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I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.

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• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Good
  • School
  • Help

• I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Guy

• We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Two
  • Snow
  • London

• I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Best
  • Film
  • Difficult

• Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Why
  • Everything
  • Class

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Like
  • One Thing

• Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Why
  • Decision

• I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Runner

• I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • People
  • Think
  • Kind

• I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Difficult
  • More
  • Little

• Once I got to the OTC they knew more about the physical aspects of shooting, and knew which muscles were more important to have trained and geared us a program around that.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Important
  • More
  • Muscles

• Everybody wants to get along with everyone else in the sandbox. I'm that kind of kid, you know what I mean? That will never change about me.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Know
  • Change
  • Kid

• We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

  

  Kate Millett
  • People
  • Women
  • Culture

• Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Worry
  • Thought
  • Step

• I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Believe
  • Lost
  • Stop

• Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Everything
  • Greed
  • Destroys

• Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.

  

  David Baddiel
  • Profound
  • Clever
  • Anatomy

• Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Success
  • Present
  • Car

• I'm the type of guy that feels pressure when I have to order dinner. I'm just that type of guy but that's my fuel. I work well with pressure.

  

  Brad Garrett
  • Work
  • Guy

• I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.

  

  Phil Klay