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• Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Why
  • History

• Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • You
  • Mean
  • Singing

• I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Believe
  • Career
  • Path

• I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Afraid

• We're all idealistic when young.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Young
  • Idealistic

• Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Better

• I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Love
  • Fun
  • House

• We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Great
  • Love
  • Reading

• Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Best
  • Always
  • Person

• There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Hope

• I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Write
  • Characters
  • Fingers

• I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Funny
  • Cool
  • Like

• I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Friends
  • Audience
  • Group

• I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Hate
  • Shopping
  • Run

• When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Child

• I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • World
  • Country
  • She

• I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. I decided to take a little time to enjoy life. I traveled, built my dream house, rescued a few dogs. My return to music, and acting, was deliberate, part of my musical arc.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I don't really want to repeat myself. For the most part, I always want to be doing something new. But there aren't a lot of gritty roles out there for women, and they are so fun to play, everyone wants them.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Myself

• I do believe that children are all blessings from god. And I feel it's all positive, it's positive experience. You know, I don't like to dwell on any of the negative. And - a lot of people do.

  

  Nadya Suleman
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• ...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Voice
  • Swearing

• We're living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Time
  • World
  • Nationalistic

• I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news journalist by background, so I approach everything as reporting - I treat it as real, I ask the questions I'd ask in a real situation, and I let the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Speak

• I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Time
  • Hope
  • House

• Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

  

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