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• Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • People
  • Day
  • Myself

• I'm usually in jammies and slippers by 8 P.M.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • Slippers

• I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Think
  • Reading

• I dress according to what suits me and what I am comfortable in.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Comfortable
  • Dress
  • Suits

• We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Change
  • Health
  • Understand

• I doubt there’s ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • True
  • Doubt

• What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • People
  • Reality

• hugging Sharon Merry xmas....now fuck off.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• So come on, I wanna see you baby, come on I don't mean maybe, come on I'm tryin' to make you see That I belong to you and you belong to me

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Baby

• What if it's boring... or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.

  

  Lily Tomlin

• I've worn my share of leopard pink boots to premieres or belts the size of cars. I thought my pink leopard boots were so cool.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Cool
  • Pink

• Would a good friend, a smart friend, encourage you to do something as dishonorable as not pay a bill you're morally and legally obligated to pay? I don't think so.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Smart

• Of course the defenders are trying to be physical with me. They look at me, 7-3, skinny, they try to be physical.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Trying

• I am a Christian.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Christian

• In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tells the story of a man who, after living a hyperkinetic life like those of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, resolves to never leave his room again and to reduce his mental activity to a minimum.

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Life
  • Spanish

• My first record came out while I was a senior in high school, which is dangerous.

  

  Will Smith
  • School
  • High
  • Senior

• When I got the 'Blue Album,' I was 11 years old, 10 years old, and then I convinced my parents to go and get my first drum kit, which was, like, 600 bucks.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Parents
  • Blue

• Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.

  

  Preet Bharara
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

• When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I read 'Peter Pan,' 'The Secret Garden,' the 'Rosemary' books, and Kipling's 'Just So' Stories was one of my favorites. No, I didn't read historical fiction. It didn't exist where I was growing up in China.

  

  Jean Fritz
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Growing

• I want to be a journalist; I want to ask tough questions.

  

  Ainsley Earhardt
  • Want
  • Questions
  • Journalist

• I wanted to be her; I wanted to write her. Red Sonja became anchored in my imagination like a mountain.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • Imagination
  • Red
  • Mountain

• The chance to interact with big shots is drawing scads of aspiring entrepreneurs to Quora, along with venture capitalists and other Valley players.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Drawing

• Whatever the road, it matters only where it leads.

  

  Vladimir Vysotsky
  • Road
  • Matters
  • Leads

• Fuzzy Tally is no more.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
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