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		I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you're entering into a world where a tradition has been thoroughly established. So it's repeated use over the years is like, 'Oh God, another film with strings, another spooky movie with strings.'
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Christopher Young 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Natalie Portman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abu Bakar Bashir 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Savage Landor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zadie Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pankaj Mishra 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tavi Gevinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Breaux Greer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A studious person may neglect his business for the sake of books; but if he does this, it is not his books that are to blame, but his want of principle of of firmness. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				George Boole 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				T. V. Carpio 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you're entering into a world where a tradition has been thoroughly established. So it's repeated use over the years is like, 'Oh God, another film with strings, another spooky movie with strings.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Christopher Young