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		All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for?
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Celia S. Friedman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Calista Flockhart 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tavi Gevinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Baz Luhrmann 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Madeleine M. Kunin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oscar Wilde 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Taylor Swift 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming, if indeed it hasn't already done so. . . . People are no longer so easily satisfied by the mere travel impressions of some outsider much like themselves. Instead they gravitate towards writers who actually have lived not simply in, but inside, a location for an extended period, as one lives inside one's clothes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				George Fetherling 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Frans de Waal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rene Magritte 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tammin Sursok 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Wendie Malick 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Celia S. Friedman