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		When I was younger - I don't do this too much now - but sometimes if I couldn't sleep, I would lie in bed and imagine all the characters I've played at a dinner table together.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jefferson Mays 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				P. J. Harvey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rachel Maddow 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ira Sachs 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Larry Elder 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Harold MacMillan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ed Miliband 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jean-Pierre Raffarin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Mary had a little sheep,
With the sheep she went to sleep.
The sheep turned out to be a ram,
And Mary had a little lamb. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Steven Tyler 
			 
			
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		The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Adolf Hitler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Neil LaBute 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Girls in my profession know a little too much about men. The ones who want to know a woman as a person are fewer than you’d hope, and most of those don’t even realize it about themselves. They don’t care who a woman is, or what she’s scared of, or who she wants to become. They think they want a woman, but what they really want is a flattering looking glass wearing lipstick and telling them what they want to hear. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Elizabeth Bear 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was younger - I don't do this too much now - but sometimes if I couldn't sleep, I would lie in bed and imagine all the characters I've played at a dinner table together. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jefferson Mays