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		I was riding dirt bikes when I was a little kid. I got my first Harley Davidson when I was 17 years old. It was a frame with wheels and a tank on it and all the parts in a box.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				David Labrava 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nate Berkus 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Calvin Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barton Gellman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carlene Carter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Stevens 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Beck 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ze Frank 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
				Gail Devers 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm naturally a nice person. I'm not trying to have any problems with people. I'm done with the drama and trouble. I want a stress-free life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Action Bronson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My hair was long with a fringe, and people would make jokes, calling me Britney and Lady Gaga. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yolandi Visser 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I knew, always, what I wanted to be. Even before I had my first computer, I wanted to be a computer scientist. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary William Flake 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I just want to compete and do what I love. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Takeru Kobayashi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				E. T. A. Hoffmann 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad - and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Randall Jarrell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think musicians here India get ripped off. Music production houses take good care of artists abroad and though the upfront signing amount is much less than what I get here, the royalty takes care of future returns. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				A. R. Rahman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every body is a book of blood;Wherever we're opened, we're red. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Clive Barker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kali Uchis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In terms of going back and forth between fiction and nonfiction - in which I'll include memoir, biography, and true crime - is that one relieves the other. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kathryn Harrison