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		I was on the dole once. I loved it. It was only for a couple of years, when I was 20 or 21 and playing in a band. Back then, this was something young folk did - you got your rent paid, a little bit of money to live on, and you loafed around, wrote songs, rehearsed and dreamed of playing Wembley Stadium.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Niven 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I'll never be Jennifer Lawrence or Tom Cruise, someone who can hold a movie and then be charming and charismatic doing promotion. I haven't got what they've got. But at least I'm now comfortable just being myself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Aaron Taylor-Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Warren Cuccurullo 
			 
			
				Duran Duran  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry King 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Natasha Bedingfield 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carine Roitfeld 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Randeep Hooda 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edith Wharton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edmund Burke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Camilo Jose Cela 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dalai Lama 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harold E. Varmus 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I have a Ford Taurus, and I don't care who knows it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Daniel Woodrell 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Earl Blumenauer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I didn't come out as gay; I came out as I don't really believe in gender. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eliot Sumner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Bush 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paul Walker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was on the dole once. I loved it. It was only for a couple of years, when I was 20 or 21 and playing in a band. Back then, this was something young folk did - you got your rent paid, a little bit of money to live on, and you loafed around, wrote songs, rehearsed and dreamed of playing Wembley Stadium. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Niven