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Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

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• There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Things
  • Try

• I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • House
  • Kind
  • Wood

• I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Never
  • Underestimate

• The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Done
  • Everything

• Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • King
  • Sound

• Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Model
  • Class
  • Lingerie

• Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Knowledge
  • Problem
  • Brain

• We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Reading
  • Thought

• I'm just glad to be able to work.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Work
  • Just
  • Glad

• It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Gay
  • Pleasure

• What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • You
  • Artist

• Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are mentally unbalanced - that are going to try to find you and perhaps cause you harm.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Time
  • Child

• My home has always been show business.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Home
  • Business
  • Always

• I'm 100 percent convinced that Pablo Escobar was a human being. And he was a very interesting one. For sure, he was a very, very, very mean and awful human being in many senses, but he wasn't an alien. He was a person. He had friends; people laughed at his jokes. And he was a very contradictory person as well.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Friends
  • Interesting

• It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Life
  • Think
  • Star

• I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Family
  • Home
  • Proud

• There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • People
  • Women
  • She

• My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

  

  Hunter Parrish
  • Childhood
  • Boring

• Once you've got an inspired spark, you've got to strive. You've gotta keep putting wood on it, so they say, to keep it burning. But then there's the alchemist side of it, that's the fire that's burning but it don't burn.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Fire
  • Inspired
  • Strive

• This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.

  

  James Herbert Keenan Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty
  • Pain
  • Body
  • Illusion

• As a coach, you're never satisfied. But the guys are working hard. We've had more competitive at-bats lately, more competitive games. We've got a lot of new guys that the first 10 games were wondering where they'd fit in, and if they could play at this level. They're starting to feel more comfortable with themselves. We'll get better.

  

  Vance Law
  • Games
  • Guys
  • Fit

• Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

  

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