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		Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Darren Aronofsky 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Walter Scott 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Garrison Keillor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oliver North 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				L. Sprague de Camp 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Orison Swett Marden 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Yotam Ottolenghi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Park Geun-hye 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gabby Douglas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Natasha Lyonne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Utada Hikaru 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Wale 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		After reading and studying and getting in touch with the amount of information that I had while I was researching to play Pablo, it just reinforced the idea that I had that the war on drugs is a big flop. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Wagner Moura