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		I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Michael Bond 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I believe that dogma is often evil. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pat Buckley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Conscience is God present in man. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victor Hugo 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laura Harrier 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		God doesn't know things. He is things. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				D. H. Lawrence 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nathan Fillion 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taylor Swift 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ted Deutch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Driver 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Idina Menzel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are a little less cowboy. But you got to look at yourself in the mirror and ask, whose flag you are under? For Garth Brooks, I'm steel, fiddles, red, white and blue. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Garth Brooks 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tammy Faye Bakker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Simmons 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mason Cooley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I eat my feelings - when I'm happy, when I'm sad. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Chrissy Metz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Apolo Ohno 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Calvin Coolidge 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Michael Bond