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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

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• As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

  

  Ja Rule
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• If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

  

  Fede Alvarez
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• The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• In America, music is more tightly categorized.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
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• Chinese people age overnight.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Age
  • Chinese

• Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Own
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• Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
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• 'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Family
  • House
  • First

• Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Forget
  • Greatest
  • Thieves

• I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Think
  • Want
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• Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • God
  • Money
  • Like

• If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Know
  • Question
  • Questions

• Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Trust

• When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Change

• If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Process

• Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Job
  • Cricket
  • Committee

• I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Love
  • Anger
  • Bitterness

• I might do a work to put me in contact with the god Mercury. If the information I get from that is valuable to me, and new enough, it doesn’t really matter whether the god Mercury is there at all, does it? There is a channel that I have called the god Mercury, some sort of information source I have named.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Work
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• You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.

  

  Don Lemon
  • True
  • Freedom
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• If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reality
  • Thing
  • Expression

• I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

  

  Jean Shepherd

• As an actor, you're not a person; you're a product, a commodity. It's about money. Your job is about making money for other people. At some point, you learn how to be on the other side of that table. You write, direct, produce, and create opportunity for yourself. Then you start to make money for yourself.

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Garden