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Nobody's impressed back home. All my friends were going, 'Oh right, so you're doing a play up in Leeds? Another depressing one is it? Do you mind if we don't bother coming?' I love that.

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
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• I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

  

  Gary Oldman
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• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
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• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
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• I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.

  

  Wayne Rooney
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• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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• I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.

  

  Sam Heughan
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• Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

  

  Samantha Morton
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• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'

  

  Dan Brown
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• Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
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• Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• I love badminton. That's my sport!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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• No matter how much you've done before, you wonder if there will be a light at the end of this particular tunnel. It's the nature of the beast, and it's a part of what compels us. Every movie is a new lesson you learn making your way through it.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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• Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.

  

  Andrae Crouch
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• As long as it's funny, there's no such thing as too far.

  

  Lucy Punch
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• Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

  

  Deng Xiaoping
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• Nobody's impressed back home. All my friends were going, 'Oh right, so you're doing a play up in Leeds? Another depressing one is it? Do you mind if we don't bother coming?' I love that.

  

  Maxine Peake
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