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I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

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• I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Age
  • Need
  • Solidarity

• Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Great
  • Coffee
  • Smoking

• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Free
  • Hair
  • Weird

• I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Long
  • House
  • Success

• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Money
  • Think

• I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • More
  • Now
  • Class

• Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • People
  • Life
  • Science

• We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Government
  • Need

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Day
  • Crazy
  • End

• Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Peace
  • Tolerance
  • Sibling

• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Small
  • Very
  • Feet

• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Body

• I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Done
  • Many
  • Liked

• When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • World
  • Work
  • Dream

• I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Love
  • Done
  • Fun

• I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!

  

  Caity Lotz
  • House
  • Hate
  • Imagination

• Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • People
  • Future
  • Powerful

• I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Acting
  • Place
  • Opera

• And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings

• You're free because you don't have to expose yourself, and you can go wild, and let your id completely out of its box, and nobody will see you because you're operating through a surrogate. It's an opportunity to crack open your shell, to melt down yourself, and just let yourself go. It's a form of catharsis for me.

  

  Wayne White
  • Opportunity
  • Crack
  • Shell

• I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

  

  A.M. Homes
  • Night
  • Black