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		Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jonathan Maberry 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Benjamin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rani Mukerji 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		True, I was born and raised in Chennai, fluent in Tamil, but essentially, I am a Telugu guy and a Telugu actor. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahesh Babu 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zhu Zhu 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed Miliband 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Aaron Klein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		In my lifeWhy do I smileAt people who I'd much rather kick in the eye ? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I have always wanted to play different kinds of stuff, but it's hard, first to find good material, and then to change people's perception of you so they'll let you do it. I mean, I would really like to play a poet, but once they get this notion of you as a street guy, it's hard to change that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Matt Dillon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the U.S., philanthropic support from entrepreneurs is tightly integrated into the fabric of society, whether it's health care, medical research, or education. Now, slowly, China will know this. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Li Ka-shing 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jerry Saltz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Martha Beck 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jonathan Maberry