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		Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ellen Barkin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				A. S. Byatt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barton Gellman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Valerie Plame 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Cooney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Felipe VI of Spain 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oscar Pistorius 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I can only control what I can control. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ira Glass 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed Royce 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Quiara Alegria Hudes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick Ewing 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ozzy Osbourne 
			 
			
				Black Sabbath  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barack Obama 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Yorkshire weather can turn quickly. At one Auld Lang Syne race, it dropped to -16C. The frost turned everybody's hair grey. I couldn't take my shoes off, as my laces had frozen solid. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jonathan Brownlee 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabrielle Zevin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pat Morita 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't come from a privileged background. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bernadine Dohrn 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ellen Barkin