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• I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Green
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • People
  • Party
  • Serious

• Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Want
  • Die
  • Sun

• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Start

• They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Me
  • Lost
  • Paris

• Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Experience
  • War
  • Piece

• Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Business
  • Calm
  • Too Late

• I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Way
  • Person
  • Option

• It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It's exhausting. You have to force-feed. You have to force yourself to eat food.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Food
  • Yourself

• Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Work
  • Worry
  • Frustration

• I hate the word sexy.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Hate
  • Sexy
  • Word

• There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Movie
  • Wise
  • Everything

• I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Live
  • Drama
  • Enthusiasm

• The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Man
  • Listening
  • Period

• I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Doing

• I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Watching

• 'H–hup!' said Roo accidentally. 'Roo, dear!' said Kanga reproachfully. 'Was it me?' asked Roo, a little surprised.

  

  A. A. Milne

• But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.

  

  Joshua Chamberlain
  • Power
  • Thought
  • Fought

• The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Focus
  • Failing

• I did a radio interview for a station in Connecticut or something, and it was the worst interview ever. It was all yes and no answers.

  

  Macaulay Culkin

• Unless you're really interested in sleaze, you should not buy 'Newsweek.'

  

  Liz Trotta

• For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

  

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