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I get very inspired by traveling, by being home in Donegal ... all those wonderful moments I'll take with me to the studio. And they, ah, then become at some stage, a melody. That emotion that I loved at some stage will evolve as a melody.

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• I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
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  • Talent

• My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Life
  • Child
  • Grandmother

• I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Important
  • Small

• Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • True
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• I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• Being a role model is about being true to myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
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• An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
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  • Mom

• I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
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• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

  Bayard Taylor
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• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

  Harry Belafonte
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• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
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• One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

  

  Lance Loud
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• I've always danced. I've always been around it.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
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• It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.

  

  J. D. Vance
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  • Poverty
  • Issues

• I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Future

• My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.

  

  Drew Barrymore
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• I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.

  

  Gary Locke
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  • Seattle

• I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.

  

  Alexis Denisof
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• Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I get very inspired by traveling, by being home in Donegal ... all those wonderful moments I'll take with me to the studio. And they, ah, then become at some stage, a melody. That emotion that I loved at some stage will evolve as a melody.

  

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