriously? Yes. Jake Gyllenhaal Conquered people tend to be witty. Saul Bellow I'll do any kind of movie, as long as it's a good version of it. Mark Duplass Money? I lost all taste for it. Taylor Caldwell People use irony as a defense mechanism. David Byrne Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness. Anthea Turner You jus...

Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign

and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe. Robert E. Howard Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward. Michael D. Higgins As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed. B. Carroll Reece I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York. Sami Gayle I'm chairman of the Republican Governors Association. Bob McDonnell I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke. Michael Ignatieff All my films are all my children. Hayao Miyazaki Money has to serve, not to...

If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then

the consumer's not going to take notice. Alexander Wang So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player. Geddy Lee What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control. Paul Ryan The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat. Guy Lafleur And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse. May Sinclair Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals? Mason Cooley Everybody relates to having a dream. Jennifer Aniston We stitch together our days and edit out our nights. Julia Leigh If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off. Bruce Dickinson I've always shot on film, but the times are changing. Richard LaGravenese

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The most important thing in imaging for me is the dynamic range. The dynamic range

means the tones that you can capture from highlights to dark and the bits, the depth of color that you can capture. Emmanuel Lubezki The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart. Joel Salatin If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things. Ben Wheatley We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them. Peter Benchley It's true, I used to be so shy. I used to never talk, just sit back and do my thing. I was never bullied, though, and it was never like it was something that needed to be 'fixed', like being shy is a bad thing. Kendall Jenner One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art. Michael Arndt 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John L...

In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field,

one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. Richard P. Feynman Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal. Bill Dedman As a restaurateur, my palate is one of my most important tools. Joe Bastianich A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. David A. Bednar I don't have any other skills. Some artists say that to mean that their embodied passion for art gave them no choice. I say it, very specifically, to say that I really didn't have any other options. Rashid Johnson Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first. Warren Ellis I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little w...

I'm the kind of person who likes to hang out and observe what's going on

in the streets, or in certain places. I used to do that a lot. But having to become an international superstar, I can't do that comfortably! But it's all positive, you know. Jimmy Cliff Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good. Pope Benedict XVI I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman. Alice Waters The only biography I read was about Al Bell, of Stax Records. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Al Bell. Juicy J I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous....

I absolutely love 'Four In A Bed.' Before I started filming, and I was unemployed,

it was the focus of my day. Four B&B owners go to each other's B&Bs, have a meal and stay over, and then pay what they think the room was worth. At the end of the week, they sit down together and open each other's envelopes, and they all start rowing. Kimberley Nixon I realised that if I wished to write about the dark and not allow for hope, people would recognise it as false - because hope is the nub of what we are. Richard Flanagan When you have so many things, and you have no idea why, you think, 'Maybe I'm supposed to do things for other people.' Nikki Sixx My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me. Aerin Lauder We have people in our lives who help us evolve along the way. If you're lucky, you find someone who evolves along with you, and that's what you call a long-term relationship. Richard LaGravenese Carl Icahn, corporate raider by trade, is creativ...

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors,

agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity. Terry Waite I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. Robert Louis Stevenson The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. Charles Baudelaire The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. George Santayana I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed. Lionel Barrymore She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one. Peter Bergman

Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its

sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you. Salman Rushdie I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young. Dan Byrd The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph. Stephen Hawking It's all about having fun and shooting something that you like. Where it goes afterwards is up to the movie gods. Devon Bostick I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. Lydia Davis I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway. Taylor Swift Those scenes on the beach on 'Lost' were so much fun. ...

To be honest, there are so many things I learned in acting school beyond the

method; it was a safe place to practice. So acting school was about exercising that acting muscle and doing it every single day - and having people tell you that you're bad every single day! Which pushes you to work even harder. Jane Levy I gave up writing for seven years (very biblical) and picked it up again, still clueless and still seeking the exotic, when I was twenty-one. David Bergen I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups. Rafael Nadal Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised. Ameen Rihani Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That's what I wanted to prove. Willie Nelson I was never in the bu...

I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of

a career that both delight me and seem to please the public. Michael Palin I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like. Bat for Lashes We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally. Joyce Carol Oates I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars. Amanda Lindhout Women's sport is genuine, it's pure and it's raw... we don't do it for the money. Jessica Fox I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more. Nolan Gould We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and relig...

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that

confidence that you are the best out there at all times. Keyshawn Johnson For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you. Halsey I was offered the opportunity to narrate the Catholic bible, and it was something I really wanted to be involved with. John Rhys-Davies If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound. Mohamed El-Erian Offset and Skillfeed are examples of products launched in 2013 that have expanded our opportunity with both large enterprises and across new content types. Jon Oringer Most music careers slowly but surely go down. Malik Bendjelloul Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling away at the keyboard just like every other writer. Jeaniene F...

I'm not from that world where you get on your feet and somebody gives you

a suggestion and you improv your way through things. Kevin Dunn Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype. Alice McDermott Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house. Denis Leary Error is part of the game. I never, ever second-guessed myself on a call and don't believe good umpires ever should. Doug Harvey Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading. Matt Mullenweg The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to. Marianne Williamson I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world. David Sanborn Tons of comedians have said, ...