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		Anything that I'm passionate about and surprises me usually ends up turning into a joke simply because I have questions about it and I'm curious and I want to talk about it.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Katherine Ryan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vaughn Monroe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Felicity Jones 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel McAdams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gail Sheehy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Flavor Flav 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Magda Apanowicz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Octavia Spencer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				E. L. Konigsburg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Uday Kotak 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lao Tzu 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zygmunt Bauman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harlan Coben 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Iris DeMent 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bailey Chase 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				H. G. Wells 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Beckinsale 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Padma Lakshmi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Daniel H. Pink 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If I were to write a sequel to 'Lean In' for men, I would call it 'Make Room.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nell Scovell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				T. S. Eliot 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charles Baudelaire 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Kress 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Anything that I'm passionate about and surprises me usually ends up turning into a joke simply because I have questions about it and I'm curious and I want to talk about it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Katherine Ryan