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		I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Frances McDormand 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Park Chan-wook 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yami Gautam 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Canfield 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ralph Gibson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Odette Annable 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am very glad that the criticism is what it is. It is all right that way. In complete opposition to our direction. Otherwise we De Stijl-artists would have nothing to do. I got another impression from your letter, but it is much better this way. There we see again: we have straightly to oppose the whole to-do, à part. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Piet Mondrian 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A caterpillar eats a leaf; a robin eats the caterpillar; a hawk eats the robin. When the plant, caterpillar, robin, and hawk die, they are in turn consumed by decomposers. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				G. Tyler Miller 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I say exactly what I am going to do and how I am going to vote, and I have a 13-year record to back it up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Darryl Glenn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jon Meacham