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		All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Chester Bennington 
			 
			
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		I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vince Lombardi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		We're not anti-Olympics, we're anti-disruption to the season. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gary Bettman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril Lavigne! But I got annoyed with having to plug it in and play with amps and pedals and stuff. Then I got given a cheap acoustic, a Tanglewood, and I thought it was awesome because I could play it anywhere! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gabrielle Aplin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I started writing songs at age 15. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vince Clarke 
			 
			
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		There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Samuel Beckett 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen persona. Here is Robert, known for his portrayal of many characters, including gangsters. But in real life, he is elegant and erudite. He sits in the garden reading the sonnets of William Shakespeare. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				John Milton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Don't be lulled into complacency. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Alan Gerry 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I did a TV show called 'Unit 1.' It wasn't a bad experience, but yes, the first season I didn't have a good time because I was coming from Nicolas Winding Refn films where the corners were sharp and radical, but now we had round corners. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mads Mikkelsen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to me. And horrifying to me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				George C. Wolfe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Chester Bennington 
			 
			
				Stone Temple Pilots