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The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

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• It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • People
  • World
  • Action

• I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.

  

  Iman
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• One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • America
  • Want

• I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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• Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • You
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• To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
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• I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

  

  Rachel Cohn
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• Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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  • Colors

• I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
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  • Research

• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Look

• The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

  

  Sam Elliott
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  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
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• I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Art
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  • Respect

• When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
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• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
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• When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

  

  Edouard Manet
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  • Feeling
  • Imagination

• I was going to college to be a doctor.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• Because it was one of my favorites from the Arthurian legend, one of the things that I really enjoyed doing was the legend of the crystal cave. In my head, it was fun to imagine what it was going to look like because there was a lot of CGI involved, in seeing visions of the future reflected within crystals.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • Fun
  • Future
  • Legend

• There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

  

  Abigail Johnson
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• My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

  

  Lianne La Havas
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• If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good.

  

  Dave Foley
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  • Good
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• In terms of graphic versus prose, I could probably do a lecture on that topic. But what stood out most was the difference in pacing the language and resulting scenes. One illustration can do so much for the reader.

  

  Cynthia Leitich Smith

• The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

  

  David Novak
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