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		I was never a boy. I always was a girl in my heart, and although I was presented as a boy to the public, inside I was feminine. It was OK to be that because that's just who I was, and I can't change that. I was born that way.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jazz Jennings 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carlo Ponti 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Felicity Jones 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bebe Rexha 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Antonoff 
			 
			
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		The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wallace Stevens 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Saint Augustine 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. Lee Thompson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Savage 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ulysses S. Grant 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ingrid Newkirk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. Bruce Cameron 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rafael Palmeiro 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		When you think that you are done you're only 40% in to what your body's capable of doing.that's just the limits that we put on ourselves. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				David Goggins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taraji P. Henson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed to lose my American accent and learn the Queen's English, so I had to enunciate my vowels and speak well and eloquently. Giving up a New York accent is pretty hard. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Priyanka Chopra 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Christopher Walken 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was never a boy. I always was a girl in my heart, and although I was presented as a boy to the public, inside I was feminine. It was OK to be that because that's just who I was, and I can't change that. I was born that way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jazz Jennings