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I love my paper and ink, but I see the benefits of the iPad and Apple Pencil.

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• My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Breakfast
  • Fish
  • Lunch

• Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Time
  • Important
  • Pretty

• I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • American
  • Audiences
  • Asian

• We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Work
  • Air

• The retired L.A.P.D. motor cops who work set security now, all wear the same uniform, they're great guys with great stories, and they're great at their job, providing security on sets.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Work
  • Great
  • Job

• Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Country
  • Me
  • Liberty

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Life
  • Death
  • Struggle

• My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Book
  • History
  • Man

• Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Name
  • Absolute
  • Residence

• Christina Stead has a Chinese say, 'Our old age is perhaps life’s decision about us'-or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Age
  • Decision

• I love seeing Lady Gaga’s boobs and bum. I love seeing Katy Perry’s boobs and bum. Love it. But that’s not what my music is about. I don’t make music for eyes, I make music for ears.

  

  Adele
  • Music
  • Eyes

• Proof must be solid break walls of facts.

  

  Agatha Christie

• It is in his pleasures that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

  

  Agnes Repplier
  • True

• Miriam: Look, don't fixate on the due date. It's just an approximation. Only 5 percent of babies actually arrive on it. Most come later, in fact.Clarice: Great! How much later? Two days? Three?Miriam: Let me give you a friendly tip, Clarice. Don't get too hung up on keeping a tight schedule for the next, say, eighteen years or so.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Up
  • Great

• For me, I look at a pilot and go, 'I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential of the story.' And I also go, 'That didn't work. I could change that. Maybe that works. I don't know. We'll see.' For me, I look at it, as an actor, as what can I improve upon?

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Work

• A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Reading

• Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Dictate

• When people say 'Charlie Chaplin' I still think now of the guy in the moustache and bowler hat and funny walk - I don't think of an old man who was my grandfather.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • Guy
  • Man

• I can be incredibly focused, and I can appear impatient. So I've learned to slow down, get to know people, and provide more context. There's nothing wrong with getting to the point pretty quickly, but it's also helpful to give people an opportunity to talk about their work.

  

  Lynn Good
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Human
  • Trouble
  • Characters

• I love my paper and ink, but I see the benefits of the iPad and Apple Pencil.

  

  Om Malik