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For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.

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• Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Men
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  • Food

• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
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  • Nobody

• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Real
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  • Difficult

• Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Everything
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• The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.

  

  Maggie Rowe
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• 'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Character
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• Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Beautiful
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• I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
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• A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

  

  Edith Hamilton
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• Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

  

  Dan Savage
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• Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
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• During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Want
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• I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

  

  Earl Browder
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• If you're on a budget, Sweetgreen is a new chain of salad bars that are very good but inexpensive. You choose from a menu or customise your own, with some protein, a healthy salad and a great dressing.

  

  Daniel Boulud
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• I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

  

  Adam Driver
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• I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• I like doing things that people wouldn't necessarily think I can do.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • People

• Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Personality
  • Better
  • Boring

• That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  • Men
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• I'm the kind of boy that can fall in love with any girl because I love with the heart, not the eyes.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
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• Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Reality
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• For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.

  

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