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I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.

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• I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
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  • Music

• I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Stupid

• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Truth
  • Bible

• Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Some
  • Harry Potter

• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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  • Culture
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• Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

  

  Nancy Kress
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  • Start
  • Questions

• I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

  

  Nat Wolff
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  • Happy
  • Creative

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Writing
  • Story
  • First

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• God does arithmetic.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
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• I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Driving

• I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Legacy
  • Sport
  • Creatively

• A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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  • Food
  • Famous

• I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Adventure
  • Down
  • Turn

• Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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• A new era of responsibility is here.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
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• There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'

  

  Tabatha Coffey
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  • Work
  • Feeling

• The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

  

  Charles Koch
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  • Money

• When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

  

  Don Drysdale
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• The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.

  

  Jessica Jackley
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• I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.

  

  Megan Nicole
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• I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

  

  Beverly Cleary
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• I will forever stick up for Catholics and Christians in general. With a small number of very horrible exceptions, they do play by the rules.

  

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