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		I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maeve Binchy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tananarive Due 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kaitlyn Dever 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ina Garten 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ingmar Bergman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Isaac Hayes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Camila Alves 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. J. Harvey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hamdi Ulukaya 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zygmunt Bauman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Orhan Pamuk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mackenzie Davis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash punitive regulations, create millions of jobs, and develop our most strategic geopolitical weapon: crude oil. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harold Hamm 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I love people who dress how they feel and change it depending on the day. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Becky G 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Irvine Welsh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zaha Hadid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gautam Gambhir 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Danica Patrick 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sadie Frost 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. J. O'Rourke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paul Washer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				China Machado 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could, to see what a person she is. She's so sweet and no bull and really funny, man, really funny. The Rolling Stones are like a weight around your neck. All that..'you're not meant to rock after you're 30...you've got to die in a car crash or of a drug overdose. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Michael Hutchence 
			 
			
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		I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maeve Binchy