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		I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dan Hill 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Abraham Verghese 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oleg Cassini 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Victoria Justice 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barry Diller 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tasha Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Walter Ulbricht 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bai Ling 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gavin Newsom 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Edmund Waller 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Captain Beefheart 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				J. M. Coetzee