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		Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Brian Aldiss 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Gilbert 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Finn Wittrock 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zbigniew Brzezinski 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				R. Kelly 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Grant 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Walsh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Talulah Riley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vince Gill 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Warren Spector 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won't be taken for a ride. And I'm confident about my movies. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kajal Aggarwal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harpo Marx 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Becky G