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		Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kathryn Lasky 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Octavio Paz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lady Gaga 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tasha Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Candice Swanepoel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter de La Mare 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel McAdams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Idris Elba 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's nothing funnier than the human animal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walt Disney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Some people start a sport just to reduce weight, or some say, 'My doctor ordered me to run and do exercise', and for others, they run for completely different benefits. But it is not like that with sport. We need to eat, we need to rest, but also we need to run. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Haile Gebrselassie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you can't move the audience, they don't want you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Teddy Pendergrass 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For me, it's all about the Canadian tuxedo, and maybe a bolero. The province I grew up in in Alberta is pretty much the denim capital of Canada. The first premier of Alberta started Grand Western Garment, which Levi's bought later on. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mac DeMarco 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I hyperventilate quite a lot. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Cara Delevingne