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		A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Martin O'Malley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Orhan Pamuk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lascelles Abercrombie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nancy Astor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Val McDermid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Eduard Hanslick 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Said Nursi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bear Grylls 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Abbas Kiarostami 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				E. B. White 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think the last game console I had was Super Nintendo. I remember once I played the Sega Genesis. But Super Nintendo was my last game device. I played outside more. I liked kickball and baseball. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Natalie Martinez 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tatiana Maslany 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Talulah Riley