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		Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
	
	  Lady Gaga Lady Gaga
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		I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.
	
	  Imelda May Imelda May
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		Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.
	
	  Orlando Bloom Orlando Bloom
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		When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.
	
	  Mallory Ortberg Mallory Ortberg
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		What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
	
	  Oriana Fallaci Oriana Fallaci
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		When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.
	
	  Madeleine L'Engle Madeleine L'Engle
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		It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.
	
	  Kim Dotcom Kim Dotcom
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		What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.
	
	  Chris Bohjalian Chris Bohjalian
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		I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!
	
	  Brian Blessed Brian Blessed
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		You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
	
	  Pierre Bonnard Pierre Bonnard
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		Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.
	
	  Stanley Robert Vinton Stanley Robert Vinton
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		If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.
	
	  Joe Mantegna Joe Mantegna
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		The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
	
	  John Ashcroft John Ashcroft
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		The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life.
	
	  Janet Malcolm Janet Malcolm
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		It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
	
	  Lesley Garrett Lesley Garrett
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		If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.
	
	  Peter Fonda Peter Fonda
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		Seriously, I like to wear hats so I don't get super tan. You have to protect the face.
	
	  Alessandra Ambrosio Alessandra Ambrosio
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		The experience of playing music at a young age really opens up one's mind to different melody in life itself, literally - like, when you've even played a recorder, or whatever, it becomes a lot easier to hear the beauty in a bird's song, or the quiet tune in a gentle rustle of the wind.
	
	  Dave Smalley Dave Smalley