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Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.

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• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
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• I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.

  

  Baba Kalyani
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• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
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• I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

  

  Idris Elba
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• I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

  

  Lake Bell
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• I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

  

  Calvin Harris
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• I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• Decisions are made by those who show up.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

  

  Edie Falco
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• When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I'm like, 'Oh my gosh!! Okay, wait. He's supposed to be, like, my friend. I'm supposed to be cool.'

  

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• I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

  

  Obie Trice
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• I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.

  

  Zach Gilford
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• As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

  

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• I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

  

  Angela Kinsey
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• It's a real gift to work with my sister. We obviously have such a shorthand communicating with each other that it makes the process easier. And from growing up together and watching so many films together, we ended up with pretty similar taste.

  

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• There is no one who is present all the time, but you work on becoming present when you are interacting with people who are working for you, being able to hear them without a sense of threat, to go into those meetings with confidence and not arrogance.

  

  Amy Cuddy
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• And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

  

  John B. S. Haldane
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• I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'

  

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• Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.

  

  Jemaine Clement
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