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I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.

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• As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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  • Friend
  • Mountain

• I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• I just don't think men fancy me.

  

  Gail Porter
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• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
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• There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Way
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• It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Speak
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• Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Respect
  • Myself
  • Gossip

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

  Cao Yu
  • People
  • Society
  • Ideas

• Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Good
  • Great
  • History

• Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?

  

  Garrett Camp
  • People
  • Up
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• The train system in India is chaotic and fun - it's the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you'll never forget.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Fun
  • Best

• The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
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  • Sympathy

• I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.

  

  Vin Scully
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  • Book
  • Alone

• I'm a great jazz fan.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
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• In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.

  

  Saku Koivu
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• Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.

  

  Questlove
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  • World
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• I am a bit of a Valley girl, so I say you know and like too much.

  

  Heather Graham
  • Valley girl

• We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play.

  

  Arto Lindsay
  • World
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• Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Distraction
  • Miseries
  • Consoles

• I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation.

  

  John Wesley
  • World
  • Judge

• We focus on what we do right, we learn from what we did wrong, we move onto the next day that's what prepares us, that's what makes us strong?

  

  Andrew McCutchen
  • Learn
  • Right
  • Wrong

• I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.

  

  Poe Ballantine