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No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.

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• I feel fine as long I'm not running around.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

  

  Eberhard Weber
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• I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
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• Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

  

  Kate Mara
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• Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.

  

  Dane DeHaan
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• Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.

  

  Dan Buettner
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• My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

  

  Quentin Blake
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• I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.

  

  Vincent Cassel
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• You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.

  

  Edie Campbell
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• If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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• I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

  

  Karl Urban
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• On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
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• I didn't know if I was going to mention my period on stage, but then I figured, if Richard Pryor had a period, he would talk about it.

  

  Margaret Cho
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• The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.

  

  Zebulon Pike
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• I love the work of Hayao Miyazaki. 'My Neighbor Totoro' and 'Castle in the Sky' are two of the great films that he's made that I just love.

  

  John Lasseter
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• On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.

  

  Mark Udall
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• I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

  

  Jennifer Egan
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• No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.

  

  Jon Ronson
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