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		Great stories and acting always win the day. If the story behind the scares is dramatic and the filmmaking is great, it works. If those things aren't great and the scares are secondary, it doesn't.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jason Blum 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harlan Coben 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taylour Paige 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Cartwright 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Caitlyn Jenner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Venus Williams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Castellaneta 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. J. O'Rourke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				B. D. Wong 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Ant 
			 
			
				Adam and the Ants  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Saint Ambrose 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				M. H. Abrams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Houston