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• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Doctor

• Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Free
  • Wish
  • Crazy

• I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Imagination
  • Own
  • Capitalism

• Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Where
  • Manager
  • My Own

• We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Nation
  • Dictatorship

• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Rather

• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

  Fleur East
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Day

• It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Think
  • Unique
  • Snowflake

• What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • America
  • Best
  • Failure

• There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Colour

• I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Reflection

• The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Violence
  • Inspiration
  • Respond

• Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Great
  • Around
  • Table

• The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Thought

• To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Sports
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• I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same stage, and that was a wonderful experience.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Experience
  • Girl
  • Lost

• Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believe
  • Matter
  • Sacred

• I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Strong
  • Myself
  • Green

• We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • World
  • Live
  • Nature

• I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Character
  • Father
  • Growing

• I was treated better than others, simply because there was so much public attention. In my case, they did adhere to the eight-hour workday required by law. The other women were often forced to slave away for up to 16 hours a day.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Up
  • Women
  • Law

• I'm a bit of a tomboy.

  

  Margot Robbie

• What we are seeing here is environmental injustice.

  

  Mike Farrell
  • Environmental
  • Here
  • Seeing

• There was constant talk about hewing things and ravaging things and splitting things asunder. Lots of big talk of things being mighty, and of things being riven, and of things being in thrall to other things, but very little attention given, as I now realise, to the laundry.

  

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