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I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

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• I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

  

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• Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

  

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• I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.

  

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• I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.

  

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• I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

  

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• You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

  

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• We have to change the way people look at scientists. Today, they are the nerds, the geeks. Instead, we want some of the cool kids to say, 'Hey, this is all right.'

  

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• They will always assume that this guy - an upcoming actor, what if he becomes a star tomorrow? He would not work with me then... so I might as well choose to be nice. But women are not treated with the same attitude. Women they treat really badly.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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• Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

  

  Samuel Alexander
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• My dad took me to see James Brown live, and that's so cool, cause I don't think many people my age can say they saw James Brown. I'm pretty proud of that. That's the thing about me that no one really knows. I had to have been 6 or 7, but I remember it vividly.

  

  Maika Monroe
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• These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

  

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• Self-parody is the first portent of age.

  

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• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed.

  

  Uri Geller
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• For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.

  

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• Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

  

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• I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that 'the world' would decline to recognize them.

  

  Colin Wilson
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• 'Besides-we all know guns don’t kill people,do they?''No, it’s the small metal projectiles that generally do the killing,' Cahuella said, smiling.

  

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• When 'Sex and the City' aired its first season, people didn't know about HBO as a place for original series. People weren't saying, 'Oh I've got to watch 'Sex and the City'!' They found it later. In some ways, it helped change what people thought of HBO.

  

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• It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

  

  Sigmund Freud
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• Wealth creation is not a business suited to those whose skill set consists of voting “present.” It requires decision making, risk taking, hard information, discipline, insight, and intelligence.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
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• I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

  

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• I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

  

  Matthew Bourne