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The explosion was now officially designated an 'Act of God.'But, thought Dirk, what god? And why?What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?

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• I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

  

  Wayne McGregor
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• It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.

  

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• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

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• I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

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• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

  

  Ted Sarandos
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• A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

  

  Sacha Guitry
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• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.

  

  Abbie Cornish
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• I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
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• Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

  

  Edmund Husserl
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• We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

  

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• If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

  

  Walter Mosley
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• I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

  

  Bruce Feiler
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• You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.

  

  Mother Teresa
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• Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.

  

  Patty Duke
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• I may like L.A., but I want to know when the seasons are.

  

  Gary Coleman
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• You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
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• The explosion was now officially designated an 'Act of God.'But, thought Dirk, what god? And why?What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?

  

  Douglas Adams
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