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My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.

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• I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Positive

• I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Think
  • Reading
  • Best

• When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Game
  • Want
  • Kind

• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Life
  • Soccer

• My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I want to be like Bradley Cooper when I grow up.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Up
  • Want
  • Grow

• In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Luck
  • Tragedy
  • Few

• Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.

  

  Sally Field
  • History
  • Small
  • Year

• I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Iran
  • North Korea
  • North

• Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Death
  • Unknown

• To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

  

  Walter Scott
  • True
  • Honor
  • Perfection

• Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Great
  • Bad

• I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Nails

• I have to keep testing myself.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Myself
  • Keep
  • Testing

• Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Thinking

• There came from without the hoof-beats of a galloping relative and Aunt Dahlia whizzed in.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Aunt

• She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • She
  • Water
  • Grief

• I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Great
  • Family
  • Kids

• You were the one who made things different, you were the one who took me in. You were the one thing I could count on, above all, you were my friend.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Different
  • Things
  • Made

• Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Bible
  • Teach
  • Only

• The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Party
  • Chinese
  • Name

• TV is really hard to break into. This may be the worst piece of advice, but make an independent film. TV oftentimes takes people who are established. The great benefit of not breaking in yet is purity of voice.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.

  

  John Rocha