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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.
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Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.
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I'm the culinary and creative consultant for The Water Club.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.