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Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.

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• The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • History
  • Thousand
  • Riding

• I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Model

• I crave attention and adventure.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • Attention
  • Adventure
  • Crave

• I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Movie
  • You
  • Space

• I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Up
  • Look
  • Definitely

• My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Life
  • True
  • Parents

• Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Like
  • Worst
  • Robots

• I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Music
  • Love
  • Week

• I love being in a courtroom.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Love
  • Being
  • Courtroom

• Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Life
  • Great
  • Nothing

• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Internet

• What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Know
  • Explain

• Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Business
  • Cutting

• I want to remind you today that the greatest Artist of all time created you. He dreamed about you long before you were born, before a single brushstroke of your life took place.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Think
  • Alone

• To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Good
  • You
  • Me

• I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Effective
  • Storyteller
  • Expert

• Nequam illud verbum‘st, Bene vult, nisi qui bene facit.

  

  Plautus

• So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Father
  • Persons
  • Tears

• A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • World
  • May
  • Character

• Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.

  

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