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I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.

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• Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Winning
  • Losing
  • Margin

• Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Real
  • Moral
  • Start

• I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Up
  • Age
  • Pretty

• I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Real
  • Job
  • Got

• There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • God
  • Job
  • America

• Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Amazing

• When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Movie
  • Change
  • Nice

• The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

  

  Waldemar Januszczak
  • World
  • Men
  • Thinking

• My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Song

• When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Life
  • Real
  • Attention

• We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Beautiful
  • Lake
  • Purple

• Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Wise
  • Young
  • Characters

• Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Dream
  • Education

• Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • City
  • Texas
  • Worth

• Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Great
  • Doing
  • Well

• The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • Problem
  • Islam

• My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Job
  • Interesting
  • Quality

• I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

  

  Ellen Wong
  • Inspired

• I feel really different from other musicians.

  

  Mary Timony
  • Different

• You've got to have the right attire for the right event. I attend a lot of dinners, a lot of concerts, and I have to be on the red carpet; each has its own dress code, and I have to be prepared. Jeans and a hoodie are great for a concert, but a dinner party?

  

  Amar'e Stoudemire
  • Great
  • Party
  • Red

• It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Possibilities
  • Apparent
  • Aeroplane

• My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Life
  • Road
  • Magic

• I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.

  

  John C. Reilly